Feminist Transgressions in the Postcolonial Arab World (1999)
In the past twenty-five years Arab women have taken great strides through the freedoms that postcoloniality have brought to them. Unfortunately, it was wars and struggles that allowed and encouraged women to begin their “transgressions” into the man’s world; watching Algerian women be marginalized as a result of their silence during their civil war, other […]
Mapping Peace (1999)
If we care about not remaining intellectuals without history, we must write the unspeakable.” These words were written by a Lebanese novelist and journalist in the midst of civil war, in an effort to encourage Lebanese artists to speak up about their experiences so the whole world could know the horrors of the war. Thirteen […]
Mediterranean Thinking: From Netizen to Medizen (1999)
The Mediterranean has traditionally been approached from a geographical and historical perspective that has collapsed the material and political differences between water and land. This conflation has been instrumental in homogenizing the diversity of this interregional arena and turning it into a geopolitical area. Aquacentric thinking brings such approaches to the Mediterranean into question. Cybertheory, […]