Arab and Arab-American Feminisms
Dr. Nadine Naber is a scholar activist from Al Salt, Jordan. She conducts research in collaboration with local communities of color, social movements, and policy-based processes.
Dr. Naber received her PhD in Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Davis in 2002. She is currently a Professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and the Global Asian Studies Program at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC).
Her work focuses on racial justice and MENA communities; Arab and Muslim feminist and queer activism; activist mothering within the Arab Spring revolutions and U.S. social movements; feminist abolition; feminist-queer of color activism against militarism, war, and colonization; feminist of color coalition/solidarity politics; and activist research methodologies.
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| Filename | race-and-class-review.pdf |
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| Category | Book Reviews |
| sub-title | Gender, Violence, and Belonging |
| authors | Rosemary Sayigh |
| publication | Syracuse University Press |
| publish_date | 2011 |
Arab and Arab-American Feminisms is an explosively oppositional book that crosses sanctified boundaries of nationality, religion, sect, ethnicity, class and sexuality to challenge America’s ‘war on terror’ in both its external and internal forms. The book was conceived in the aftermath of 9/11, when American hostility towards Arabs and Muslims was being made manifest in actions as weird as a school principal stripping a 16-year-old schoolgirl of her ‘Free Palestine’ t-shirt and as crude as the message ‘Get the f*** out of the USA … NOW!!!!’, sent to scholars who denounced the Israeli war on Gaza. The editors have brought together a cross-section of articulate women – academics, poets, community activists, performance artists, fiction writers – to tell their experiences of silencing and ‘speaking back’. These personal narratives are held together by a cogent historical critique of American racism and a structure that highlights themes such as ‘Living with/in empire’, ‘Activist communities’ and ‘Home and homelands’.