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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 465–489.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Umayyah Cable Abstract This article focuses on the life experience and political activism of Palestinian American lesbian activist Huda Jadallah as a representative example of how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT/queer) Arab Americans came out to both queer communities and Arab...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 110–132.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., a U.S.-based organization of Palestinian, Arab, and American feminists, was established to promote an agenda for Palestinian social and political liberation. The praxis of the collective, as stated on the official website, is directed by two analytical frameworks: “anti-colonialism and life-affirming...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 112–126.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Lisa Suhair Majaj Abstract This article situates the Palestinian right of return within the context of Palestinian-American literary reflections and the intersection of women’s and human rights. Providing a brief history of Palestinian dispossession and the struggle for return, it explores...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 113–126.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Lisa Suhair Majaj MEMOIR On Writingand Return Palestinian-American Reflections LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ I havelearnedtheworld'shistories, andmineareamon9them. My handsareopenandempty: theweaponyouplacein themisyourown. -from "Claims" Return-to what was lost when the state oflsrael was first created...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 443–465.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Abstract This article explores the possibilities of distinctly queer and Muslim futures rooted not only in Muslim diaspora communities but in the Muslim world itself. The Palestinian intifadas of 1987 and 2000 are the author’s primary inspiration, whereas the future becomes...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 491–503.
Published: 01 October 2021
... excludability from allegedly more progressive nations. In a piece called “Reflections of a Genderqueer Palestinian American Lesbian Mother,” Huda Jadallah (founder of one of the first public networks for Arab lesbians in California in the 1980s) writes: Growing up I was always keenly aware of being...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2024
... a range of interventions into conversations about Indigeneity. Though the case of the stateless Palestinian people fighting for Indigenous self-determination problematizes a paradigm that refuses to consider the state as an instrument for social benefits, in the wake of the manifested interdependence...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 397–412.
Published: 01 October 2022
... Israel “a medical apartheid” state (Rabbani 2021 ). These measures included Israel’s obfuscation of Palestinian health-related activities in their communities (e.g., the destruction of sanitization stations in Hebron), refusing to improve poor health-care accessibility for Palestinians, failing...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 209–219.
Published: 01 March 2006
... attempting to see the foreign office on behalf of her son. And Mrs. el Banna, Palestinian wife ofJamil el Banna, who was kidnapped by the Americans in Gambia and is still in Guantanamo despite even the interrogators telling him, "We know you are innocent," is one of a number of women who have impressively...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 372–393.
Published: 01 October 2019
... with “a buried song” (198), she counterposes Puerto Rican, Ashkenazi Jewish, and Palestinian images of resilience against state violence, drawing a Latin American Ashkenazi Jewish vision of transnational alliance with Palestinian liberation. Followed with “Ending Poem,” a revised version of “I Am What I Am...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 December 2016
... gained momentum, social media campaigns like #Palestine2Ferguson connected the violent erasure of Palestinian lives in Gaza to the mistreatment of black people in Ferguson and the U.S. at large. The mutual experiences of struggle and marginalization between African Americans and Palestinians created...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 261–270.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., Muslims in India, the Uyghurs in China, and Palestinians in Israel/Palestine all suggest a globally circulating discourse of anti-Muslim racism that provides a new intensity to long-standing local conflicts, infusing them with new life and contributing to international indifference over the fate...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 151–173.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Hill . 2004 . Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism . New York : Routledge . Dabashi Hamid , ed. 2006 . Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema . London : Verso . Daiya Kavita . 2008 . Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and National...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 241–245.
Published: 01 September 2001
...: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminismsa,nd theState(Duke University Press, 1999). LISASUHAIR MAJAJis a Palestinian-American writer and critic. She is coeditor of GoingGlobal:TheTransnational Receptionof Third WorldWomen Writers(2000), of EtelAdnan: CriticalRglections(forthcoming), and of IntersectionsG: enderN...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 240–266.
Published: 01 October 2023
... survived attempts to erase the history of oppressions, a feminist epistemology grounded in the praxis of quilting also can be restorative. Why quilting? The history of African American quilting is connected to grassroots anti-oppression activism, and community labor, all of which resist globalization...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 168–194.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of the Palestinian intifada and the Israeli invasion and occupation of Palestinian territories; and in February 2002 the attacks by Hindu fundamentalists on Muslims in Gujarat that resulted in the murder of some 2000 Muslims, the displacement of a further 100,000 people, and the destruction of 20,000 homes...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): ix–xii.
Published: 01 September 2001
.... For example, Subramaniam interrogates the "national rhetoric surrounding alien and exotic plants and animals" and shows how this rhetoric both shifts and is simultaneously shaped by the "xenophobia rampant in contemporary anxieties about a changing world." Lisa Suhair Majaj, a self-defined Palestinian...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2004
... that have shaped ethnic conflict in the Balkans in favor of representations of NATO heroics. DOMESTICATING NATO s WAR IN KOSOVO/A 13 The lack of references to Albanian politics ignores the mmplicated and hybrid nature of Albanian identities and political activisms. Moreover, it promotes American national...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 297–305.
Published: 01 October 2024
... recognition and rights within the multiple identity-based communities we belong to when we do/cannot conform to their norms is clear in “Coming Out for Community, Coming Out for the Cause: Queer Arab American Activism in the 1990s” by Umayyah Cable. This essay analyzes Palestinian American lesbian activist...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 92–111.
Published: 01 September 2001
... and Sinn Fein, of the Palestinian movement against Israeli occupation, of the Viet Cong and North Vietnam, and of the various Central American guerrilla movements. Yet I'm not a supporter of the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, even though they include many women militants and claim to be a liberation movement...
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