Check out AASA Member Stanley Thangaraj’s latest blog post, “Maddening pleasures, subsequent silences,” on From the Square: The NYU Press Blog. Short Excerpt below: March Madness is just kicking off, and ESPN has already predicted that this year’s tournament will see over $9 billion in bets and gambling. From offices to college campuses, March Madness…
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Check out AASA Member Stanley Thangarj’s blog post “Boys Being Boys: Can we Think Otherwise?” featured on Neighborhoods and Nations: The Blog of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. Short excerpt below: Last night, the Super Bowl, as expected, ran a gamut of creative, hilarious, and shamelessly sexist ads. Alongside the Victoria’s…
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Check out AASA Member Stanley Thangarj’s blog post “Asian men on TV: Waiting for the (onscreen) kiss,” featured on From the Square: The NYU Press Blog. Excerpted below: Popular culture is one important realm where Asian Americans, along with other communities of color, negotiate and manage the representations of their communities. In particular, visibility in…
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Check out AASA Member Kenneth Habib’s 2013 Interview on Fairuz, featured on Afropop Worldwide. You can read the full text here, or listen below: Kenneth Habib is an Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology, Music Theory, and Music History at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He wrote his PhD dissertation on Fairuz, the…
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AASA board member Randa Kayyali recently published an article in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) on Fair Trade and Palestine. Check out the article by clicking on this link.
Students and faculty from the University of Michigan’s Arab and Muslim American Studies program, including (AASA board member Evelyn Alsultany) were recently interviewed by the Huffington Post about discrimination on the UMich campus. Check out the full article by clicking this link.
Please join us in celebrating AASA Board member Professor Evelyn Alsultany as she’s been awarded the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From the University of Michigan’s The University Record article: Seven faculty members who have shown dedication to developing cultural and ethnic diversity at the University of…
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AASA President Elect Louise Cainkar was featured on Radio Islam’s episode:”Kickstarting Arab American Heritage Month” on April 8, 2015. Check out the episode below! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/200020785″]
