Word: arabism
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Professor Louise Cainkar led a talk yesterday on her new work “Homeland Insecurity: The Arab-American Experience after 9/11” as part of a series of “Islam in the West” seminars organized by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies here at Harvard. This effort is one of the reasons that led the Center for Middle Eastern Studies to expand and build an interdisciplinary study of the Muslim culture, said Jocelyne Cesari, director of the Islam in the West Institute, a part of the Center. Harvard students and other affiliates have...
...boycott. Politics aside (which it never is at a film festival), the protesters ignored Israel's recent emergence as a vital national cinema - and that many of the country's prize-winning films, from The Band's Visit to Waltz with Bashir, take a complex humanist approach to Arab-Israeli relations. That is certainly the case with Samuel Maoz's Lebanon, which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and was one of Toronto's unarguable hits. (See TIME's Photos: Waltz With Bashir, and Other Animated Films For Adults...
...foremost pieces of art.” The way in which Mograbi’s politics inform his art has been a source of contention among critics. A notable scene in his 2005 film, “Avenge But One of My Two Eyes,” features Arab men forced to stand on rocks by Israeli soldiers. Many have observed parallels between this scene and the images from Abu Ghraib that dominated international media at the time the movie was released. According to Mograbi, however, there are no such parallels, and those who view his movies should refrain from...
Many first-generation Arab Americans regard intelligence work as a deeply dishonorable profession. After all, most of them fled to the U.S. from countries where intelligence agencies, or mukhabarat in Arabic, are instruments of repression, used by unpopular regimes to brutally suppress dissent. And the CIA's reputation is doubly dubious: it is tainted by association with many Arab mukhabarat, and has a history of interfering (often ham-fistedly) in Middle Eastern politics...
Younger and second-generation Arab Americans may not be so reflexively opposed to intelligence work, but few would be willing to risk ostracism by their elders. "If I even hinted to my father that I was considering becoming a spy, he would disown me," said one young man at the dinner, who asked not to be named. "He would be ashamed to tell his friends that his son was working...