tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330389462024-02-20T08:16:08.417+02:00I Heart Cairo.anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-51467145618368322542009-10-11T21:26:00.003+02:002009-10-11T21:30:02.681+02:00For the Restless AcademicsTwo links that have proven to be indispensable for academic resources, readings, analysis, discussion, video and audio. A.aaaarg.org particularly grabs my attention because it has a huge library of PDFs academic resources--from books, articles, interivews, author collections--that are really helpful and up to date.http://discoursenotebook.com/http://a.aaaarg.org/anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-65570023117580924032009-10-11T21:21:00.003+02:002009-10-11T21:25:03.566+02:00Surfacing's Second Issue is OutI don't mean for the title to sound like an advertisment. I guess its a fancier advertisment...a press release if you will.
<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } A:link { so-language: zxx } --> Surfacing is an interdisciplinary journal for gender in the global South published by the Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women's Studies at the American University anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-22286960193921567282009-03-13T18:26:00.002+02:002009-03-13T18:39:25.707+02:00Experiments from a God-awful KitchenIt's been two months almost that I've been living as a grad student in NYC. So cooking your own meal is one of the things I've been coming more to grips with. Cooking has always been enjoyable for me, but I've never considered myself to "know" how to cook. (As you'll find out when you read this recipe). This really isn't to say that my kitchen is awful but to say that my experiments are basedanthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-33820687759018178022008-12-28T15:33:00.002+02:002008-12-28T15:38:07.835+02:00Look out for Rania Malky @ The Daily StarRania Malky, "Chief Editor" at the Daily Star (an English daily that comes out in Egypt) writes weekly editorials for the newspaper. Her own articles plus the large focus of her newspaper coverage is sensitive to human rights interest stories and is followed-up on quite diligently. Rania (no I don't know her personally, but I'm not going to say Malky says...) wrote an editorial on Islam Badr, anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-14097030408072641362008-12-25T12:29:00.002+02:002008-12-25T12:42:04.871+02:00The Search for the Better Sheikh...My search for the best sheikh in Cairo, after four years of almost-always (I never get out of bed when I'm out of Cairo to go to the prayers) going to Friday prayers, is now being refocused to my move to New York (yes I'm moving to NYC mid-January). There are several reasons I go to the Friday sermons in the mosque next to our house, of which I won't really delve into. I just wanted to write a anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-12696835852340947532008-12-17T12:28:00.002+02:002008-12-17T12:31:08.515+02:00My Dear CountryThought these lyrics are fascinating. It's "My Dear Country" by Norah Jones, I've been entranced by the song for over a year now. Just thought I'd share it."My Dear Country" 'Twas Halloween and the ghosts were out,And everywhere they'd go, they shout,And though I covered my eyes I knew,They'd go away. But fear's the only thing I saw,And three days later 'twas clear to all,That nothing is as anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-37610779931082465822008-12-17T10:55:00.001+02:002008-12-17T10:57:28.732+02:00Waiting for the other shoe to fall...I think this is funny. It's from the "Letters to the Editor" in Int'l Herald Tribune's December 17th issue.Throwing Shoes at Bush Regarding the article "Shoe insult to Bush resounds in Arab World": As suprprising as the fact that an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President Bush was his ability to duck them. If Ronald Reagan was the "teflon" president and Bill Clinton was "Slick Willy", anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-64509431187049551272008-12-02T08:41:00.002+02:002008-12-02T08:49:29.546+02:00If you can't stand the cheese, move over...I find myself struggling from day to day to determine if I'm content with the way my life's going. I say "content" cos I don't necessarily think I have to be happy or satisfied but alert and decisive about where my life is going. And below is the conclusion I get from these daily convoluted thought struggles...I still have faith in the good around me. Friends, family, random guys at the anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-80105600735985031822008-12-01T11:44:00.002+02:002008-12-01T12:01:03.789+02:00Oscar Buzz: What's the Buzz Mean?Feel like when we talk about Oscar Buzz its usually the gossip, reviews, general brouhaha that occurs around the Oscar. But there are at least two others kinds of Buzz I can think of honesty:1. Buzz--did you know that the general consumption of alchohol and drugs at even pre-during-and-post the Oscars is estimated to be close to the GDP of Somalia? No, I made that up, but chances are it might anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-56518956977258014472008-11-25T10:33:00.002+02:002008-11-25T10:39:51.325+02:00The White Album Turns 40From one of my favorite "Culture Blogs"--Open Culture. (www.oculture.com )The Beatles: Podcasts From YesterdayPodcasts often have a nice way of bringing the past back to life. Beatles fans will undoubtedly appreciate several audio files dedicated to the Fab Four. Let’s start with a particularly good one. Rolling Stone Magazine, as part of a web feature called Lennon Lives Foreover, has released aanthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-74412694379958310222008-11-20T09:56:00.003+02:002008-11-20T10:01:02.200+02:00All of us do this: Extremist RhetoricWhy are so many people drawn to white hot rhetoric like white moths to a flame? In looking at this phenomenon in what I call “extremist rhetoric” in public discourse, I want to consider three politically relevant questions. I’m looking at extremist rhetoric in public discourse in the context of a (shall we say) burgeoning democracy. What makes it alluring at all? How can it imperil democraticanthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-26301286934866316502008-11-11T23:07:00.000+02:002008-11-11T23:08:30.390+02:00Genocide according to the UN makes alot of things around us genocide!Does the legal definition of genocide, a definition that so many of us knowingly use to argue what is and what is not genocide, a definition that precludes the possibility of calling the Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, or what's happening in Palestine now, genocide?Can we all take the time to look up the UN definition properly and understand that all the acts that were questionably genocide anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-92212944871489985292008-11-11T23:04:00.003+02:002008-11-11T23:07:55.765+02:00Old Folds for a Musically-Challenged GenerationI like to make CDs. Sometimes, at work, when no one is around, I'll take an empty CD (I said take, not steal) and just spend 10-20 minutes making a CD for friend. Recently, the habit's developed into creating my own "Greatest Hits" 15 CD compilation. Which obviously makes me insane. But who isn't today? Here's a suggested compilation for Oldies Fans. I recommend, particularly for those who're anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-41862690136105756802008-11-11T22:57:00.003+02:002008-11-11T23:00:16.938+02:00So you think you can 'end violence against women?'Ban Ki Moon, the new sparsely talked about Secertary General has an online campaign to rally signatures to end Violence Against Women. In one year, he wanted a million signatures (if you're interested go to www.unifem.org to sign their signatures book) and I think he's about 400,000 signatures in and he's got until the end of this month (November 25th to be specefic). Here's my suggestion: anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-85852248675686316772008-11-11T22:52:00.002+02:002008-11-11T22:56:38.099+02:00Our Public Transcript on GenderI said in an earlier post that Egypt scores, in the World Value Survey, highly on: religion on top (97%), idea of women staying at home because housework is gratifying more than paid work (97%), and the 70% of the youth said they would fight for their country.So a friend of mine said that men in Egypt would fight a religious war to keep women at home. Our public ideas on gender is less sensitiveanthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-7370283430644591672008-11-11T22:37:00.000+02:002008-11-11T22:40:00.777+02:00Sexual Harassment as ClassedJust a quick thought on sexual harassment (although I don't want to add to the craze developing around this important issue): Why is it that the forms of violence against women that we focus on are ones that are narrated only by one of the several social classes in Egypt? Why is it that we give importance to this form of gendered violence specifically and not think of the other multi-faceted anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-38435712424827110782008-11-05T16:27:00.002+02:002008-11-05T16:42:09.495+02:00Direction, Direction: The Night of ElectionA good friend of mine did something that when people our age get to do it, I'm very interested to help out. She got in touch with al Jazeera International to send them video feeds from her mobile camera phone by taping some Egyptians impressions of the elections. So she send a group of us an email inviting us first to breakfast to discuss our opinions and then last night hosted us (actually heranthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-59251515112574026682008-11-04T10:17:00.004+02:002008-11-04T11:06:20.635+02:00Sexual Harassment CaseWhen I first heard that Noha Roushy had filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the man who harassed her, I thought to myself "this is good news." Regardless of how I feel that sexual harassment as a topic has turned into a national debate with its own scary obsession, sexual harassment as a phenemenon does need to be addressed and finally someone has managed to have the patience and anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-527165119509211792008-10-23T11:24:00.002+02:002008-10-23T11:28:09.951+02:00Sexual Harassment Court CaseTalks about the recent case of Noha Rushdie, who finally managed to raise a lawsuit against a harasser. The text below is the press release circulated by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights--good read and gives some background. PS: It was also on the front page of Al Ahram a couple of days ago (displayed proudly of course). Court Sentence Restores Women's Confidence in the Law (Cairo, anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-15614805352467066572008-10-23T11:16:00.000+02:002008-10-23T11:17:18.426+02:00Good PR StrategyGot this from Open Culture--A RSS Feed I subscribe to. Until November 24, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, based in the Netherlands, is offering 10 symphonies as free downloads. You have to register, but once you do, you can download high quality performances of Beethoven, Mahler, Brahms, and more.anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-9074185548949657382008-10-21T22:51:00.003+02:002008-10-21T23:26:24.961+02:00Men in Egypt Would Fight a Religious War to Keep Women at HomeA friend shared in class today her story of this survey, the World Value Survey, which is a survey that takes socio-cultural beliefs, attitudes, and mores and attempts to make statistics out of them based on very elaborate questionnaires. Egypt scores, in the World Value Survey, highly on: religion on top (97%), idea of women staying at home because housework is gratifying more than paid work (97anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-20431294070567254862008-10-19T09:58:00.002+02:002008-10-19T12:54:56.958+02:00Letters to Amiga Pt. 1It's 9:30 in the morning and I have my cup of coffee in my hand and my leg is numb. I'm sitting here thinking of how much I envy/admire/am proud of my friend Janan for being in New York. On my way to work (yes, the driver takes me to work--bourgeois life suits us all don't it?) I was reading this book called "Creative Reckoning" by Jessica Winengar. Excellent book. Very much written in the anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-26695318930694023162008-09-10T10:53:00.002+02:002008-09-10T11:01:03.554+02:00Chantal AkermanGot this on email and thought it was interesting. My friend Kiri would probably like this but then again if I tell him he might roll his eyes and scoff. You never know with him.This exploration/homage arrives in the form of a lecture/conversation, breaking some conventions, not unlike the object/subject of the event, Chantal Akerman, filmmaker and video artist. Two Akerman experts discuss her anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-32655587984538299502008-08-17T14:17:00.003+03:002008-08-17T14:19:46.224+03:00George Orwell opens his blogOfficially inaugurated on August 9th, 2008 and started on August 9th, 1938, this blog will post regularly George Orwell's blog. Could be good for the coffee in the morning where your mind still isn't working and you can sneak in three minutes of 'revolutionary' ideas before the silencing critics of your mind get to work :)http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/The Daily Telegraph has a good article anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33038946.post-79361206326477913002008-08-17T10:53:00.002+03:002008-08-17T11:00:12.395+03:00Surfacing: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Gender in the Global SouthSurfacing is a journal that just published its 1st issue. Being one of the people who've worked on it, I'm very excited by the refreshing amounts of possible ways this journal can go and the more input we recieve from a community concerned with the discussions, actions, and colloborations on 'gender'--in the broadest sense of the world, should follow this journal. For those really excited by anthraligyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697293363663347371noreply@blogger.com4