Poetry Reading by Dr. Samar Habib
May 2, 2011
The Reading will include poems from Habib’s 2008 book “Islands in Space” as well as some new and unpublished work. Samar Habib is an Affiliated Scholar at UC Berkeley and a visiting Professor at San Francisco State University. Venue: San Francisco State University Humanities Bldg 587, 1600 Holloway Avenue (corner of Tapias Drive), San Francisco. Read moire about Habib's poetry reading.
Book Launch Reading and Celebration: Arab and Arab American Feminisms edited by: Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, Nadine Naber
April 26, 2011
April 26, featuring: Rabab Abdulhadi, Janaan Attia, Emanne Bayoumi, Happy Hyder, Huda Jadallah, Randa Jarrar, Nadine Naber, Zeina Zaatari at Modern Times Bookstore, 888 Valencia St. San Francisco. Co-Sponsors: AROC and Sunbula. And April 28th featuring: Rabab Abdulhadi, Happy Hyder, Randa Jarrar, Zeina Zaatari at San Francisco State University, Ethnic Studies and Psychology Building, EP 116, organized by Race and Resistance Studies, SFSU. Read more about the Arab and Arab American Feminisms book.
Report Back from Egypt by Students Shiva Bayat and Heba Qutami
April 26, 2011
SFSU Alum Heba Qutami (BA Communications) and undergraduate student, Shiva Bayat (Fine Arts Major, Race & Resistance Studies Minor) will discuss their recent experiences in Egypt. Qutami participated in Tahrir Square encampment pre- and post the ouster of the Mubarak regime while Bayat spent her spring break assisting a scholar in her field research on the Egyptian revolution. Read more about the Egypt report back event.
Conference: Islamophobia Production and Re-Defining Global "Security" Agenda for the 21st Century.
April 21, 2011
In a July 31st, 2010 article in The Huffington Post M. J. Rosenberg summed-up possibly for the first time and in clear fashion the primary motivations behind the increasing intensity of the Islamophobes’ campaign by observing that “it is not because they are instinctive bigots;” rather “they believe that the more acceptance there is of Muslims here at home, the less reflexive hatred there will be for Muslims abroad.”
Panel: Gender and 'the Violence of Everyday Life' in Palestine
April 19, 2011
This panel examines the multitudinous ways in which occupation, and thereby violence, permeates Palestinian life with profound impact on traditional gender roles and ever-increasing demands on Palestinian women. Read more about the Gender and Violence panel.
AMED’s Commemoration of the Women Herstory Month: Popular Protest, Anti-Colonial Resistance, and Gender Justice
March 2, 2011
Join Arab & Muslim Ethnicities Diasporas Initiative & Richard Oakes Multicultural Center in “Popular Protest, Anti-Colonial Resistance, and Gender Justice”; A Forum on Women and Politics in Arab and Muslim Communities, March 2-3, 2011 at the Richard Oakes Multicultural Center, Cesar Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University. Read more about Women Hersotry Month 2011.
“Libyan Uprising: A Peoples History of Struggle against Colonialism & Tyranny”- A Teach-in.
March 1, 2011
Film screening of “Lion of the Desert” – a 1981 Mustafa Akkad feature film on the life and struggle of Omar Mukhtar, the leader of the Libyan resistance against Mussolini’s colonial occupation, starring Anthony Quinn and Irene Pappas, and panel discussion with Wafa Faris, Libyan Educator and Community Activist.
“Palestinian Queer Activists Talk Politics” Colloquium
February 16, 2011
Organized by the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative's (AMED), Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Global South: Arab and Muslim Communities Colloquium Series. Co-sponsored by the Race and Resistance Studies Program, General Union of Palestinian Studies and SFSU Women's Center.
A Teach-In and Emergency Meeting: “The Anatomy of Politics & Collective Action in Arab & Muslim Communities”
February 1, 2011
The Arab & Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative (AMED) is organizing a public teach-in to analyze the rapid developments in the Arab world, we will offer a historical background and contextualize the current developments. Speakers will be available for interviews during the day, if interested please call or email. Read more about the Anatomy Politics.
AMED Courses – Spring 2011
ETHS 630 [01] - Palestine: Ethnic Studies Perspective
ETHS 566 [01] - Gender and Modernity in Arab and Muslim Communities
ETHS 435 [01] - National Security and the Racialization of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S.