The Global Women’s History Project Invites You
April 14th, 2011
Scanlon Banquet Hall,
Westfield State University

12pm
Video clips on 'Gender and Arab Pro-Democracy Movements', Gathering and discussion with Manal Hamzeh.
Scanlon Living Room

2pm
Gathering with Manal Hamzeh. Refreshments.
Screening of CARAMEL, acclaimed and fun loving Lebanese film directed by Ms. Nadine Labki Caramel was distributed in over 40 countries, easily becoming the most internationally acclaimed and exposed Lebanese film to date. The story focuses on the lives of five Lebanese women dealing with issues such as forbidden love, binding traditions, repressed sexuality, the struggle to accept the natural process of age, and duty vs. desire. Labaki's film is unique for not showcasing a war-ravaged Beirut but rather a warm and inviting locale where people deal with universal issues.
Faculty Center, Parenzo 215

4pm
World Cafe (filled)

7pm
Presentation and Discussion, Manal Hamzeh. Refreshments from Mosaic Cafe.
Scanlon Banquet Hall

8:30pm
Poetry from Teatro Vida’s Eilanie Alvelo, Carolyn Duran, Narelle Thomas, Emmy Cepeda, (Magdalena Gomez,
Artistic Director), Springfield, MA. and Westfield State students.

Thursday, April 14
Manal Hamzeh
Deveiling the Hijabs
Scanlon Banquet Hall
7 PM
Click here to listen to an interview with Manal (.mp3)
Manal Hamzeh Brochure

DeVeiling the Hijabs: An Exposure of a Genderizing Discourse in the Lives of muslim girls

Manal Hamzeh is an assistant professor at Department of Sociology and Women’s Studies of New Mexico State University (NMSU). Dr. Hamzeh holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from NMSU (May 2007).
 
Dr. Hamzeh teaches courses in arab-muslim feminisms, feminist research methods, and feminist postcolonial theories. Dr. Hamzeh’s line of research focuses on understanding muslim girls negotiate normative discourses. Her research is guided by a commitment to work with muslim girls, to challenge and interrupt any of the hegemonizing discourses in their lives, and to find with them more democratic and equitable learning opportunities. Dr. Hamzeh approaches her research as an arabyyah/muslimah in exile guided by arab-muslim feminisms and critical feminist postcolonial theories.
 
Prior to coming to NMSU (1987-2003), Dr. Hamzeh pioneered and practiced educational audiology in Jordan and Palestine. During this period, she was active in the regional and national feminist and people with disabilities movements. With the escalation of the regional neo-colonizing wars, she was forced to leave her home twice—out of Jerusalem in 2002 and out of Amman in 2003.
 
Dr. Hamzeh’s dissertation, “A De-Veiling Narrative Inquiry: Entry and Agency in Body Stories of Muslim Girls" received the Lawrence F. Locke Outstanding Dissertation Award of the American Educational Research Association’s Special Interest Group of Research on Learning and Instruction in Physical Education, March, 2008, New York.