Category: Migration
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“Poetry and Diaspora” Session – Indelible Literature Festival 2022
A wonderful Indelible Literary and Arts Journal festival session on Poetry and Diaspora was held yesterday.
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Telos Magazine Issue 3 الهجرة والتهجير: مقاربات وخبرات
Telos Magazine Issue 3 – Cover photo by Dr. Pamela Chrabieh
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Minutes from the Miracle City by Omar Sabbagh
Congratulations dear Omar Sabbagh! I had the pleasure to read your Dubai Novella and write a back book cover blurb. Hakim, a Pakistani taxi driver whizzing through the streets. Patrick, a Ugandan security guard with aspirations of becoming a writer. Farida, a Moroccan beautician hoping for a fresh start. Saeed, a respected Emirati journalist just back from…
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Women’s Rights in the Gulf Region – Alaraby Interview
مداخلتي منذ قليل في برنامج شبابيك (التلفزيون العربي، لندن) عن حقوق المرأة في الخليج وأسباب هروب فتيات و نساء إلى الخارج. خلاصة القول: لقد عملت هذه الدول في السنوات الأخيرة على سد الفجوة بين الجنسين (التمكين السياسي والتعليم والصحة) ولكن يجب اصلاح عدة قوانين (الأحوال الشخصية، الوصاية…) وتفكيك الذهنية الأبوية Alaraby TV (London – UK),…
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Learning through Food – Deep Learning in the University Context in the Middle East
For those interested in food and education: this article introduces its readers to an interdisciplinary approach in teaching and learning about cultures of Southwestern Asia and North Africa at the American University in Dubai. Selected as one of the United Arab Emirates Innovation Week’s officially registered activities in 2015, this activity combines anthropology of food,…
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Successful International Conference held on Migration in/from the Arab World
The International Conference “A Century of Migration, Displacement and Diaspora: Demographic Shifts in the Arab World 1917-2017” convened in Limassol-Cyprus (November 30- December 3, 2017) and was hosted by the Bethlehem-based Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture in collaboration with the Christian Academic Forum for Citizenship in the Arab World (CAFCAW). “Academic researchers from…