Our new course Design Histories in Southwest Asia & North Africa: Voices from the SWANA Diaspora starts on Saturday, May 13th! We would love to have you in class, use this link to register. See you all during class 👋🏽💻 #bipocdesignhistory#SWANAhistory
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The course I’ve been putting together Design Histories in Southwest Asia & North Africa: Voices from the SWANA Diaspora goes live on Saturday✨ the speakers are incredible researchers and cultural practitioners. #designhistory#bipochistory
Please join us https://t.co/gxBU7upiS1
No words could possibly describe the utter magnificence that is the 1982 World Cup song of the Kuwait national football team, "our camel lovely camel". I will try.🧵
More people have discovered my Ph.D research on twitter than anywhere else.
Here are 6 threads summarizing my dissertation, "The Invention of Palestine", a study of origins and development of 'Palestine' and 'the Palestinians' from ancient times to the present, a 🧵
I’m honored to announce this book and exhibition on a history of protest typography with @Lett_Arc and @Polymodestudio so many collaborators and visionaries influenced this, made props to my co-curator @stewf
is REALLY harsh considering I didn’t have much say on how the class was structured. i tried to make it a point in the classroom to voice that because I don’t believe students should be seen as production machines. Yet, here I am with this rating :)
as a professor, I’m not really sure how I feel about rate my professor. i wish it was designed in a way that doesn’t make things feel so black + white and more of a discussion. I’m totally for empowering students to voice their opinions but…
I’m not even sure why I decided to read my ratings. I understand that there are things I need to work on as an educator but to get a rating that so blatantly says “randa is easily the worst professor I’ve ever had” because of the way I taught the class…
I spent a year writing this article + I’m so happy and excited to share that it’s finally published. This piece of writing is deeply rooted in my Arab identity that has been shaped by stories + finding ways to our (re)claim histories
https://t.co/mqR8Ui7qLg
Removing a Christmas tree has everything to do with superiority and elitism in my biased opinion. This is how regressive societies are bred. Aside from Christian expats and Kuwaitis residing here, Christian societies within the Gulf date back to the 4th century. 1/3