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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I’ll be posting a link to where you can see it in the future, but I just wanted to let you know I just finished my 5th year scholar project–an anthology of found literature exploring what is common between all Tartans (CMU students) using blog posts they wrote while studying abroad. I have representatives from [...] It’s probably the sleep-deprivation, but I’ve been hearing this line from Birches running over and over in my head for a while: I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. Sitting here in my spare rented room in the Maadi suburb of Cairo, my mind feels free. [...] In middle school, I decided I was afraid of too many things. The dark, loud noises and cooking raw meat (ever gotten a bacon burn? It hurts.). I felt I owed it to my heroes (Kel, Alanna, Anita Blake, V.I. Warshawski, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor) to trim down the list of things of which I [...] I’m a little stuck tonight. I am intensely excited to be going back to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing but I’ve got homework to do. Every year I leave jazzed, inspired, and feeling wildly geeky. Unlike most years, I am trying to finish up all of my homework before I leave so [...] |
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