Arab and Arab American Feminisms Panel Event 11/10

Arab and Arab American Feminisms Panel Event

Thurs. Nov. 10th 7pm | 2 Plaza St, SF

This panel will feature a discussion led by contributors to the book Arab and Arab American Feminisms, which explores themes including intersections between gender, sexuality, Orientalism, racism, Islamophobia, and Zionism, and the restoration of Arab Jews to Arab American histories. Arab and Arab American Feminisms opens up new possibilities for placing grounded Arab and Arab American feminist perspectives at the center of gender studies, Middle East studies, American studies, and ethnic studies.

The Panel Event will feature: 
Rabab Abdulhadi, associate professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies and senior scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative at San Francisco State University and coauthor of Mobilizing Democracy: Changing U.S. Policy in the Middle East.
Mohja Kahf, associate professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Arkansas. Kahf is a poet, novelist, and activist for the Syrian Revolution, which she tweets for @ProfKahf. Her books include Emails from Scheherezade, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, and Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque.
Happy/L.A. Hyder,  visual artist, writer and performer, whose activism include speaking about anti-Arab racism at the Dynamics of Color conference on racism in the lesbian community (1989), founding/directing LVA : Lesbians in the Visual Arts (1990-2003), and sharing thoughts on the iconography of family images and the impact of making art at the Arab American Museum's DIWAN conference (2009