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Can we imagine a counterpublic founded and inhabited by Islamic and/or Middle Eastern women?

Can we imagine a counterpublic founded and inhabited by Islamic and/or Middle Eastern women?. Can we imagine a counterpublic founded and inhabited by Islamic and/or Middle Eastern women? If so, what would that counterpublic look and sound like?.

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Can we imagine a counterpublic founded and inhabited by Islamic and/or Middle Eastern women?

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  1. Can we imagine a counterpublic founded and inhabited by Islamic and/or Middle Eastern women?

  2. Can we imagine a counterpublic founded and inhabited by Islamic and/or Middle Eastern women? If so, what would that counterpublic look and sound like?

  3. Women of Allah (1993-1997) Photographs by ShirinNeshat

  4. Rapture (1999)Video by ShirinNeshat

  5. Possessed (2001)Video by ShirinNeshatin collaboration with SussanDeyhim

  6. Turbulent (1998) Video by ShirinNeshatin collaboration with SussanDeyhim

  7. Turbulent, video mock-up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2DNMG2s_O0

  8. Duel screen structure – highlights the gender binary, there are no mixing of the voices and spaces Men – performing for and celebrating each other, his song is cultural and historical, love song (to a woman, to the other men?) Woman – performing to no one, to herself; her song is non-verbal, a gesticulation related to her body (not religion), a sonic disturbance to the patriarchal order (Inshirah?)

  9. A counterpublic of Islamic/Middle Eastern women What kind of affect does her song produce? Among the men? Among us? What kind of action, ethics, and subject positions?

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