This video was first released by KolahStudio on 5 August 2006. For more information, visit <www.kolahstudio.com>. | Print
Subjects Archives: Media
Media, Communications, and Literature
“Secularism . . . a Really Interesting Problematic”: A Conversation with Joan Wallach Scott
DKK: Joan, because people know you as many things — as a theorist of gender, as a cultural historian, as an inveterate advocate for academic freedom and defender of the rights of the professoriate — I’m curious how you would describe yourself to someone who had never met Joan Scott. JWS: That’s really hard . […]
Iranian Street Art of A1one
KolahStudio and A1one
A1one is a street artist based in Tehran, Iran. For more information about A1one, visit <www.kolahstudio.com/a1one>. For more information about KolahStudio, go to <www.kolahstudio.com>. See, also, A1one, “Dead Soldierz.” | Print
The Color of Pomegranates
Sayat Nova Sergei Parajanov (9 January 1924 – 20 July 20 1990) was a Soviet Armenian filmmaker. | Print
Silent Screech
“I don’t think that a 55-year-old man can cancel an underground metal concert anywhere in the world except Iran. Gradually, I’m beginning to understand the concept of protest . . . except that this time the neighbors are the ones who are protesting.” Hamid Najafi Rad is a filmmaker based in Tehran, Iran. This […]
Dead Soldierz
A1one is a street artist based in Tehran, Iran. For more information about A1one, visit <www.kolahstudio.com/a1one>. | Print
Another Spill in Another Gulf
“In contrast to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, no one is predicting that it will possible to contain the blood spill that is being prepared for the Persian Gulf.” Pedro Méndez Suárez is a Cuban cartoonist. This cartoon was published in Rebelión on 19 July 2010. Translation by Yoshie Furuhashi (@yoshiefuruhashi […]
Reading The Politics of Veil
Joan Wallach Scott, The Politics of the Veil. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Vii + 208 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $24.94 U.S. (cl), ISBN 978-0-691-1243-5. On March 15, 2004, the French government passed a law banning the wearing of « conspicuous signs » of religious affiliation within public schools. The decision […]
The 2010 Commonwealth Games: Delhi’s Worrying Transformation
Amid spells of heavy monsoon rain and sticky, sweltering heat, Delhi is an anxious city, struggling to meet a deadline. Preparations are furiously underway for the nineteenth Commonwealth Games, to be held in town in less than three months (from October 3-14). Delhi residents expect that their upturned streets, recurrent blackouts and impassable traffic jams […]
Umberto Digital Haiku No. 2
An interactive cinematic experiment that reinterprets a shot from the film Umberto D by Vittorio de Sica, manipulating it in response to the attention that the viewer devotes to it. Umberto D depicts Italy in 1952 in the middle of a deep recession, a mirror of the current economic crisis. Fernando Nabais, Project Manager, […]
Thoughts in a Hijab
“This is the story of Sahar, an Iranian girl, and her personal choice to continue wearing the hijab after moving to the United States.” Produced by Reel Grrls, an organization supporting young women who are beginning filmmakers. 2008. | Print
What Difference Does a Revolution Make? A Preliminary Contrast of India and China
I. Commonalities At the time of their casting off of colonialism — India gaining independence from Britain in 1947, China putting an end to a century of imperialist domination in 1949 — the two largest countries in Asia shared many common characteristics. Each possessed an enormous continental landmass with a population in the hundreds of […]
Can the European Welfare State Survive? Can National Public Radio Survive?
NPR wants to convince listeners that the European welfare state is on its last legs. While it tells listeners this, nothing in the piece actually supports this case. For example, it implies that growth is grinding to a halt in Europe because of its generous welfare state, noting that Europe is expected to grow just […]
Fayetteville as in Fate
. . . I mix metaphors among them like a reckless cook throwing things into a pot hoping they don’t explode when they touch each other, hoping they don’t turn bitter when the heat rises . . . Mohja Kahf is a poet and professor of English. This poem is included in her E-mails from […]
Paris, October 1961
Leïla Sebbar, The Seine Was Red. Paris, October 1961: A Novel (translated by Mildred Mortimer). Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008. xxiv + 116pp. $17.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 10-0253-2202-38. The official French obfuscation of the police violence against Algerians in Paris in October 1961 has inspired long-term personal and collective memory retrieval that […]
$tudent$ Make Banks Rich (Only If the Loans Are Repaid)
These are original poster designs by EDUdebtorsunion.org. They are all formatted for print on standard 8 1/2″ x 11″ letter paper. Please print and display anywhere you think this information would be relevant, provocative, or necessary! Some ideas of placement: Within Universities: Financial Aid Office, Bursar’s Office, Cashiers’ Windows, Student Unions Within the City: […]
India: The Poverty of the Intellectual Mind and the Enlightened Mind of the Backward Adivasi
This is a rejoinder that the slain CPI (Maoist) spokesperson had penned in response to B.G. Verghese’s article in Outlook. Reading B.G. Verghese’s article Daylight at the Thousand-Star Hotel in Outlook (May 3), one is stunned by the abysmal poverty of thought and colonial mindset of this renowned intellectual. How is it that the […]
Samandal: Picture Stories from Here and There
What is Samandal? Samandal is about comics, a trilingual publication dedicated to comics from the region and abroad that comes out quarterly in Arabic, English, and French. All the comics in Samandal are published under a Creative Commons license. And how does Creative Commons change commons? To answer that, we need to look at […]
Iran: January 2010-July 2010
January 2010: “There are rare moments when you feel like you’re living in a world without any borders. Without anyone to rule over you. One cannot help but to cherish these moments and wish them upon others. On the road to Shemshak from Tehran, the CD player played a tune from a movie soundtrack […]
The Chair Not Taken
A tale of politicians, seats, and struggles in a parliament far, far away. . . . Script, Design, and Animation by Zach Cohen. This video is his final project at the Shenkar School of Engineering and Design in Israel. Click here to view other works by Cohen. | Print
