Dina Georgis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dina Georgis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dina |
| FAMILY NAME | Georgis |
| SIGNATURE | GEORGIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gohar Homayounpour, Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning
Queer Arab Sexualities and the Grind against Heteronormativity
Mejdulene Shomali's Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives is a book that I, and undoubtedly many others, have been waiting for. Not many books exist on queer Arab sexualities, and very few take up women exclusively. The books that do exist either focus on a particular historical period, have a religious emphasis in Islamic texts, or examine a particular nation such as Lebanon or the Maghreb. Between Banat exhumes Arab…
The trouble with research-creation
This paper reflects on a research-creation project that investigates the ways in which surveillance is experienced by youth as an embodiment that might be difficult to articulate in words but rather expressed affectively, through emotion and social practice. Our argument is that the aesthetic intervention provoked by research-creation can instantiate encounters that capture surveillance as an ineffable experience of everyday life. We situate our …
Play interrupted
Born into a legacy of conflict, any Palestinian child over 7 will have already experienced three wars in their lifetime. Growing up amidst the ruins of war and the anticipation of its re-emergence
The structures of love
Discarded Histories and Queer Affects in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red
This article takes up Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red (1998) as an allegory for the discarded history of queerness. The novel in verse rewrites the Greek myth of Herakles (Hercules) and the red-winged monster Geryon as a queer love story. In Carson’s rendition, Herakles is not a colonizer who murders Geryon to seize his red cattle but a lover who steals and breaks his fragile heart. Born hybrid in a modern-day context, Geryon struggles with na…
Better Story, The
Thinking Past Pride
This article offers a reading of the groundbreaking book Bareed Mista3jil: True Stories , a collection of the narratives of Lebanese queers. Here, I argue, a burgeoning collective queer experience is being mapped from the conditions of Western imperialism and globalization, from the legacies of a colonial past, and from everyday life in postwar Lebanon. Resisting the urge to reduce Arab queer identities as either Western or traditionally Arab, th…
The living archive of war in Rabih Mroué's Make Me Stop Smoking
Masculinities and the Aesthetics of Love
This article examines Rawi Hage's (2006 Hage , R. ( 2006 ). De Niro's Game . Toronto , Ontario , Canada : House of Anansi Press . [Google Scholar]) De Niro's Game and Hany Abu-Assad's (2005) Paradise Now for their capacity to give us insight into the meanings of racialized masculinities. Neither text represents a very consoling picture of men in war and conflict, but they have a great deal to teach us about the fragility that underpins masculinit…
Touched by injury
Informed by the critical humanisms of Hannah Arendt, Frantz Fanon, and Paul Gilroy, the authors argue for an orientation to teaching and learning that troubles the continuing effects of dehumanizing race logic. Reflecting on Paul Haggis's Oscar award winning film Crash from 2004, they suggest that the metaphor of racial ‘crashing’ captures what happens when we act out from experiences of racial injury instead of being touched by it. They propose …
The Perils of Belonging and Cosmopolitan Optimism
Hearing the Better Story
For over a year, Yann Martel's Life of Pi sat on my bedside table. Promised to be a story about a young Indian boy living on a boat with a tiger, I was uninspired to open it. But also unable to aba
Falling for Jazz
In Ann-Marie McDonald’s Fall on Your Knees, the tensions of migration and hybridity are configured through the perversity of desire and narratives of trauma. The story is set in a mining town in Cape Breton Island and represents a complexly diverse Canada, replete with scandal, hatred, and slippery racial dynamics. When this affect is unbound, it returns not only to the lost time of past racial traumas but also to the lost time of sexual traumas.…
Introductory Notes. Memory Foretelling the Story
I In an essay that sketches a postmodern geography of western racisms, ethnicities, and identities, Ali Rattansi sets out to challenge the constancy of representational narratives of self and identity that foreground the coherent and rationalist archetypes of modernist discourses. Disrupting the conscious logic of intention and rationality, Rattansi posits the imaginary space of the psychic as an orientation from which unconscious desires, split…
Thinking Past Pride
This article offers a reading of the groundbreaking book Bareed Mista3jil: True Stories , a collection of the narratives of Lebanese queers. Here, I argue, a burgeoning collective queer experience is being mapped from the conditions of Western imperialism and globalization, from the legacies of a colonial past, and from everyday life in postwar Lebanon. Resisting the urge to reduce Arab queer identities as either Western or traditionally Arab, th…
Hearing the Better Story
For over a year, Yann Martel's Life of Pi sat on my bedside table. Promised to be a story about a young Indian boy living on a boat with a tiger, I was uninspired to open it. But also unable to aba
The trouble with research-creation
This paper reflects on a research-creation project that investigates the ways in which surveillance is experienced by youth as an embodiment that might be difficult to articulate in words but rather expressed affectively, through emotion and social practice. Our argument is that the aesthetic intervention provoked by research-creation can instantiate encounters that capture surveillance as an ineffable experience of everyday life. We situate our …
Masculinities and the Aesthetics of Love
This article examines Rawi Hage's (2006 Hage , R. ( 2006 ). De Niro's Game . Toronto , Ontario , Canada : House of Anansi Press . [Google Scholar]) De Niro's Game and Hany Abu-Assad's (2005) Paradise Now for their capacity to give us insight into the meanings of racialized masculinities. Neither text represents a very consoling picture of men in war and conflict, but they have a great deal to teach us about the fragility that underpins masculinit…
The Perils of Belonging and Cosmopolitan Optimism
Play interrupted
Born into a legacy of conflict, any Palestinian child over 7 will have already experienced three wars in their lifetime. Growing up amidst the ruins of war and the anticipation of its re-emergence
Falling for Jazz
In Ann-Marie McDonald’s Fall on Your Knees, the tensions of migration and hybridity are configured through the perversity of desire and narratives of trauma. The story is set in a mining town in Cape Breton Island and represents a complexly diverse Canada, replete with scandal, hatred, and slippery racial dynamics. When this affect is unbound, it returns not only to the lost time of past racial traumas but also to the lost time of sexual traumas.…
Introductory Notes. Memory Foretelling the Story
I In an essay that sketches a postmodern geography of western racisms, ethnicities, and identities, Ali Rattansi sets out to challenge the constancy of representational narratives of self and identity that foreground the coherent and rationalist archetypes of modernist discourses. Disrupting the conscious logic of intention and rationality, Rattansi posits the imaginary space of the psychic as an orientation from which unconscious desires, split…
Hearing the Better Story
For over a year, Yann Martel's Life of Pi sat on my bedside table. Promised to be a story about a young Indian boy living on a boat with a tiger, I was uninspired to open it. But also unable to aba
The Perils of Belonging and Cosmopolitan Optimism
Touched by injury
Informed by the critical humanisms of Hannah Arendt, Frantz Fanon, and Paul Gilroy, the authors argue for an orientation to teaching and learning that troubles the continuing effects of dehumanizing race logic. Reflecting on Paul Haggis's Oscar award winning film Crash from 2004, they suggest that the metaphor of racial ‘crashing’ captures what happens when we act out from experiences of racial injury instead of being touched by it. They propose …
Masculinities and the Aesthetics of Love
This article examines Rawi Hage's (2006 Hage , R. ( 2006 ). De Niro's Game . Toronto , Ontario , Canada : House of Anansi Press . [Google Scholar]) De Niro's Game and Hany Abu-Assad's (2005) Paradise Now for their capacity to give us insight into the meanings of racialized masculinities. Neither text represents a very consoling picture of men in war and conflict, but they have a great deal to teach us about the fragility that underpins masculinit…
Better Story, The
Thinking Past Pride
This article offers a reading of the groundbreaking book Bareed Mista3jil: True Stories , a collection of the narratives of Lebanese queers. Here, I argue, a burgeoning collective queer experience is being mapped from the conditions of Western imperialism and globalization, from the legacies of a colonial past, and from everyday life in postwar Lebanon. Resisting the urge to reduce Arab queer identities as either Western or traditionally Arab, th…
The living archive of war in Rabih Mroué's Make Me Stop Smoking
Discarded Histories and Queer Affects in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red
This article takes up Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red (1998) as an allegory for the discarded history of queerness. The novel in verse rewrites the Greek myth of Herakles (Hercules) and the red-winged monster Geryon as a queer love story. In Carson’s rendition, Herakles is not a colonizer who murders Geryon to seize his red cattle but a lover who steals and breaks his fragile heart. Born hybrid in a modern-day context, Geryon struggles with na…
The structures of love
Play interrupted
Born into a legacy of conflict, any Palestinian child over 7 will have already experienced three wars in their lifetime. Growing up amidst the ruins of war and the anticipation of its re-emergence
The trouble with research-creation
This paper reflects on a research-creation project that investigates the ways in which surveillance is experienced by youth as an embodiment that might be difficult to articulate in words but rather expressed affectively, through emotion and social practice. Our argument is that the aesthetic intervention provoked by research-creation can instantiate encounters that capture surveillance as an ineffable experience of everyday life. We situate our …
Queer Arab Sexualities and the Grind against Heteronormativity
Mejdulene Shomali's Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives is a book that I, and undoubtedly many others, have been waiting for. Not many books exist on queer Arab sexualities, and very few take up women exclusively. The books that do exist either focus on a particular historical period, have a religious emphasis in Islamic texts, or examine a particular nation such as Lebanon or the Maghreb. Between Banat exhumes Arab…
Gohar Homayounpour, Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning
Sociology (13 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · Art (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works)