A few weeks ago, I woke up to the news that Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year old Iraqi refugee in America, died after being beaten by a group who entered her home. The mother of five was found with a note that read: “Go back to your country. You are a terrorist.” Read more here. (The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘America’
The Power of Discourse
Posted in America, Discourses, Middle East, Netherlands, tagged America, Discourses, Middle East, Netherlands on May 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Black American History
Posted in America, Police, Race, tagged African-Americans, America, Police, Race on October 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I just began reading a book on police brutality and the African American community in the US, and I can’t remember having been this shocked and disturbed for a very long time. Of course I knew that America had white-washed its history and somehow dusted a lot of its crimes and actions under the history [...]
Unrealistic expectations
Posted in America, Palestine, Pinkwashing, tagged America, Palestine on June 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I was just researching for my paper on pinkwashing, and came across this beautiful quote in one of the articles by an American, Maggie Sager: We expect Palestinians to not throw stones at the IDF jeeps who come to teargas their protestations against the illegal confiscation of their entire villages while we wouldn’t bat an [...]
The Islamophobia Industry
Posted in America, Islamophobia, Neo-colonialism, Others, tagged America, Islamophobia on June 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Just came across an amazing blog called “muslimerican” and found this great post on the Islamophobia Industry in the US: It would be hard for anyone to ignore the growing anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States. (If you hadn’t noticed it, this horrifying video will bring you up to speed.) The transition seemed to begin [...]
Psychological colonialism
Posted in America, Global, Neo-colonialism, Psychology, tagged America, media, Psychology, racism on April 3, 2011 | 5 Comments »
One of the major ways in which colonialism has continued to exist in our world today is through the mind. It is unbelievable the way the global system(s) have been moulded to produce peoples who think they are organized in a hierarchy. The media, capitalism, international relations, consumerism, heteronormativity, racism – all of these have [...]
