Tag Archives: responses
significant cultural processes and productions that come to mind for you?
The other day I found some old papers (as you do). Three years ago I had emailed a number of people (see below), attempting a small random ‘survey’ (very Sydney-centred, I admit) to prepare for a presentation at UTS called: “Facing Fear: Community Anti-Racism after September 11, 2001”. ::———-:: 16 Nov 2004 dear friends i […]
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 […]
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 […]
3arabi Mapping 
A.I. on ‘ghost flights’…
… my first thought on reading about the helicopter ride that Alissar took – and which she has no memory of, no evidence for – reminded me of the other ‘ghost flights’ that i’ve been thinking about lately. Those ghost flights are the more sinister kind – those that ‘render’ people to institutions of pain […]