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, […]
Feminist Transgressions in the Postcolonial Arab World (1999)
Feminist Transgressions
Ayyam Min Hayati: The Prison Memoirs of a Muslim Sister (1995)
Zaynab al-Ghazali was arrested in the 1960’s on charges that she was allegedly plotting to overthrow the president. In 1977, al-Ghazali published her autobiography of those years of incarceration, feeling that she owed it to the Islam and the Islamic world. The memoir, Days from My Life, is a model for pious Muslim women seeking independence and […]