Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging

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Contents Acknowledgments ix List of Contributors xiii Arab and Arab American Feminisms: An Introduction Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber xix Part 1. Living with/in Empire: Grounded Subjectivities 1. Beyond Words, Suheir Hammad 3 2. The Political and Cultural Representations of Arabs, Arab Americans, and Arab American Feminisms after September 11, 2001, Mervat F. Hatem 10 3. Palestinian Women’s Disappearing Act: The Suicide Bomber Through Western Feminist Eyes, Amal Amireh 29 4. Arab Jews, Diasporas, and Multicultural Feminism: An Interview with Ella Shohat, Evelyn Alsultany 46 5. In the Belly of the Beast: Struggling for Nonviolent Belonging, Zeina Zaatari 60 6. Decolonizing Culture: Beyond Orientalist and Anti-Orientalist Feminisms, Nadine Naber 78 7. Inanna, dunya mikhail, translated from the Arabic by Elizabeth Winslow 91 vi | Contents Part 2. Defying Categories: Thinking and Living Out of the Box 8. Between the Lines, Youmna Chlala 95 9. Quandaries of Representation, Mona El-Ghobashy 97 10. Dyke March, San Francisco, 2004: Many Are Intrigued by the Fact That I Am Also a Belly Dancer, Happy/L. A. Hyder 104 11. The Pity Committee and the Careful Reader: How Not to Buy Stereotypes about Muslim Women, Mohja Kahf 111 12. History’s Traces: Personal Narrative, Diaspora, and the Arab Jewish Experience, Kyla Wazana Tompkins 124 Part 3. Activist Communities: Representation, Resistance, and Power 13. The Burden of Representation: When Palestinians Speak Out, Nada Elia 141 14. Taking Power and Making Power: Resistance, Global Politics, and Institution Building: An Interview with Anan Ameri, Nadine Naber 159 15. Inside Out: Youth of Color Organizing from Multiple Sites: An Interview with Janaan Attia, Nadine Naber 166 16. Arabiya Made Invisible: Between Marginalization of Agency and Silencing of Dissent, Noura Erakat 174 17. On Rachel Corrie, Palestine, and Feminist Solidarity, Therese Saliba 184 18. Just Peace Seder, Toronto Just Peace Seder Community 203 19. Dissidents, Displacements, and Diasporas: An Interview with Dena Al-Adeeb, Nadine Naber 213 Part 4. On Our Own Terms: Discourses, Politics, and Feminisms 20. Arab American Feminisms: Mobilizing the Politics of Invisibility, Amira Jarmakani 227 Contents | vii 21. Class Equality, Gender Justice, and Living in Harmony with Mother Earth: An Interview with Joe Kadi, Nadine Naber 242 22. Personal and Political: The Dynamics of Arab American Feminism, Susan Muaddi Darraj 248 23. Teaching Scriptural Texts in the Classroom: The Question of Gender, Moulouk Berry 261 24. The Light in My House, imani yatouma 270 25. Guidelines, Lisa Suhair Majaj 274 26. Reflections of a Genderqueer Palestinian American Lesbian Mother, Huda Jadallah 276 Part 5. Home and Homelands: Memories, Exile, and Belonging 27. The Memory of Your Hands Is a Rainbow, Amal Hassan Fadlalla, translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa 283 28. You Are a 14-Year-Old Arab Chick Who Just Moved to Texas, Randa Jarrar 288 29. The Long Road Home, Sherene Seikaly 292 30. The Legacy of Exile: An Excerpt, Emanne Bayoumi 302 31. Stealth Muslim, Evelyn Alsultany 307 32. Where Is Home? Fragmented Lives, Borders Crossings, and the Politics of Exile, Rabab Abdulhadi 315 Notes 331 Bibliography 361 Index 383 ...