Amal A

• Gender: Female
• Astrological Sign: Capricorn
• Industry: Construction
• Occupation: Hate it!
• Location: After The Last Sky
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About Me

These are improvisations: neither a manifesto nor a treatise because life is too complicated for either. Yet, I'm improvising as an Arab--Palestinian-- woman with a progressive point of view always under construction. Since I often find myself caught between anti-Arab racism and arab reactionary politics, both of which threaten to gag me, I'm raising my voice against both, hoping in the process to contribute an improvised note to a progressive Arab blogosphere.

The first time you had your shoes taken off - how surprised were you to see that you still had toes?

Toes? What toes? Where?

Interests

• Feminism
• Palestine
• Arabic literature
• Arab pop culture
• good books
• secularism.

Favorite Movies

• Divine Intervention
• La Strada
• West Beirut
• The Silences of the Palace
• Black and White Arabic films

Favorite Music

• Arabic Music
• Bob Marely
• John Lennon
• Pete Seeger
• Salsa
• and anything that keeps me awake while driving.

Favorite Books

• Anna Karenina
• I Saw Ramallah
• Crossing the River
• Middlemarch
• The Mill on the Floss
• Beloved
• Atonement
• Middlesex
• After the Last Sky
• The Blinding Absence of Light
• I Love You Stinky Face
• Pablo Neruda's poetry ...

My Blogs	Team Members
Julian's Imagination
Improvisations: Arab Woman Progressive Voice
Queer Politics Israel Palestine	Samira Saraya Haneen Maikey gilhoch