Word: nasserism
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...would anyone ever call someone a vegetable? It’s just a funny question,” says Latif F. Nasser, a second-year graduate student in History of Science, describing the inspiration behind the three-part scholarly short he submitted to the festival. The film explores the phenomenon of giving people labels as vegetables—for example, coma patients in vegetative states and bums as “coach potatoes...
...Nasser says that prior to taking the graduate-level equivalent of Kuriyama’s Culture and Belief 11 class, he had made a few short films, but did not have any real experience to speak of. Nonetheless, he found himself thrilled by his newfound cinematic ambitions. “It’s not that hard, which is wonderful. You get perfectionist and obsessive about certain things,” he says. “You can really lose yourself...
...Nasser agrees that the novelty and excitement of the short film makes it an appealing genre...
...dismantle the terrorist infrastructures of Hamas and Hezbollah. The Crimson staff also incorrectly suggests that the U.S. has, over the decades, uncritically given Israel carte blanche to pursue its military objectives. However, it is in part thanks to U.S. efforts that Israel did not oust the radical nationalist Nasser regime in 1956, or march on Damascus in 1973, or eliminate Yassir Arafat...
...likely to precipitate a power struggle among several of his 17 surviving brothers as they maneuver to replace him. (The late Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, former U.A.E. president and the country's founding father, had 19 sons from several different wives. Another of his sons, Sheik Nasser, was killed in a helicopter crash in June...