Today I gave a presentation in my “Modern Arabic Literature” class on state-censorship. Well, first I put on a play, using some scenes from the frame narrative of Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero (slides 8 and 9 include the relevant text), then used the slides below to dig deeper into the text. In the [...]
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[Trigger warning: This post discusses sexual assault, prevention strategies and includes mentions of specific theoretical situations.] I didn’t have time to write about everything that happened last week in Cairo and so in the middle of the week I started a list of posts I would write after I returned to the states. One of them was [...] I spent much of yesterday climbing all over the Citadel of Qaitbey in Alexandria, Egypt. It was raised in 1477 on the foundations of the Lighthouse at Alexandria, which fell after two decades of earthquakes in the early 1300s. The stones of the lighthouse had been worked together with molten lead to withstand the pounding of [...] My Lonely Planet guide to Egypt makes women’s experiences traveling exceptional to the norm. A typical section might go on for 5 paragraphs about a beautiful garden, then end with a sentence about how women traveling alone should not walk there are night as we will be mistaken for prostitutes. Next item! There are obvious [...] I’m heading to Alex(andria) tomorrow. I have so many words and photos and videos to describe the things I saw today and yesterday, but my train leaves at 8:15am and I need to go to sleep. I may catch up on the train, or during my lay-over in Istanbul. More later, some photos now: Does [...] |
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