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Starting off with “Me as a Writer” I still feel the same way about myself as a writer. Writing has become something I somewhat dread doing. Especially when it comes to topics that I am not interested or educated in, I find it extremely hard to get my ideas to flow together. I have struggled […]

The film The Sheik is a portrayal of oriental romance. Similar to Aladdin, this film Americanizes Arabic countries and Arabs as a whole. Diana’s features represent Arabs but still contain a lot of American characteristics similar to Jasmine in Aladdin. Diana becomes a representation of how Eastern women hold less power than Western women. This […]

On November 7th I was able to attend a campus event featuring author Nnedi Okorafor. Nnedi Okorafor discussed her two published books titled “Noor” and “Binti.” I really enjoyed how she was able to open up to the audience about her personal life and why she chose such powerful characters in her books. She brought […]

On Friday September 30th, the day after I watched the play, I was able to attend a roundtable discussion that was held aiming at educating the audience about certain scenarios that may have been overlooked or any further questions about the play. During the discussion, I was able to learn about how white supremacy was […]

On September 29th, I was able to attend an on campus play titles “We are Proud to Present.” The beginning of the play was very comedic as most of the audience was continuously laughing at the controversial jokes that were being made. As the play went on, there was a shift in the tone of […]

After watching a majority of the film, the film appears to be extremely problematic. Referring to Sabu as a slave was one of the main issues that stood out to be. The film is contributing to problematic topics such as slavery which appears to be normalized throughout the film. Sabu is treated very poorly by […]

How does the article we read for today have implications for our reading and understanding of Mary Zimmerman’s Arabian Nights? Both the article that was read for today’s class and Mary Zimmerman’s version of the Arabian Nights include extremely harsh misconceptions and stereotypes. Whether she intended to support such problematic stereotypes by including them in […]

In “The Orientalist Photograph” the author’s claim is “In the Orientalist photograph, the fragmented images of the geographic region encompassing the Middle East and North Africa are unified through a system of ideological denotations, which figures it as a network of exotic signifiers” (11). Although the Orient is often viewed in a negative way, it […]

After falling in love and knowing they were meant to be in each other’s lives forever, Aladdin finally proposes to Jasmine in the most romantic way possible. He sets up flowers and rose pedals, a big beautiful sign saying “Marry Me?” and pictures of all their memories together. Jasmine is in complete shock as she […]

After rereading Said for the third time, I noticed that rereading such a complex text a few times helped me understand the passage even more. A lot more of the paragraphs made a lot more sense and it was almost like rewatching a movie and finding new details. It was also a lot easier to […]