Lazy Links
May. 21st, 2010 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ajnabiehI am just finishing up my grading for the semester, which means I'm rather on the edge about everything--it's a period of high burnout and frustration. (Though, thank you, student who titled your response paper "My Final Response Paper: What I’ve learned of Resistance and an Opportunity to Call Out People Who Believe in Radical Semiotics," for making me feel better for quite a while.) So, here are some linky links. How lazy am I going to be? I'm not even going to bother to code them. DW will make them clickable via magic, right? Awesome.
OFF TOPIC:
FEMINIST HULK
http://twitter.com/feministhulk
This has nothing to do with Arab-Americans, but it is made of awesome.
Arabic Literature (in English)
http://arablit.wordpress.com/
A blog about what gets translated from Arabic into English, which is a topic that fascinates and angers me. Lots of good book review-y things.
At-Tuwani, A Graphic Novel
http://sites.google.com/site/tuwanigraphicnovel/home
A project looking for support, to create a graphic novel dealing with the situation in a village in the southern West Bank.
Scenes of Israeli-Palestinian Violence Foster Stereotypes for Teens
http://www.ur.umich.edu/0607/Apr09_07/12.shtml
Interesting study (cited by one of my students in an annotated bibliography) point to how people interpret ambiguous images in line with their own political allegiances.
A Web Smaller Than a Divide - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/opinion/16Antoon.html
It's not the Latin-character dominance of the internet that's a problem for users in the Arab world; it's access, which is hard to come by for the poor and uneducated.
MENA: International Day Against Homophobia Celebrated - Global Voices
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/05/19/mena-international-day-against-homophobia-marked/
What it says on the tin. (Who wrote this in their 3W4DW linkspams? I really like it.)
What Reality Television Tells Us About the Arab World: An Interview with Marwan Kraidy (two parts)
http://henryjenkins.org/2010/05/marwan_kraidy.html
http://henryjenkins.org/2010/05/what_reality_television_tells.html
An interesting read, which put Kraidy's new book on my to-read list for the summer. I think I should combine it with finally reading Marc Lynch's book on Arab satellite news. Sigh.
Culture can block Arab-American women seeking health care
http://www.freep.com/article/20100516/FEATURES01/5160315/1322/Culture-can-block-Arab-American-women-seeking-health-care
This issue came on my radar because of Project AMBER, a breast-cancer awareness program in the Arab community in New York. In other news, can we stop talking about "culture" like this title does? I'm just over it. It means nothing, and doesn't address any of the issues. Cranky postmodernist is cranky.
Haters Gonna Hate: the Backlash Against Miss USA - Muslimah Media Watch
http://muslimahmediawatch.org/2010/05/haters-gonna-hate-the-backlash-against-miss-usa/
Today In Ridiculous Responses To Miss USA Rima Fakih - Jezebel
http://jezebel.com/5542447/today-in-ridiculous-responses-to-miss-usa-rima-fakih
Two cheers for Rima Fakih - Comment Is Free
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/may/19/miss-usa-2010-rima-fakih
Miss USA 2010, It’s Complicated - AltMuslimah
http://www.altmuslimah.com/a/b/r/3727/
OFF TOPIC:
FEMINIST HULK
http://twitter.com/feministhulk
This has nothing to do with Arab-Americans, but it is made of awesome.
Arabic Literature (in English)
http://arablit.wordpress.com/
A blog about what gets translated from Arabic into English, which is a topic that fascinates and angers me. Lots of good book review-y things.
At-Tuwani, A Graphic Novel
http://sites.google.com/site/tuwanigraphicnovel/home
A project looking for support, to create a graphic novel dealing with the situation in a village in the southern West Bank.
Scenes of Israeli-Palestinian Violence Foster Stereotypes for Teens
http://www.ur.umich.edu/0607/Apr09_07/12.shtml
Interesting study (cited by one of my students in an annotated bibliography) point to how people interpret ambiguous images in line with their own political allegiances.
A Web Smaller Than a Divide - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/opinion/16Antoon.html
It's not the Latin-character dominance of the internet that's a problem for users in the Arab world; it's access, which is hard to come by for the poor and uneducated.
MENA: International Day Against Homophobia Celebrated - Global Voices
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/05/19/mena-international-day-against-homophobia-marked/
What it says on the tin. (Who wrote this in their 3W4DW linkspams? I really like it.)
What Reality Television Tells Us About the Arab World: An Interview with Marwan Kraidy (two parts)
http://henryjenkins.org/2010/05/marwan_kraidy.html
http://henryjenkins.org/2010/05/what_reality_television_tells.html
An interesting read, which put Kraidy's new book on my to-read list for the summer. I think I should combine it with finally reading Marc Lynch's book on Arab satellite news. Sigh.
Culture can block Arab-American women seeking health care
http://www.freep.com/article/20100516/FEATURES01/5160315/1322/Culture-can-block-Arab-American-women-seeking-health-care
This issue came on my radar because of Project AMBER, a breast-cancer awareness program in the Arab community in New York. In other news, can we stop talking about "culture" like this title does? I'm just over it. It means nothing, and doesn't address any of the issues. Cranky postmodernist is cranky.
Haters Gonna Hate: the Backlash Against Miss USA - Muslimah Media Watch
http://muslimahmediawatch.org/2010/05/haters-gonna-hate-the-backlash-against-miss-usa/
Today In Ridiculous Responses To Miss USA Rima Fakih - Jezebel
http://jezebel.com/5542447/today-in-ridiculous-responses-to-miss-usa-rima-fakih
Two cheers for Rima Fakih - Comment Is Free
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/may/19/miss-usa-2010-rima-fakih
Miss USA 2010, It’s Complicated - AltMuslimah
http://www.altmuslimah.com/a/b/r/3727/