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Politics and Solidarities in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn

Politics and Solidarities in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn

by Beverly | Oct 23, 2018 | Literature, Precarity, Turkish German Community, Turkish German culture

I’m in great company in the latest volume of the Gegenwartsliteratur  yearbook.This volume focuses on the work of Emine Sevgi Özdamar. Head over to the abstracts and table of contents.  BEVERLY M. WEBER, “Precarious Intimacies: Politics and...
Journalist Mely Kiyak transforms hate mail into spoken word act

Journalist Mely Kiyak transforms hate mail into spoken word act

by Beverly | Mar 11, 2015 | German studies, Islam in Europe, Racism in Europe, Turkish German Community, Violence

German Journalist Makes Light of Hate Mail in Spoken Word Act ?Kurdish-German Journalist Makes Light Of Hate Mail In Spoken Word ActNPR’s Audie Cornish meets journalist Mely Kiyak, a German-born daughter of Kurds from Turkey. In her spoken word performance, she...

Germany’s Turkish Community and the Istanbul Protests: A Divided Community

by Beverly | Jun 26, 2013 | Turkish German Community

http://en.qantara.de/A-Divided-Community/21235c23772i1p523/index.html Germany’s Turkish community is keeping a close eye on events in Istanbul. Many hope the young people in Taksim Square will prevail. Others are saying nothing. By Naomi Conrad

Und was ist mit uns? – Mely Kiyak

by Beverly | Mar 12, 2010 | Feminism, Islam in Europe, Racism in Europe, Turkish German Community

Die Debatte um den neuen Feminismus ist eine realitätsferne Veranstaltung weißer, christlicher Mittelschichtsfrauen. Dass muss sich ändern. VON MELY KIYAK “Nicht ein einziges Mal tauchte der Hinweis auf, dass es Frauen in anderen sozialen Schichten gibt, die...

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Violence and Gender in the "New" Europe: Islam in German Culture

"Weber's study undertakes a much-needed comprehensive investigation of the contemporary 'regime of gender violence,' that is, the key role violence has played in defining the position of Muslims in the German public sphere (in the larger European context). Through nuanced theorizing as well as careful historical contextualization, Weber develops an intersectional framework for analyzing gendered violence in a way that does not reinforce racialized discourses of cultural and/or religious difference." [more...]

Palgrave Macmillan, January 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-00708-7, ISBN10: 1-137-00708-7
252 pages.

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