Category 2007-2008 archive
What critical questions would you ask of yourself and your own work?
Following on from my own dry conversations in September about unfolding an ‘Arab-centred’ approach to research and to discussion about cultural production, I took the opportunity to document a conversation with an Arab woman artist, in the site of her latest solo exhibition. (Thanks FK for being open and trusting. Thanks to AG for the […]
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.
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 […]
3arabi Mapping 
paula on ‘the politics of bellydancing’…
“… well it just goes to demonstrate that you can resurrect cultural work from the early nineties and still be relevant! 14 years ago a group of arab women produced a performance work (with mostly sold out nights in both sydney and canberra) called the politics of belly dancing. in this piece, issues around cultural […]