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In rainy Beirut for #CASAR2012 "Shifting Borders: America and the Middle East/North Africa." First time here. Beautiful seaside campus. #

Suad Abdul-Kabeer (Purdue) on "Muslim Cool": emergent practice; performance of blackness as a way of creating Muslim identity. #CASAR2012 #

Blackout at the moment; sitting in the dark listening to our speaker. Several power outages last night at hotel, briefer. #CASAR2012 #

Sohail Daulatzai (Irvine) on problems of Obama-era US triumphalist multiculturalist universalism. #CASAR2012 #

Maryam Kashani (Austin) on Malcolm X and Habib Umar; African slaves in Americas. #CASAR2012 #

Junaid Rana (Urbana-Champaign): "Sci-Fi Islamica: American Empire and the Fantasy of Pakistan." Recent book: http://t.co/qmYtlA2p #CASAR2012 #

Rana on Pakistani artist Huma Bhabha's haunting visions: http://t.co/OXz87X0E #CASAR2012 #

Bhabha "offers a political critique of global politics, war, environmental catastrophes, and the effects of rampant capitalism." #CASAR2012 #

Huma Bhabha's work: http://t.co/dPAMr0nq #CASAR2012 #

Interesting question: What's the difference between "Muslim American" and "American Muslim"? #CASAR2012 #

Mounira Soliman (Cairo Univ) on Egyptian popular reactions to contradictions of US discourse on Egyptian Revolution. #CASAR2012 #

US presence on Tahrir Square: Am Univ Cairo, Nile Hilton, fast food chains. #CASAR2012 #

"Obama Song" by Shaaban Abd El Raheem http://t.co/oYDT2pVm #CASAR2012 #

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Bound for Madinat Zayed and environs In search of UAE National Day swag. #abudhabi #

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@jamiaw We've moved and are at NYU Abu Dhabi this year! Hope you are well. #

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In NYC, rats on the train tracks; in Sawai Madhopur: wild boar. #India #

Exploring old Purana Quila fort in Delhi: luxuriously deserted because it's the morning of a festival day. #India #

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We've come to Delhi for Eid. The air is cool and smoky as we are driven to our hotel. It's 4:40 am. #

Driving in Abu Dhabi is child's play compared to navigating the streets of Delhi. Lanes? Bah! Glad it's not me driving. #

"Snake Driving": that's what our driver calls the way Indians drive. We're approaching the big Jain temple. #

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Taking my first public bus in #AbuDhabi Fare is AED 1 = $.27! #

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On my way to teach my second class at #nyuad And writing to @_waterman from the shuttle bus about #vWNY Today: Appiah's Cosmopolitanism. #

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Looking forward to discussing "When the Whip Comes Down" at tonight's reading at McNally-Jackson: http://t.co/BH9FBP7 #

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Listening to radio from Martha's Vineyard via iTunes while 8 time zones away in Abu Dhabi. Gotta love some things about the 21st century! #

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@pwhny Showing clip from Bill Moyers's documentary BECOMING AMERICAN about the history of Chinese Americans. #wny11 #

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