Nadia is a Palestinian-American writer based in Detroit. She recently received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Wayne State University and plans to pursue graduate studies in Visual Culture/Criticism. She is an artist, writer, media maker and activist.
Currently Nadia is working with the Allied Media Conference, TheCulturalConnect, and writing for Detroit's Metro Times. She has written and contributed to numerous different zines and independent publications, and blogs at NoSnowHere.com.
Her interests include printmaking, fiber arts, Palestinian liberation, women of color feminism and art theory.
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12/02/2007 - 4:45 p.m. CST -- by Nadia Abou-Karr 
DETROIT: 12 November 2007
Congratulations to Jackie Salloum! Her new film Slingshot Hip Hop, a documentary about Palestinian hip hop artists, made it into the Sundance Film Festival! Check Ibn Bint Jbeil for more clips of her films and commentary, and visit Zapagringo to learn how you can help support post-production neccessitie... [Read More] |
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09/24/2007 - 8:38 a.m. CST -- by Nadia Abou-Karr
DETROIT: 24 September 2007 In May of this year, news from Jena, Lousiana spread throughout the African American and "of color" blogospheres. After black high school students enjoyed the shade of a typically "whites-only" tree on campus (on the permission of school authority figures), white students hung nooses from the tree and were given the sort of punishment that, at least when I was in school, is considered more of a vacation than a reprimand. In this context, those nooses speak very clearly. They say: We will kill you. Yet in the ensuing series of fights between black and white students, the white students received little to no repercussions, while six black students were charged with attempted second degree murder. Last week the blog-based activism around this case culminated ... [Read More] |
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08/01/2007 - 9:58 a.m. CST -- by Nadia Abou-Karr
Arab Americans: Resist, Don't Enlist
I'm disturbed by the gratuitous National Guard solicitation targeted to Arab Americans that I have been seeing in places like The Arab American News and Dearborn's Arab International Festival. I am bombarded with these misleading, exploitative ads on TV, in the movie theater, and now in my Arab American media? Am I the only one who thinks it's abusive and unfair for Arabs to advocate service in the American military to other Arabs? Are our lives worth so little that we should sacrifice them in service of a government that has inst... [Read More] |
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06/28/2007 - 10:34 p.m. CST -- by Nadia Abou-Karr
DETROIT, 29 June 2007, (Arabisto.com):
In part 1 of this post, I discussed the scapegoating and oppression of Palestinians within an "antisemitism" framework. I referenced the zine "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere: Making Resistance to Antisemitism Part of All of Our Movements." I also added the following disclaimer, which applies to this post as well:
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06/20/2007 - 7:53 p.m. CST -- by Nadia Abou-Karr
From ACCESS:
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06/13/2007 - 6:03 a.m. CST -- by Nadia Abou-Karr
Do Arabs Experience Antisemitism? (Part 1-Palestinians)
By Nadia Abou-Karr
DETROIT, 13 June 2007, ([Read More] |
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