Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-15
- 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 #
