Amira Jarmakani
Biographic Data
| ID | 645608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amira Jarmakani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amira |
| FAMILY NAME | Jarmakani |
| SIGNATURE | JARMAKANI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rendering Absence in the War on Terror
Other| March 01 2021 Rendering Absence in the War on Terror: Molly Crabapple’s Sequential Art Amira Jarmakani Amira Jarmakani AMIRA JARMAKANI is professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at San Diego State University. She is author of Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. (2008) and An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror (2015) and president of the Arab…
Shari'a Barbie's Afterlives
This article investigates a sprawling archive of memes (about "Shakira law," "shari'a Barbie," and the "jihad squad,") and incorporates analysis of the original Serial podcast (about the case of Adnan Syed) to look at the role of metadata and dataveillance in criminalizing and apprehending Muslims. Given technological innovations, like autocorrect functions that "correct" conversations about the "racialization" of Muslims to the "radicalization" …
Shiny Happy Imperialism: An Affective Exploration of “Ways of Life” in the War on Terror
How does the prospect of endless war against a terrifying abstraction mobilize and perpetuate support for its cause? While the war on terror clearly trades in notions of fear, outrage, and horror it also mobilizes a whole set of feelings less obviously associated with terror – the condescending, intimate colonial desires associated with “soft” power and humanitarian tactics. Considering romance as a lens through which to understand popular narrat…
An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror
A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called "desert romances." Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the cultura…
Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances
Through a consideration of desert romances (mass-market romances whose hero is a sultan, sheikh, or desert prince), this essay argues that the racialization of Arabs and Muslims in contemporary popular culture operates by conflating ethnicity, religion, geography, and the notion of civilization. As the racialization of actual Arabs and Muslims in the global North has become more overt, the representational racialization of sheikhs in desert roman…
“The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror
Since 2001, sheikh‐themed romance novels have burgeoned in popularity to such an extent that they compose a standard subseries for major distributors such as Harlequin and its subsidiaries, Silhouette and Mills & Boon. If romance novels have long been the subject of vibrant feminist inquiry, the increased popularity of the sheikh character in mass‐market romances in recent years suggests their further relevance to contemporary U.S. political and …
Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects ed by Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber
Book Review| July 01 2009 Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects ed by Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects, Jamal, Amaney; Naber, Nadine, eds. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 378. ISBN 978-0-8156-3177-4. Amira Jarmakani Amira Jarmakani Georgia State University Search for other works by t…
Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U. S.
A fascinating demonstration of how U.S. representations of veils, harems, and belly dancers have operated as nostalgic and exotic symbols to help rationalize dominant U.S. narratives about power and p
Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances
Through a consideration of desert romances (mass-market romances whose hero is a sultan, sheikh, or desert prince), this essay argues that the racialization of Arabs and Muslims in contemporary popular culture operates by conflating ethnicity, religion, geography, and the notion of civilization. As the racialization of actual Arabs and Muslims in the global North has become more overt, the representational racialization of sheikhs in desert roman…
Shari'a Barbie's Afterlives
This article investigates a sprawling archive of memes (about "Shakira law," "shari'a Barbie," and the "jihad squad,") and incorporates analysis of the original Serial podcast (about the case of Adnan Syed) to look at the role of metadata and dataveillance in criminalizing and apprehending Muslims. Given technological innovations, like autocorrect functions that "correct" conversations about the "racialization" of Muslims to the "radicalization" …
Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U. S.
A fascinating demonstration of how U.S. representations of veils, harems, and belly dancers have operated as nostalgic and exotic symbols to help rationalize dominant U.S. narratives about power and p
Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects ed by Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber
Book Review| July 01 2009 Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects ed by Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber Race and Arab Americans Before and After 9/11: From Invisible Citizens to Visible Subjects, Jamal, Amaney; Naber, Nadine, eds. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii, 378. ISBN 978-0-8156-3177-4. Amira Jarmakani Amira Jarmakani Georgia State University Search for other works by t…
“The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror
Since 2001, sheikh‐themed romance novels have burgeoned in popularity to such an extent that they compose a standard subseries for major distributors such as Harlequin and its subsidiaries, Silhouette and Mills & Boon. If romance novels have long been the subject of vibrant feminist inquiry, the increased popularity of the sheikh character in mass‐market romances in recent years suggests their further relevance to contemporary U.S. political and …
Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances
Through a consideration of desert romances (mass-market romances whose hero is a sultan, sheikh, or desert prince), this essay argues that the racialization of Arabs and Muslims in contemporary popular culture operates by conflating ethnicity, religion, geography, and the notion of civilization. As the racialization of actual Arabs and Muslims in the global North has become more overt, the representational racialization of sheikhs in desert roman…
An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror
A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called "desert romances." Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the cultura…
Shiny Happy Imperialism: An Affective Exploration of “Ways of Life” in the War on Terror
How does the prospect of endless war against a terrifying abstraction mobilize and perpetuate support for its cause? While the war on terror clearly trades in notions of fear, outrage, and horror it also mobilizes a whole set of feelings less obviously associated with terror – the condescending, intimate colonial desires associated with “soft” power and humanitarian tactics. Considering romance as a lens through which to understand popular narrat…
Rendering Absence in the War on Terror
Other| March 01 2021 Rendering Absence in the War on Terror: Molly Crabapple’s Sequential Art Amira Jarmakani Amira Jarmakani AMIRA JARMAKANI is professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at San Diego State University. She is author of Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. (2008) and An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror (2015) and president of the Arab…
Shari'a Barbie's Afterlives
This article investigates a sprawling archive of memes (about "Shakira law," "shari'a Barbie," and the "jihad squad,") and incorporates analysis of the original Serial podcast (about the case of Adnan Syed) to look at the role of metadata and dataveillance in criminalizing and apprehending Muslims. Given technological innovations, like autocorrect functions that "correct" conversations about the "racialization" of Muslims to the "radicalization" …
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