Min Fami: Arab Feminist Reflections on Identity, Space and Resistance

by Ghadeer Malek, Ghaida Moussa (Editor)

Overview

Min Fami: Arab Feminist Reflections on Identity, Space, and Resistance is an anthology that cradles the thoughts of Arab feminists, articulated through personal critical narratives, academic essays, poetry, short stories, and visual art. It is a meeting space where discussions on home(land), exile, feminism, borders, gender and sexual identity, solidarity, language, creative resistance, and de(colonization) are shared, confronted, and subverted. In a world that has increasingly found monolithic and one-dimensional ways of representing Arab womyn, this anthology comes as an alternate space in which we connect on the basis of our shared identities, despite physical, theoretical, and metaphorical distances, to celebrate our multiple voices, honour our ancestry,

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781926708768
Publisher:	Inanna Publications
Publication date:	10/15/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Ghadeer Malek is a Palestinian feminist activist, aspiring writer and spoken word poet. She immigrated to Toronto in 2003 to study at the University of Toronto where she was active in student movements in support of Palestinian human rights and justice. She graduated with an honors bachelor degree in History and Middle Eastern studies after which she joined the Association of Women’s Right in Development (AWID). She currently coordinates the Young Feminist Activism (YFA) Program at AWID and is looking forward to pursuing an MA degree at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) starting in the Fall of 2013. Ghadeer is also co-founder and editor of AQSAZine, an art collective of young progressive and critical Muslim women passionate about combating gender-based violence through art. Ghadeer’s poetry has been published in Feminism FOR REAL and Shameless Magazine. She has also performed at a number of community and university events including Mayworks, Ryerson’s Women’s Day, York University and at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Ghaida Moussa is a scholar, educator, and dj, who is passionately drawn to creative articulations of resistance, identity, memory, and space. She holds a bi-disciplinary Master’s degree in International Development and Global Studies, and Women’s Studies from the University of Ottawa. Her Master’s thesis, Narrative (sub)Versions: How Queer Palestinian Womyn ‘Queer’ Palestinian Identity, focused on narrative and creative resistance by queer Palestinian womyn in response to national, colonial, and neocolonial mainstream oppressive discourses. She is currently undertaking her Ph.D in Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto, Canada. The past couple of years, she has been devoted to translating anti-colonial notions onto dance floors, thinking through 'home' in the cracks between anchored locations and collective memory, and practicing pedagogy from the heart in the classroom and in alternate spaces of education.