19 Sep 2007 @ 11:45, by Letecia Layson
Feminist Magazine is proud to welcome:
Feminist Algerian artist, Houria Niati will discuss her background as a young girl in her colonized country by the French. Today, she tries to debunk the Orientalist stereotypes about middle-Eastern women that still continue to linger in Western societies.
We will also talk to the first Persian woman pilot in Iran, Akram Monfared Arriya. Ms. Arriya will discuss her latest developments to help Persian women in humanitarian projects in the Islamic republic of Iran.
Also Featured on this show is one of the most powerful women in the scholarly arena. Swati Chattopadhyay is an architect and architectural historian who specializes in the ties between colonialism and spatial aspects of race, gender, and ethnicity in modern cities. She is the author of Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (Routledge, 2005), and co-editor of a special issue of the PostColonial Studies (Nov 2005) focusing on “the subaltern and the popular. Dr. Chattopadhyay is an associate professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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