The question of self and what it means across cultural boundaries has always been interesting. In this post, I aim to understand one Iranian director’s perspective on the construction of self in order to extrapolate …
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In 2017 the Political is Personal
‘A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.’ – Abbie Hoffman I first came across the political whirlwind that was Abbie Hoffman whilst a new activist in …
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Strike! for Repeal
The Strike 4 Repeal movement urged the public to support the movement on social media. “We have the support of thousands of people in Ireland and the world and the media attention continues to embarrass …
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Neoliberalism, Feminism and Afghanistan
Maxine Molyneux (2008) discussing neoliberal trends in feminist social policy in Latin America argues that the term ‘neoliberalism’ has become so profuse it had lost a sense of any specific meaning. In their essay Introduction: …
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Gender(ed) Paradoxes
Feminist, anti-imperialist and student movements of the 1960s and 1970s brought to the fore the concept of the ‘personal [as] political’. Since that time, the ‘personal [as] political’ has become axiomatic, offered as a means …
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Migrants, Modernity and the ‘Islamisation of Europe’
I also come from a Muslim, Iranian, migrant background – where many in my family migrated to the U.S. from Iran in 1979 and throughout the 1980s as both economic migrants and refugees from the …
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Solidarity and ‘the veil’: Why wearing a hijab in solidarity is more complicated than you think
Lately, there have been many stories of non-Muslim women deciding to wear the Muslim head scarf (or hijab) as a way of showing solidarity with Muslims, especially Muslim women, in this age of growing Islamophobia. …
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The Power of Memory
Collective hatred comes from narratives of cultural memory. In 1916, anticipating victory, France, Russia, and Britain created the “Middle East” out of the remains of the 600-year old Ottoman Empire. Lebanon and Iraq were directly …
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Protected: Amnesty International: Human Rights are meaningless without human solidarity.
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#FreeWalli
Walli Ullah Safi, 21 years of age, has been in Cloverhill prison for more than two weeks. In very different circumstances, I was in prison at the same age for two weeks after protesting the …
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