ghenwa

associate prof, modern arabic lit @uchicago. i think and write about beirut (and leaving it). it's "not research" according to federal guidelines.

[ghenwa @profghen]

friends and especially fellow scholars who do work on MENA and can't access archives this year: consider hiring a Lebanon-based researcher through the Scholarly Mutual Aid for Lebanon site: https://t.co/YYWcYzmKOh

[Gaming Islam @gamingislamshow]

Do you want to hear more about Gaming Islam as well as other scholarship on games & Islamic history? Vote for our panels @sxsw and @SXSWEDU (links below)

SXSW: https://t.co/JlO9lvWIb7
SXSWedu:https://t.co/Zbnss1GwSq

[The Chicago Maroon @ChicagoMaroon]

“As instructors at the University of Chicago, we object—in the strongest possible terms—to your decision to deploy armed police against a peaceful encampment of our students,” over 275 faculty members write in an open letter to President Alivisatos.

https://t.co/2oKmudjsdy

[ghenwa @profghen]

@docstobar @Orientastic feels like this could be the sneak preview of our CoD episode 😂🥴😭

[ghenwa @profghen]

@warghetti @mayamikdashi the woman with the rifle drives me particularly nuts

[ghenwa @profghen]

@docstobar @AdomGetachew happy to share if you want, @AdomGetachew! Also check out Ifdal Elsaket's piece on Jungle films in Egypt in ASJ XXV:2 (2017) https://t.co/AOkGDpQkOG

[ghenwa @profghen]

come see what we're getting up to tonight at 7:30 chicago time! event details @UCGrayCenter website

[UChicago Arts & Humanities @UChicagoAHD]

.@profghen expands the @UCGrayCenter's global reach with FarBar—an online program to support artists from across the globe.

https://t.co/o158iwicna

[ghenwa @profghen]

so happy for @hshakry and katie (and the other winners I don't know)! what an amazing lineup of books!!

[MLA News @MLAnews]

Congratulations to all of the winners of MLA publication prizes! An amazing group! https://t.co/eGhfeeIZnA

[ghenwa @profghen]

@mlynxqualey @warghetti @bhakti_shringa there's also a great piece by Beth Holt titled 'Zahra and its Critics' in the edited volume Arabic Literature for the Classroom.

[ghenwa @profghen]

@mlynxqualey @warghetti @bhakti_shringa thanks for the shout-out, friends!

[ghenwa @profghen]

@amiraha

[ghenwa @profghen]

join the Gray Center and Amira Hanafi in this collective, collaborative, critical multilingual #translation of the #englishunityact! info @ https://t.co/D6L8XKH56W @CMES_UChicago @UChicagoHum @UChicagoArts

[CMES-UChicago @CMES_UChicago]

Happening tomorrow!
Register: https://t.co/OCicPKXrdo

[Jana Traboulsi جنى طرابلسي @jana_trab0ulsi]

لمّ المدينة

[ghenwa @profghen]

@SDFahrenthold @mhayoun @ArabAmericanMus mabrouk!

[ghenwa @profghen]

thinking of how many times I said/wrote 'hamdillah' this past week, and paused wearily at this reflexive (yet deeply felt) gratitude. as @amiranu2ta writes, we have to learn to say we are not ok.

[Sherine Al Shallah | شيرين الشلاح @amiranu2ta]

I want to tell her that the normalisation of her suffering has been a ritual and her coping has been a myth - my piece in the @Postcolonials newsletter https://t.co/5RY2d1Ti6I

[ghenwa @profghen]

💔💔💔

[Basharat Peer @BasharatPeer]

"A deep bass rattling through the building. And then a roar for seven, eight, nine seconds, an eternity. A sound that could be made only by the world itself breaking open." Beautiful, brilliant essay by @warghetti on Beirut in @nytopinion

https://t.co/kMpvDHcaAP

[ghenwa @profghen]

@meznaqato but we're happy to hear more ideas of how to handle this more explicitly. if you or others have comments, dm or email: [email protected]. thanks!

[ghenwa @profghen]

@meznaqato some of this is already in the language on the home page