This panel will explore how resistance is articulated and subaltern subjects are represented in rights discourses in the MENA region. Bringing together distinguished experts on digital media and media studies in the Syrian context, decolonial discourses and practices in Turkish Kurdistan through an anthropological lens, and the study of indigenous land rights in Israel from the perspectives of cultural studies, indigenous studies and human rights, the panel will offer a comparative framework for thinking about contemporary idioms of resistance across the landscape of the Middle East.
Participants:
· Dr. Katty Alhayek (Assistant Professor, Communications, Ryerson University); discussant: Professor Zeynep Korkman (UCLA, Gender Studies)
· Dr. Umut Yildirim (Distinguished Research Fellow, Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA); discussant: Professor Susan Slyomovics (UCLA, Anthropology)
· Dr. Morad El Sana (Distinguished Lecturer, Critical Race, Gender & Culture Studies, American University); discussant Professor Sherene Razack (UCLA, Gender Studies)
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Duration: 01:53:36
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