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- Email: daniel.ibnzayd [at] inquisitor [dot] com
- Twitter: @DrennanElAwar
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Articles on Adoption
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On Adoption Resistance: Bridging False Divides
September 1, 2014 -
Racism, Class and Adoption: Facing Off With the 'Smiling Foxes' of NPR
January 16, 2014 -
Adoption, Surrogacy, and Birthright
April 15, 2013 -
The New Abolition: Ending Adoption in Our Time
August 18, 2012 -
Islamophobia and Adoption: Who Are the Civilized?
April 17, 2012 -
Re-evaluating Adoption: Validating the Local
February 11, 2008
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On Adoption Resistance: Bridging False Divides
Articles on Lebanon, Palestine, etc.
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Digging at “Ground Zero”: The Message of Radio Row
September 7, 2011 -
Words From the First Intifada
May 23, 2011 -
May 15: The Return to Palestine, from the Maroun Ar-Ras Border
May 21, 2011 -
A Black Panther in Beirut: Emory Douglas Goes to Lebanon
January 13, 2010
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Digging at “Ground Zero”: The Message of Radio Row
Articles on Art/Design/Culture
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Boycott, Divest, and Sanction
May 10, 2014 -
Resistance in Print: The Jamaa Al-Yad Collective
June 26, 2012 -
Sacha Cohen and Arab Minstrelsy
May 19, 2012 -
Voice Manifest: The theory and practice of collective expression
June 25th, 2012 -
Political Illustration: Lebanon and Beyond
December 7, 2011 -
Riots by Design: Resisting the London Olympics
December 1, 2011 -
Traversing Meanings: Remapping East and West
July 1, 2009 -
Brand America: Of False Promises and Snake Oil
July 1, 2009
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Boycott, Divest, and Sanction
Tag Archives: Islamophobia
On orphans, adoption, and Islam.
Many thanks to Asma Uddin and @AltMuslimah for allowing me the space to reply to the previous article I cited a few days ago. An excerpt: To conclude, in 1948 the United Nations defined an aspect of genocide to include … Continue reading
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Tagged adoption, Algeria, Antoura, Frantz Fanon, genocide, Islam, Islamophobia, Lebanon, orphans, Turkey
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@AltMuslimah : A reply.
In the article Placing Muslim Orphans Into Real Homes, a member of the board of an adoptive agency makes the astonishing claim that Muslims should adopt children, ideally, of course, through the author’s agency. I believe this is referred to … Continue reading
Islamophobia and adoption: Who are the civilized?
This paper started as a conference presentation at the Adoption Initiative Conference in 2012 with the theme “‘Best Interests of the Child?’: Race, Religion, and Rescue in Adoption”. The basis for it was sparked by an article that appeared in … Continue reading
