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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 112–126.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of nationalism and feminism, and explores how Palestinian-American literature, emerging from personal and political displacement, narrates a literary claim to both reclamation and transformation, in which to return is to claim what was lost and to construct Palestinian reality anew. Drawing on the words...
View articletitled, On Writing and Return: <span class="search-highlight">Palestinian</span>-<span class="search-highlight">American</span> Reflections
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 113–126.
Published: 01 September 2001
.... Palestinian-American literature emerges from the context of personal and political displacement that has characterized Palestinian experience over the last half century. A relativelyrecent body ofliterature, offering an unprecedented charting of Palestinian experience in a language and diction accessible...
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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 (2024) 23 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in understanding Palestinian Indigeneity and earlier imperialist decision making that led to the predicament in the region today. See Columbia Rare Book Manuscript Library, Herbert H. Lehman Collections. Finally, we close by noting that Huanani-Kaye Trask (1949–2021) passed away while this issue...
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 287–289.
Published: 01 April 2025
..., Television, and Media, and a core faculty member in the Arab and Muslim American Studies program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Abstract: This article focuses on the life experience and political activism of Palestinian American lesbian activist Huda Jadallah as a representative example...
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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 (2021) 20 (1): 151–173.
Published: 01 April 2021
... 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 Culture in Postcolonial India...
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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 (2004) 4 (2): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Wendy Kozol Copyright © 2004 by Smith College 2004 WENDY KOZOL DomesticatingNATO'sWar in l(osovo/a (In)VisibBleodiesandtheDilemmaof Photooj urnaIism In April 1999, American news media extensively reported on the NATO bombings in Serbia and Kosovo/a, 1 a 78-day military effort led...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 168–194.
Published: 01 March 2004
... in May 2001, and again a year later in May 2002. I requested the second interview because of the events of the intervening year: the tragedies of September 11; America's subsequent war in Afghanistan and persecution of Muslims within and outside its borders; the renewal of the Palestinian intifada...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 240–266.
Published: 01 October 2023
...: The International Women’s Movement Anthology . New York : Anchor Books . Morrison Tony . 1989 . “ Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature .” Michigan Quarterly Review 28 , no. 1 : 1 – 34 . Musila Grace A. 2018 . “ Chimamanda Adichie: The Daughter...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 52–81.
Published: 01 April 2024
... BIPOC digital media activism, importantly noted by my anonymous reviewer. See, for example, the special issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures edited by Joanna Hearne ( 2017 ) and the Black Code special issue in Black Scholar edited by Jessica Marie Johnson and Mark Anthony Neal ( 2017...
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View articletitled, Honoring the Ancestors and Creator: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and the Politics of Spiritual Relationality in Tannis Nielsen’s A Creation and Rosa Sungjoo Park’s Forgotten Dreams
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
Published: 01 March 2016
... people's helplessness under the Soviet occupation (1979-1989). Captured by American photojournalist Steve McCurry (McCurry 1985), this photograph would be widely used by Amnesty International, calendars, brochures, and posters, and would become one of National Geographic's most recognized photographs...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 484–507.
Published: 01 December 2020
...-American woman in transnational feminist solidarity with women in Africa, she was familiar with the “hidden dynamics of racism” underlying “the myopic concentration on female circumcision in U.S. feminist literature on African women” (Davis 1989 , 117). It was believed that women on whom this practice...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 267–296.
Published: 01 October 2023
... to the persecuted Palestinian American scholar, Sami Al Arian (Adar and Yenigün 2019 ). Similarly, the government-controlled and state-owned media channel, TRT World, generally busy propagandizing for the Turkish bid for hegemony, has, in a highly calculated way, handed its megaphone over to progressive scholars...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 68–84.
Published: 01 September 2000
... have based their human rights struggles on issues of equality, non-discrimination and civil and political rights, African, Asian and Latin American women have focussed their struggles on economic, social and cultural rights." 4 These differences, however, were less striking at the Beijing conference...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 220–235.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Pottery in London. After teaching briefly at the American University in Beirut in the 1960s, she returned to Baghdad at the onset of the 1991GulfWar to be close to her mother and sister. Al-Radi lived in political exile in Lebanon until her untimely death in August 2004 from leukemia. Her work represents...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 150–176.
Published: 01 March 2006
... exhibitions in Frankfurt and surrounding cities. I was happy then and relaxed, particularly after a difficult year I had spent in Algiers teaching English and American literature at its university. Looking back at it now, Algeria had, in fact, helped me become a free woman. After living in Algeria I didn't...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., my students have had the rare opportunity to hear hooks in conversation with the likes of Marci Blackman, Charles Blow, Darnell Moore, Melissa Harris-Perry, and Gloria Steinem. The range of girls of color who take my classes-whether they are African American, Dominican, Nigerian, Palestinian, Puerto...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 298–322.
Published: 01 October 2021
... which anti-Muslim sentiments travel, their virality, and their metaphorical overlap with the notion of contagion. What seems to be the original meme is simply a photo of President Obama standing to the right of DJ Khaled; there are blue curtains and two American flags in the background. Overlaid...
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