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Ramadan in Reverse – The Robotics of the Egyptian onscreen presence

I’ve been dithering about writing about what I watched this Ramadan on Egyptian television, mainly because of how ‘little’ I watched. And most of what I watched I didn’t particularly like. Instead however I’m going to focus on the sci-fi entry for Ramadan 2022, In Our Home a Robot 2. By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhDThis […]

Sophia Arjana on the West's insatiable appetite for the Mystical and the Muslim

The Levant News Exclusive – By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD Dr. Sophia Rose Arjana, please introduce yourself to our readers. Your education, background and interests? I am an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Western Kentucky University. My department home is the Department of History. I hold a BA in Pacific Island Studies, an MA in […]

Iraqi women preparing for parliamentary elections in dire circumstances

A powerful mix of insecurity and traditional prejudice against more liberal female politicians put Awatef Rasheed off running for parliament when she returned to Iraq in 2014 after years abroad.Nada al-Jubori, a candidate in Iraq's upcoming parliamentary elections, speaks to her supporters in Baghdad, Iraq September 9, 2021. Seven years later, with Iraq less unstable, […]

Lost in Transition: Mackenzie Davis and Friends, between Marketing and the Male Gaze - Part II

By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD "We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge." --- Freud "A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man." […]

Lost in Transition: Mackenzie Davis and Friends, between Marketing and the Male Gaze - Part I

By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD Lieutenant Commander Data: “I wonder. What would Dr. Freud say about the symbolism of devouring oneself?” Counselor Deanna Troi: “Data – sometimes a cake is just a cake.” --- Star Trek: TNG, “Phantasms”, S07E06 “I wouldn’t have seen it if I hadn’t believed it.” --- Marshall McLuhan […]

Gender Benders: A Follow-Up on Mackenzie Davis and the Remakings of the Female Other – PART I

By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, “My country, right or wrong.” In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. --- […]

Qatar combats sexual harassement, even at its airport

Qatar’s public prosecutor has filed criminal charges against an unspecified number of police officers working at Qatar’s Hamad airport after women said they were invasively searched there last month. Some of the women were Australian and the issue has sparked outrage in Australia. Qatari officials said the searches were conducted in order to locate the […]

Saudi matchmaking turns high-tech

The traditional skills of the Kingdom’s matchmakers have survived many changes, and they are confident that amid rapid social changes among the younger generation and a technological revolution they can continue to ply their trade. As men and women enjoy opportunities to mingle and meet and attitudes across the country are starting to change, the […]

Trump strikes blow against gender-neutrality with Navy SEAL decision

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a military decision to make the Navy SEAL ethos gender-neutral was “ridiculous” and vowed to overturn it, his latest move to intervene in lower-level military affairs ahead of the Nov. 3 election. Earlier this week, the Navy said it would be making the elite commando force’s ethos gender-neutral, […]

Gender War turns on Women: The Case of J.K. Rowling

In a statement on her website, J.K. Rowling returned the Robert F. Kennedy ‘Ripple of Hope’ Human Rights Award given to her in December 2019. The decision came after president Kerry Kennedy issued a statement earlier this month to say that J.K. Rowling’s recently expressed views “diminishes the identity” of transgender people. Rowling was amongst […]

Lessons from the Flophouse: Late night cinema and picking on the wrong species of helpless white male - Part I

By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD “With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during their courtship. All their instincts of drama come out freshly with their wives. The artist is he in whom this emotionality normally absorbed by sex is […]

Splicing and Dicing: interview with Fantasy-SF author Asmaa Kadry

Emad El-Din Aysha: Tell me something about yourself, your CV? Asmaa Kadry: Forget CV’s, they’re highly overrated. I think you could say that I’m an eclectic soul: Internationally accredited Psychotherapist, Hypnotherapist & NLP life coach Public speaker & certified trainer Author whose written and published 10 books until now mostly novels of science-fiction / fantasy […]

UN praises UAE for women empowerment

Dr. Moza Al Shehhi, Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, UN Women, Liaison Office in Abu Dhabi, has welcomed the success of a training programme launched by the UAE to enable Arab women to conduct peacekeeping operations. During her speech marking International Day of United Nations […]

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