Author Archives: Alissar Chidiac
AS wrote on Mon 10 Sept
I’ve skimmed through …. I am not sure about some points as they look like a summary of some detailed discussions. What is “cultural informant”? I personally believe that as Arabs, and other people who were colonised, we need to detonate our old concepts about ourselves and the West and start looking at things in […]
nizar hassan…
Earlier this year, as a guest of the 2007 Sydney Arab Film Festival, Nizar Hassan, from Palestine, spoke strongly (and dogmatically) around some issues of Arab-centred work processes. I flicked him an email last week inviting a few words towards this 3arabi discussion, and unfortunately he said that he was “in deep deep coma” still […]
triggers…
::: ::: ::: ::: ::: to focus on working towards ‘arab-centred’ approaches, why not share some stories from your own experience – whether practical or theoretical … ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: or ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: what do you want to see come out of this initiative? what have you learned from other […]
e.phemera…
a couple days ago, a throw-away line: ‘And is there any value in ephemeral material (such as old programmes, posters, reviews)?’ and ironcally this evening, i went to an event marking ’30 years of passionate dissent’ ‘LET THE WALLS SPEAK: POLITICAL POSTER EXHIBITION’ http://jura.org.au/node/517 the walls were full of strongly-coloured hand-screenprinted posters from the 1970s […]
hard-centred? soft-centred? arab-centred?
What do I mean by ‘arab-centred’ anyway? (soft centre? hard centre? take a bite and give it to your mum…) Instead of questions continuing to raise more questions, why not reflect on something that is ‘arab-centred’ – and discuss why, from the inside, as an insider… Yesterday found myself inside a discussion that progressed from […]
khaled on Arab-Australian Social/Cultural Producer
wallah, akhbar ajdeed ya khaled … i.e. new proposals on “Arab-Australian Social/Cultural Producer”… the funding proposal text in your ‘cut and paste’ brings together many familiar discussions and wish-lists (as well as some previous plans) of recent years, so of course it’s a good idea!! (i am interested in working on a local independent arab […]
… on being and arab-centredness…
yahala yahala yahala… it’s already 1 september 2007 … ouff!! okay, so let’s talk about one of my current diversions: how to develop arab-centred research methods? on conceptual levels, as well as in generating reflective questions and discussions with artists about their / our work… while the 3arabi project specifically has a focus on contemporary […]
3arabi Mapping 
AI wrote on Tues 11 Sept
Thanks for sending me the link to your blog… lots of food for thought. I’m in the process of reworking a paper that engages with Tuhiwai Smith’s work and the implications/possibilities for Muslim centred research.