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a-Rab the second is here!
By yaman | October 20, 2007
Man, what a month. There’s a lot I want to post here, but I’ve been busy with the a-Rab among other things. Check out the second issue by clicking on the image below…
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Cover art by Husam Zakharia
My contributions to this one are…
During the week of October 22nd, the David Horowitz Freedom Center is hosting “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” on college campuses around the country. The events, which are taking place at a time when neoconservative policies are at their least popular moment, are geared towards shifting the public’s attention away from America’s wars abroad, and towards the alleged threat that “Islamo-Fascism” poses to the “civilized world.”
Ethnicity and nationality, once they dominate the discourse of resistance, often spoil it by muddling its purpose. Check the response of minorities that have faced repression or persecution in America: “Proud to be Mexican,” “Proud to be Black, “Proud to be Arab,” etc.
A group of people, once excluded and rejected, responds by formulating an identity around that exclusion.What grows out of nothing more than a common disposition in a structure of power, however, leads to a pursuit of other common defining characteristics. We think that if we control our identity, we control our selves, and we have dutifully resisted the imposition of an undesirable social order
If you want to write something for the next issue, the deadline is November 5. Please click here for more information. Spread the word!
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