Please take a tour of the blog and see the wide variety of student entries from last year, which included three courses (syllabi posted). My students were in a history course on Women & Gender in the Middle East. This semester my students will be exploring Middle Eastern women’s voices in literature, including various genres, … Read more
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13192077 Pakistan creates a third gender for those that do not feel like they are male or female. M Russell
Sarkhozy pushed the ban on the burka/niqab, now his opponent says that he will criminalize men who pay for sex–women’s bodies are all over French politics: http://www.france24.com/en/20110414-france-may-criminalise-men-who-pay-for-sex-dominique-villepin-french-sleep%20-most-oecd-cannes M Russell
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=transsexual-candidate-nominees-to-be-elected-for-political-parties-2011-04-01 Transsexual to run for parliament only so that she can get rid of her own job–she thinks government is too big. M Russell
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/366507 Looks like the new Egypt is not any more progressive than the old one.
http://www.theworld.org/how-we-got-here-podcast/ Professor Russell on Egyptian Women–NPR–this interview took place before Mubarak resigned, but just got posted.
Can a slender can of Pepsi offend people? Probably not. Most likely what will offend people is the timing of its introduction–fashion week, and the beautiful women draped around it, who encourage standards of beauty, height, and slenderness that many women feel they will never achieve. It just depends how we measure beauty. For a … Read more
I tried to add this to my previous comment on Dr. Nawal in Egyptian Protests http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM1scxpmbWQ She is unbelievable–my mother actually remembers her leading protests as early as the 1940s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSBJwsjakcg&feature=player_embedded This conflicts somewhat with activist Gamal Eid who tweeted that he has not seen gunfire, or that it has been in the air–so it depends where one is–and there may be a time lapse between these two reports. M Russell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgjIgMdsEuk&feature=player_embedded This is one of the voices that helped to start the protests in Egypt–it is a Must See! If you see photographs or news footage you might get the impression that women are not involved–WRONG! See these amazing pictures just out of Egypt since the internet reopened. http://www.kaldasianarts.com/blog/2011/02/02/egypts-largest-pro-democracy-demonstrations-in-history-so-far-february-1st-2011/ M Russell