Getting Comfortable
Getting Comfortable
UCCS Students
Episode 13: Either/Or, Neither/Nor, America/Amreeka
44 minutes Posted Jun 2, 2023 at 8:20 pm.
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Join Amanda and Cat as they discuss the origins of the Arabic word for America, Amreeka. They wrap up the course's content by engaging with Hamid Dabashi's argument on breaking binaries. The episode connects earlier readings and Dabashi's conclusion that there isn't an "East" nor a "West" after all.

The works referenced in the episode include Alia Malek's A Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Retold Through Arab-American Lives (New York: Free Press, 2009) and Hamid Dabashi's "Breaking the Binary," and "But There is Neither East nor West," in Being a Muslim in the World (Palgrave Pivot, 2013).