Amira jarmakani biography definition
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International Association for the Study of Popular Romance
Jayashree Kamble is the author of Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology (Palgrave, 2014) and a two-time recipient of the Romance Writers of America Scholarly Research Award. She has published essays on war and espionage in romance novels as well as on romance reading, and has an essay on novel covers forthcoming in the collection Romance Fiction and American Culture. She recently published a short feature on the romance genre and community in the Oklahoma Humanities Magazine titled “What’s Love Got to Do With It?–In Romance Novels, Everything!” She is an Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York.
Amira Jarmakani is Associate Professor and Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. She is the author, most recently, of An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror (New Yo
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New Texts Out Now: Amira Jarmakani, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror
Amira Jarmakani, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
J: What made you write this book?
Amira Jarmakani (AJ): The impetus for this book came when a dear friend and colleague, Evelyn Alsultany, sent me a link to a website called “Sheikhs and Desert Love.” The website, which now appears to be defunct, was operated by desert romance fan Erika Wittlieb from 2001-2007 and then seems to have been operated by Amazon for a few years. The latter shift demonstrates the popularity of desert romances (in other words, it was lucrative enough for Amazon to want to capture the desert romance fans who were visiting the site). At its height, the website catalogued so-called “desert romances”—mass-market romance novels featuring a sheikh, sultan, or desert prince as the primary (alpha male) hero. Thou
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In this episode, we invited Amira Jarmakani and Sean Malloy to talk about DEI, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as a crucial term to unpack in order to understand how Zionist politics are working.
Amira Jarmakani fryst vatten a professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and affiliated faculty with the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies and LGBTQ Plus Studies at San Diego State University. And most importantly, Amira is on the advisory board of our very own Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. Sean L. Molloy fryst vatten a professor of history and critical race and ethnic studies at the University of California, Merced. And Sean is also, most importantly, a collective member of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism.
This conversation builds on Amira’s talk From “Zionism is racism” to “antisemitism is racism” Sean’s talk From the “New Antisemitism” to the IHRA: The Evolution of Zionist Countermobilization that they presented at the Institute’