AMED Colloquium: Saving Brown Queers from Brown Communities and Brown Women from Muslim Communities? Deconstructing Colonialism, Homophobia, Islamophobia, and Racism.
October 13, 2010
The colloquium is part of the Gender and Sexuality studies in the Global South Program of AMED and is organized as part of the 2012 Graduate Seminar in Ethnic Studies. The venue is Richard Oakes Multicultural Center (ROMC), Cesar Chavez Student Center, SFSU.
National Week to Defend Ethnic Studies – Film Screening and Post Screening Discussion: The Battle of Algiers.
October 7, 2010
Speakers: Dr. Derethia DuVal, Juanita Tamayo Lott, Professor Dan Gonzales, Dr. Roberto Rivera, Moderator/Discussant: Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, The Arab and Muslim Ethnicities, and Diasporas Initiative, Race and Resistance Studies.
Islamophobia Symposium
September 15, 2010
The symposium will discuss the PATRIOT ACT, attacking Muslim Communities, the recent stabbing of a Bangladeshi Taxi Driver in New York, vandalizing of Muslim Sites, entrapment, and infiltration at mosques and community centers.
AMED launches "Gender and Sexuality in the Global South: The Arab and Muslim Communities"
March 4, 2010
Palestinian Ambassador Somaia Barghouti, Iranian Professor Shouleh Vatanabadi from NYU, Iraqi Doctor Dahlia Wasfi and Professor Rabab Abdulhadi of the Race and Resistance Department, and the senior scholar at AMED will join Wednesday, March 10th at the Jack Adams Hall in the Cezar Chavez Student Center in discussing women's conditions, challenges and activism in Palestine, Iran, and Iraq as well as in the Arab and Muslim diasporas. More about the Gender and Sexuality launch event.