Define Feminism. What is PostColonial Feminism? What role does religion play in women’s struggle? Provide examples from the readings, lecture and videos. 500 words minimum
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Center for Constitutional Rights. Judge Throws out charges in Los Angeles Wight Case. October 23, 2007. https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/judge-throws-out-charges-los-angeles-eight-case
The Electronic Intifada. 2007. Charges dropped in 20-year-old US case against Palestinian activists. October 31, 2007.https://electronicintifada.net/content/charges-dropped-20-year-old-us-case-against-palestinian-activists/784
Weinstein. Henry. 2007. Final two L.A. 8 defendants cleared: After 20 years, U.S. drops efforts to deport men accused of ties to Palestinian terrorists. November 1, 2007. http://articles.latimes.com/2007/nov/01/local/me-palestinian1
Shehadeh, M. (2002 Dec 03). The Latest New War on Terrorism. Counter Punch, 1-11. http://www.counterpunch.org/2002/12/03/the-latest-war-on-terrorism/.
Chambers, B. (2016 June 15). Palestinian Community Leader Rasmea Odeh Moves Closer to a New Trial. The Chicago Monitor, 1-4. http://chicagomonitor.com/2016/06/palestinian-community-leader-rasmea-odeh-moves-closer-to-a-new-trial/
Cole, D., and Bennis, Phyllis. (1996). Ten Years of the Los Angeles Eight Deportation Case: Interview with David Cole. Middle East Report, (202), 41-44. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3013042?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.
Cole, D., and Dempsey, J. (2002). The Investigation and Attempted Deportation of the Los Angeles 8. In Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security (41-56). New York: The New Press.
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Michael Shehadeh: This is My Tale (AHSVIDEOPRO: 7 mins). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLirHoiQIEU
Outstanding Community Leader Rasmea Yousef (Chicago Cultural Alliances, 2013: 6 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xxrl8aj8aQ
USA versus Sami Al-Arian (Line Halvorsen, 2007: 100 mins) http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/usa_vs_al_arian
Democracy Now. 2007. The Case of the L.A. 8: U.S. Drops 20-Year Effort to Deport Arab Americans for Supporting Palestinian National Rights. November 2, 2007. https://www.democracynow.org/2007/11/2/the_case_of_the_la8_u
Reitman, J. (2016). Inside GITMO. Rolling Stone, (1252), 46-57. Zevnik, A. (2011 July).
Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Detainee: Encountering Human Rights Discourse in Guantanamo. Law and Critique, 22(2), 155-169.
Harlow, Barbara. 2012. Resistance Literature Revisited: From Basra to Guantanamo in Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics.
Fink Sheri. 2016. Even Nightmares Are Classified: Interrogations Shadow Hampers Mental Care at Guantnamo. New York Times. November 13, 2016.
ACLU. 2017 August 17. CIA Torture Psychologists Settle Lawsuit. ACLU https://www.aclu.org/news/cia-torture-psychologists-settle-lawsuit
The Political Committee of Solidarity (2014) From Ferguson to CIA Torture Cells. Solidarity. December 17. http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/4319
Who Are We the People?: If corporations are legal persons, why arent Muslim detainees? Eric L. Lewis. New York Times. October 5, 2014.
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Life after Guantanamo: Exiled in Kazakhstan (Vice News: 31 mins). https://news.vice.com/video/life-after-guantanamo-exiled-in-kazakhstan
Read:
Abdulhadi, R., Alsultany, E., & Naber, N. (2011). Arab and Arab American Feminisms: An Introduction. In R. Abdulhadi, E. Alsultany, & N. Naber (Eds.), Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence and Belonging (xix-xxxix). Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
Abdelhadi, Reem and Abdulhadi, Rabab. 2002. Nomadic Existence: Gender, Exile and Palestine in This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, edited by Gloria Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating. Routledge.
Abu-Lughod, L. (2002). Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and its Others. American Anthropologist, 104(3): 783-790.
Abdulhadi and Bacchetta Call for Papers. Islamophobia Studies Journal
Raha Iranian Feminist Collective. Solidarity and Its Discontents Jadaliyya, 19 Feb. 2011. www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/683/solidarity-and-its-discontents
Hilal, G. (2013 Nov 27). Eight questions Palestinian queers are tired of hearing. The Electronic Intifada, 1-3.
Chicago Dyke March Official Statement on 2017 March and Solidarity with Palestine. June 27, 2017. https://chicagodykemarchcollective.org/2017/06/27/chicago-dyke-march-official-statement-on-2017-march-and-solidarity-with-palestine/
Greenwald, Glenn. 2013 April 27. Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/27/bradley-manning-sf-gay-pride.
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Liberation Spring. 2018. Dr Rabab Abdulhadi on Teaching Palestine (FV Ep. 10). February 9, 2018
Women in Islam: Panel Discussion at Richard Oaks Multicultural Center, SFSU. October 12, 2012.
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Meari, L. (2014). Sumud: A Palestinian Philosophy of Confrontation in Colonial Prisons. South Atlantic Quarterly, 113 (3): 547.
Harbury, J. (2005). The Fall of Abu Ghraib. In Truth, Torture, and the American Way, 1-27. Boston: Beacon Press.
The U.S. Prisoner, Labor and Academic Solidarity Delegation to Palestine. We Stand with Palestine in the Spirit of Sumud. March 24- April 2, 2016. http://www.freedomarchives.org/Pal/Delegation.We.Stand.pdf
Seymour M. Hersh. 2004. Torture at Abu Ghraib: American soldiers brutalized Iraqis. How far up does the responsibility go? May 19. 2004. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/10/torture-at-abu-ghraib
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Aljazeera. Abu Ghraib: Justice Denied. Abu Ghraib: A justice denied As a court rules that crimes committed by US corporations abroad cannot be tried in the US, what are the implications? 29 Jun 2013 14:51 GM https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2013/06/2013629115945462777.html
POV. Attica Prison Riot – William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe . POV on PBS. June 24, 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXgP0lkqPNk
Political Prisoners in Palestine (Joanne Barker, 2016: 1 hour and 45 min) https://vimeo.com/163335129
From Pelican Bay, Guantanamo and Palestine: Prisons, Repression and Resistance, Teach-in, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative, San Francisco State University, May 2013. [Sahar Francis Lecture 0-1:55:30] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B51D_oR8e8
Israeli Military Detention: No Way to Treat a Child. April 9, 2018. https://www.facebook.com/pg/nowaytotreatachild/posts/
Brad Parker, No Way To Treat a Child Campaign, September 13, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glFRraSy7Ro
Report back from members of the Academic and Labor Delegation to Palestine 2014- Part 1 (AMED SFSU, 2014: 1 hour) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4u8GpC-AiQ
