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...Peter Makhlouf Abstract In 1979, Edward Said attended a colloquy on Middle East politics hosted by Jean-Paul Sartre and Les Temps Modernes in the apartment of Michel Foucault. He would later go on to publish his reflections on this experience in a short piece titled “Diary.” Reading this piece...

... are now in online archives accessible to anyone at any time through Hezbollah's Internet sites. Stemming from Michel Foucault's and Edward Said's notions of power and knowledge, the article reads these videos as a strategy of resistance and as an attempt at self-representation that defies and inverts...

... getting old, such as my parents. And I thought, don’t let them die without me being there. That eats at you. Without people on the outside reminding you they are there, without people being vigilant, every time the administration did something to us, the solidarity movement acted, they said, “Be careful...

... something in me. And I understood the irony. So when my mother came home from work that night, I said, “You will never believe what I heard today!” with all my fourteen-year-old self-righteousness. I said, 07-RHR 80 Back.btw 5/15/01 4:06 PM Page 123...

...." Almost invariably they said yes. It was as simple as that. I remember the last time I did that after having come out. I said, "I've heard wonderful things about Ann Douglas' book The Feminization of American CuZture and I'd like to review it." Harvey Shapiro, who was then head of the book...

... of some kind. The project of your book Empire is an unlikely one. lf anyone else had gone to a publisher and said that he wanted to write a novel about the origins of American imperialism during the McKinl ey administration, he wouldn't have been given very much of an advance...

...-was working on getting blacks to vote. He wanted to give some meaning to the 1944 Supreme Court Smith uersus Allwright decision that said that the Democratic Party was not a white 68 RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW man’s club. The Air Safety Officer at Corpus Christi, a Naval Academy...

... manner), it became clear that "East" and "West" may have much more to do with a state of mind than with a geographic origin. Knowing that Said's classic book Orientalism has been attacked, revised, shunned, and is considered by many to be simply passe, I assigned it anyway. At least once...

..., Orientalism and Race: Aryanism in the British Empire. New York: Palgrave, 2002. The publication of Edward W. Said’s Orientalism in 1978 marked a momentous intervention in the historiography of Western imperialism and Western representa- tions of the Middle...

... speakers, another Fili- pina approached me and said something in broken English. She smiled, tilted her head, and proceeded flirtatiously to pinch the back of my arm. I tried to signal polite disinterest and continued walking without breaking my pace. “Sir, Texas!” yelled two young Filipinas...

... worker abolitionists sometimes feel ignored as a public worthy of address. “I get it,” said Clara of appeals to think beyond violence and retribution, “they’re writing for civvy liberals—to convince them—not for us.” That is not true of the whole abolitionist project; abolitionism is grounded...

... I was at a conference in Europe, a German sex worker came up to me and said that I had changed her life. That was the most profound thing anybody ever said to me. JW: Do you remember how sex workers responded to your breakthrough anthology Sex Work , a compilation of critical and historical...

..., until she came to GLAAD, “did not consider myself political at all.” “My activism was all about my family,” she said. As a partnered lesbian with kids living in the New Jersey suburbs, Garry claimed, she brought a unique ability to put herself “in the other guys’ shoes.” She went on to describe...

..., the Government of Ireland has calculated Apple’s taxable income in a way to produce an effective rate in low single digits . . . since 2003 it has been 2 percent or less.” 5 “I suspect there will be some interesting publicity around the world surrounding the lack of Irish taxes being paid,” said Professor J...

... hang your coat on a nail and go to work. This was a mule-spinning department. I joined the union be- cause my uncle told me to join the union. He was a spin- ner there, I became a back boy. He said to me, you join a union. I paid a quarter a month...

... era, many artists and cultural producers, especially in the Western artistic tradition, have considered their work to be apolitical or neutral. Can artistic neutrality be said to exist in conflict situations, or is culture ultimately, in the words of Edward Said, “a battleground on which causes...

....” Although Lebrón had only praise for Albizu Campos, she knew the party was not exempt from male supremacist attitudes toward women. I asked her if there was discrimination against women in the party. She said, “I don’t want to say I was a victim, but I was affected by machismo. Albizu Campos sent me...

... a Norfolk [Va.] August the 21 1865 This is to certify That Elisabeth Wright Appeared Before me J W Cook Notary and Counsiler Fore The Freedmen In This Department By Permission Of Maj General Miles And Swore to The Fowling Statements and the Said Testimony Was Confermed...

... said, “Let them kill all these Germans.” And my mother protested, and she said, “No, because the German men are here, and there are the women and the children [who are being bombed Then they saw me listening and then became silent. But we had more of that kind of discussion in the family, also...

... to become village chief. He wanted him to be a hero. So he said to his son Lomyamtiwa: "My son, I want you to be the village chief. So this is what I want you to do: When you see a nice girl, go to her and ask her to have intercourse with you. If she is willing, do it; then say to her: 'I am glad I...