Creative Encounter Public Art Project - Revised

_________________________________________ Creative Encounter: A Tri-‐City Public Art Project

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CREATIVE ENCOUNTER: A TRI-‐CITY PUBLIC ART PROJECT Executive Summary Alongside the Art of the Arab Spring Conference (April 18-‐20, 2013 at SECCA), we propose a Creative Encounter: a tri-‐city public art project. Visiting public artists will collaborate with local public artists in Winston Salem, Chapel Hill, and Durham to create pieces examining the role of a citizen artist, referencing and redefining what it means to advocate for one's community and to be an agent of change within the larger political process. We are providing a public space for North Carolina citizens to engage in a meaningful way with artists from the Middle East, opening an exciting space for dialogue that is virtually nonexistent in the mainstream American world. The first portion of this Creative Encounter is proposed for April 10-‐20, 2013, when we will welcome select Egyptian and Tunisian artists to create public pieces of art in each of the three cities, to speak in classes at UNC and Duke and give talks at the Fed Ex Global Education Center and the John Hope Franklin Center regarding art in the Arab Spring, and to participate in the Art of the Arab Spring Conference at SECCA. During this visit, the artists will meet and work with American artists to initiate the second portion of this Creative Encounter, an intercultural public art collaboration to take place in the three cities in the Fall 2013. In that collaboration, we envision the international group of artists working together in public view to craft three original pieces. Faculty on each campus will be recruited to incorporate discussion of the artwork and the collaborative process into their classes through the Fall 2013 semester and beyond. The three public art pieces, along with the film archive of the Winston Salem collaboration, will serve as ongoing stimulators of conversation about the role of the citizen artist on a university campus, in a state, in a nation, and within the international community. Rationale & Proposed Activities For many of us who watched the Arab Spring unfold from afar, our vision of the movement is dominated by images of Arabic calligraphy and stylized portraits of soon-‐to-‐be-‐fallen leaders on building walls, infusing the architecture of the city with catalysts for change and expressions of opposition. This evolved manifestation of “public art" has an ever-‐increasing impact on the way community members interact with the space around them. It began as a method for urban youth to mark their territory, and has developed into a way of reclaiming space and exercising artistic and political agency. Creative Encounter Part 1: Prior to the Art of the Arab Spring Conference, we propose an eight-‐to-‐ten day public art project featuring the visiting Egyptian and Tunisian artists (April 10-‐20, 2013). In this Creative Encounter we will construct three freestanding public walls, one situated on the quad at Polk Place at UNC, one in the Arts Annex or the Graffiti Tunnel at Duke, and one outside the Hanes Brands Theatre in Winston Salem during the high traffic RiverRun Film Festival. In these spaces, the visiting artists will have free reign to bring their thoughts to life on one side of the wall. On the other side, passersby and observers can add their own experiences and impulses regarding art as a revolutionary tool to the wall. We feel it is imperative that each artist be in control of the creative process from the onset. We do, however, hope for a kind of cohesiveness between the three resulting pieces so that we can discuss their work as a part of the conference. Our hope is that these walls will afford each participant the opportunity to reflect on their role as citizen artists, as they will have the chance to contribute a meaningful form of expression to society. We propose that this creative process be filmed at the venue in Winston Salem (and possibly the venues at Duke and UNC), with the help of filmmakers at the UNC School of the Arts.


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As the visiting public artists travel through North Carolina in April, they will be available to visit classes as speakers on both UNC and Duke's campuses, as well as to give talks at the Fed Ex Global Education Center at UNC and the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke regarding art in the Arab Spring. We also hope to plan presentations at other public venues, such as libraries, to broaden the reach of the discussion into the communities. The Conference: An Art of the Arab Spring Conference, hosted by SECCA in Winston Salem and led by miriam cooke of Duke University with the support of the ART \ Islam project of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, is planned for April 18-‐20, 2013. Conference participants, including selected students from Duke, UNC, and UNCSA, will consider the role of art in the ongoing “Arab Spring” revolutions (and in our understanding of those revolutions) and thereby consider the role of the citizen artist. This two-‐to-‐three day workshop will incorporate films being shown at RiverRun International Film Festival and will include select artists from the US discussing the art and aesthetics of revolution alongside our Egyptian and Tunisian guest artists who will discuss their specific experiences and perspectives regarding art in the Arab Spring. Creative Encounter Part 2: During the conference, we hope that significant relationships develop among our Egyptian, Tunisian, and American guest artists, from which they are inspired to work together to craft the second portion of this Creative Encounter, a public art collaboration where they will work together in public view to produce pieces that make a joint statement highlighting our common humanity. Based on the ideas and energy that surface in the April 2013 meetings, and aided by SECCA, we hope to invite each of the guests artists back to NC in Fall 2013 for such a collaboration. We are eager to see what emerges from the artists’ interactions and hope to highlight the resulting art in a second round of workshops and guest lectures at UNCSA, UNC-‐Chapel Hill, and Duke University centered on the role of the citizen artist. The Exhibition/s and Ongoing Conversation: Though public art is traditionally ephemeral, we would like these pieces to be on display for a time. We hope to collaborate with SECCA, the Franklin Center, and the Ackland Art Museum to create an exhibition centered around the idea of public art, and the way it has influenced the revolutions in the Middle East. Students from UNCSA’s School of Filmmaking who participate in the filming of the public art event will be encouraged to produce a short film focused on the event, to be submitted to RiverRun International Film Festival in 2015. Faculty on each campus will be recruited to incorporate discussion of the artwork and the collaborative process into their classes through the Spring and Fall 2013 semesters and beyond. The painted walls, along with the film product/s, will serve as ongoing stimulators of conversation about the role of the citizen artist: on a university campus, in a state, in a nation, and within the international community. Programmatic Benefits This Creative Encounter project will help to integrate arts into the curriculum at Duke and UNC by (1) exposing students to working artists at the conference and in the production of public art; (2) providing artists as guest lecturers; and (3) providing an outlet for the artistic expression that can be viewed and appreciated by students, and in which students themselves can participate. In this way, students will be exposed both to the study of art as a means of public expression and will also be able to participate in such expression in collaboration with working artists.


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The current proposal is a logical extension and development of an important inter-‐university collaboration in Middle East studies at Duke and UNC. Project Organizers Madison Scott, UNC Student Proposer [email protected] | 252-‐864-‐8030 | CV attached Madison Scott is a junior at UNC, double majoring in Dramatic Art and Global Studies, with a focus in the Middle East. She is also pursuing a minor in Arabic, which she spent time studying this summer in Jordan. Additionally, she traveled through Turkey with ART\Islam seeking out connections with Muslim artists and studying Sufi tradition. She hopes to pursue a career collaborating with artists and creating theatre in the Middle East. For this Creative Encounter, Madison will aid in developing the specifics of the traveling arts project, including gathering materials, garnering student interest, locating and working with student artists, and helping lead the events themselves. She plans to participate in the conference and collaborate with UNC professors to select students to attend, as well as to provide support and collaboration for the continuing conversation of what it means to be a citizen artist. Yakein Abdelmagid, Duke Student Proposer [email protected] | 919-‐523-‐9018 | CV attached Yakein Abdelmagid is a second year graduate student in the Cultural Anthropology Department at Duke University. He received his training in Cultural Anthropology at the American University in Cairo where he worked on the interweavings of neoliberalism, insecurity, masculinity and immaterial labour in the life of Karate players in Egypt. Expanding on such interests, Yakein is trying to understand how performances, imagination and creativity become political. As part of his doctoral research, his current project explores street art movements in Egypt in the last ten years. He started his ethnographic studies of street-‐art just after the revolution of January 2011 and before moving to the US. In the summer of 2012, he pursued his ethnographic study in different cities and villages in Egypt through the ART \ Islam project. For this Creative Encounter, Yakein will help in establishing connections with Egyptian and Arab artists. He will be supporting the project by providing the feedback and expertise needed. miriam cooke, Duke Faculty Advisor & Carl Ernst, UNC Faculty Advisory [email protected] | [email protected] | CVs attached miriam cooke is the Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures at Duke University and director of Duke’s Middle East Studies Center. Carl Ernst is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies at UNC and co-‐director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations. Duke and UNC have a long-‐standing collaboration in Middle East studies, and the two faculty advisors for this project have worked together on a number of projects, including the 2004 publication Muslim Networks: from Hajj to Hip-‐Hop, edited by miriam cooke and Bruce Lawrence (including an article by Carl


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Ernst), and published by the University of North Carolina Press in the Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks series edited by Carl Ernst and Bruce Lawrence. The two Middle East centers at Duke and UNC together form a joint entity, the Duke-‐UNC Consortium for the Study of the Middle East. This consortium in 2010 was the recipient of a four-‐year Title VI grant from the US Department of Education, which funds faculty positions, administration, graduate fellowships, and programs at both universities. They have also created a joint Duke-‐UNC Graduate Certificate in Middle East Studies, and the core graduate seminar in Middle East studies was co-‐taught by miriam cooke and Carl Ernst in Fall 2011. Both cooke and Ernst have been on the advisory board of the ART \ Islam project at the UNC School of the Arts since August 2011. This Creative Encounter proposal is a logical extension and development of this important inter-‐university collaboration in Middle East studies. For this Creative Encounter, Dr. cooke will craft the Art of the Arab Spring conference agenda to include the visiting artists in the discussions, and Drs. Ernst and cooke will both be instrumental in selecting students to participate in the conference and in leading and recruiting other Duke and UNC faculty to take part in the "ongoing conversation" as described above. Visiting Artists Ammar Abo Bakr, El Seed, and Ganzeer know one another and enjoy working together in collaborative partnerships such as this. Aya Tarek, aka “The Queen,” is an Egyptian public artist who could help highlight the role of women artists in the revolution. They, along with Carlos Rodriguez, have already expressed their interest in joining us for this project. Carlos recommended that we also include Alice Mizrachi, who will bring another feminine voice to the conversation. Ammar Abo Bakr, Public Artist Abo Bakr is a leading street artist in Egypt and a teaching assistant at Luxor’s Faculty of Fine Arts. His drive to educate and communicate through art has taken his work from the atelier to the public space; his murals are as much about his own artistic expression as they are generating and contributing to a larger dialogue with the public. Abo Bakr’s works have cased walls in Cairo (sample below), Luxor, Alexandria, Beirut, Frankfurt, Berlin, Amsterdam and Brussels, journaling the Egyptian Revolution’s many turning points, as well as themes about Coptic and Islamic culture, folk art, Egyptology and Egyptian history. He became best known for his mural on Mohammed Mahmoud Street leading to Cairo’s Tahrir Square that honors the Revolution's martyrs, giving them brightly colored angel wings in a sign of respect as mourning mothers look on amid naïve art motifs. Since 2008, Abo Bakr has also worked as a supervisor in the Luxor International Studio, providing an opportunity for international artistic exchange. He has participated in individual and collective exhibits presenting Egypt’s rich cultural heritage – its Sufi festivals, temples, architecture and rich landscapes. http://www.flickr.com/photos/drumzo/sets/72157629182010760/detail/ El Seed, Public Artist El Seed is a Tunisian artist who perceives Arabic Calligraphy as a tangible expression of his search for identity. His art is a mixture of street art and Arabic Calligraphy. It is the product of a double marginality, that of an oriental art seeking a voice in the occidental world, and that of street art struggling to legitimize its presence on the contemporary art scene. This duality enables the reconciling of two supposedly opposing worlds and two supposedly clashing cultures. His work became highly significant after the Tunisian revolution of 2011. He is has recently moved to Montreal. http://vimeo.com/elseed http://www.elseed-‐art.com/


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Ganzeer, Public Artist Ganzeer is the pseudonym used by Mohamad Fahmy, an Egyptian artist who has gained notoriety in Egypt and internationally following the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Ganzeer's artwork has touched on the themes of civic responsibility and social justice, and has been critical of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which has ruled Egypt since the February 2011 resignation of former president Housni Mubarak. He was identified by Al-‐Monitor magazine as one of the 50 people changing the culture of the Middle East (link to article below). http://ganzeer.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ganzeer/ http://www.al-‐monitor.com/pulse/contents/articles/galleries/50-‐culture-‐creators-‐in-‐the-‐middle-‐east.html Aya Tarek, Egyptian Public Artist Aya, aka The Queen,” is seen by many as the first serious street artist in Egypt. Long before the revolution her work could be seen in her hometown Alexandria. Exceptionally talented, she is also one of the youngest artists in today’s Egyptian scene. She lives and works in Alexandria as a painter, street artist, and founder and creative director of Art Establishment Collective (ARTest.). http://www.khtt.net/person/7856 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI1sBiWaPhM Carlos Rodriguez, Public Artist Carlos Rodriguez, aka Mare 139, is a US State Department Cultural Ambassador for Graffiti Arts and 2012 Scholar in Residence at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture and Human Development. Based in New York, Carlos has partnered with artists from other cultures in collaborative works, and he currently has plans for a show and artist talk in Marrakech, Morocco in May 2013, where his sculptures will be informed by Islamic art and design principles. www.mare139.com http://agents-‐of-‐change.co.uk/ http://bambuser.com/v/2935880 https://vimeo.com/47618462 http://graffuturism.com/2012/06/08/preview-‐carlos-‐mare-‐139-‐physical-‐graffiti-‐art-‐of-‐the-‐b-‐boy-‐dance/ Alice Mizrachi, Public Artist Alice Mizrachi, co-‐founder of the YOUNITY Arts Collective, is a Queens based artist, curator, educator and community organizer. She has exhibited works in the Museum of Contemporary Art in DC, The National Women’s Museum in DC, and most recently in solo shows in Paris and Tel Aviv. With strong ties to the urban art world, she has painted murals worldwide and begun to delve into sculptural objects made from found materials. http://www.am-‐files.com/galleries http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=alice+mizrachi&oe=UTF-‐8&um=1&ie=UTF-‐8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=Pd1pULapJIj28gTaroHYDg&biw=1462&bih=871&sei=D95pUPWQFY668wTLw4HgBw

Madison McKenzie Scott 710 Edwards St., Chapel Hill, NC 27516

252-864-8030

[email protected]

OBJECTIVE

To experience and understand how communities can harness performance and the arts to bring about reform, reimagine relationships, and shift power structures- particularly in regions undergoing post-conflict transformation.

EDUCATION

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, USA Second Year Undergraduate (anticipated graduation: May 2014) BA in Dramatic Art and Global Studies (focus: Middle East)

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts Winston Salem, NC, USA

School of Drama, High School graduate (2010)

EMPLOYMENT AND INTERNSHIPS

• Currently a student intern with the ART\Islam project, supported by The Kenan Institute of the Arts

• Currently serving as a board member and Events Coordinator for LAB! Theatre at UNC-Chapel Hill

• The Rare Books Collection at Louis Round Wilson Library (2010-present)

o Archival assistant. Responsibilities include maintaining the workroom, preparing books for storage, and cataloguing new acquisitions.

• UNC- School of the Arts Summer Session (Summer 2010)

o Resident Counselor. Responsibilities included administrative duties, student supervision, and facilitating artistic and personal growth.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND HONORS

l Recipient of The Virgil and Marion Lee Award in the Department of Dramatic Art

l Recipient of a Department of Education FLAS award to study Arabic at the University of Jordan (Summer 2012)

l Traveled to Turkey with ART\Islam (supported by The Kenan Institute of the Arts) as a student research assistant (Summer 2012)

l Selected to attend Carolina South East Asia Summer, a fully funded study abroad to Singapore, Brunei, and India (Summer 2011).

l Published in campus travel magazine, Carolina Passport (Fall 2011).

l Recipient of the Joseph D. Feldman Scholarship in the Department of Dramatic Art

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

All coursework was completed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Semester Course ID Course Title Instructor

Spring 2012 DRAM 282

ARAB 102

DRAM 193

ANTH 525

Theatre History (1700-1920)

Elementary Arabic II

Production Practicum: Playmakers

Culture and Personality

G. Kable

C. Joukhadar

S. Smiley

R. Daniels, PhD

Fall 2011 RELI 181

DRAM 150

ARAB 101

INTS 210

Modern Islamic History

Beginning Acting for the Major

Elementary Arabic I

Global Issues

O. Safi, PhD

J. Fishell

N. Isleem

J. Weiler, PhD

Spring 2011 DRAM 120

RELI 180

Play Analysis

Introduction to Islamic Civilization

A. Versenyi, PhD

C. Ernst, PhD

Fall 2010 DRAM 85 Documentary Theatre A. Lucas

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Theatrical

The Rimers of Eldritch Evelyn The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Metamorphoses Alcyone, Pomona, A The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Playing for Time Frau Schmidt The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mary's Wedding Mary The University of North Carolina School of the Arts

The Little Prince The Aviator The University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Haroun and the Sea of Stories Ensemble The University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Other Activities

• Amnesty International (2011-present)

• The Roosevelt Institute: Arts and Cultural Policy Center (2010-2011)

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Yakein Abdelmagid

205 Friedl Building, Box 90091 – Durham, NC 27708, USA -Tel.: +19195239018, +20105131354 [email protected]

EDUCATION DUKE UNIVERSITY Durham, North Carolina, USA PhD Student in Cultural Anthropology program; GPA: 3.9 August 2011 – Present - Areas of Interest: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Art Movements, Immaterial Labor, Anthropology of Work/Leisure, Sexuality and Masculinity, Anthropology of popular culture and Media, Anthropology of space, Ordinary Language Philosophy, Egypt. AUC (American University in Cairo) Cairo, Egypt M.A. in Anthropology; GPA: 3.9 - Thesis: Masculinity, Insecurities and Leisure: An Ethnography of Karate Practitioners in Egypt. - Honors: University Fellow 2008-2010, T.A. for semesters Fall 08, Spring 08 and Fall 09, Spring 09, Spring 10, Fall 10. Dean’s List for 2008-2009. - Leadership: Secretary of the Visual Ethnography Project (Graduate Student Club) at AUC. CAIRO UNIVERSITY Cairo, Egypt B.S., Computer Engineering June 2004 - Undergraduate GPA: 2.75 Graduation Project Grade: A - Leadership: Vice-President of the IEEE Computer Engineering Chapter 2002-2003. EXPERIENCE AND PROJECTS RESEARCH PROJECT: STREET-ART AND POLITICS OF CREATIVITY IN EGYPT Cairo, Egypt Principal Researcher May 2012-August 2012 Conducted three-month ethnographic in Egypt exploring the social world and everyday life of street-artists and the formation of emerging rhizomatic street-art movements in Egypt. DUKE UNIVERSITY – CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT North Carolina, USA Research Assistant August 2011 – April 2012 - Gathering research material including an analysis of the media coverage of Arab Springs of 2011. - Transcribing interviews. Teaching Assistant August 2012 – Present THE DANISH EGYPTIAN DIALOGUE INSTITUTE Cairo, Egypt Program Assistant January 2010 – April 2011 - Developing and monitoring development and dialogue projects in Egypt and Denmark. - Facilitate partnership initiatives between Egyptian and Danish NGOs and activists. - Writing annual and monthly reports reviewing implemented projects and initiatives. - Preparing and administrating seminars and workshops. CAIRO PAPERS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE Cairo, Egypt Editor’s Assistant January 2009 – February 2010 -Promoting and marketing Cairo Papers (an academic monograph series published by AUC) to the academic community, publishers and distributors worldwide. - Preparing Cairo Papers annual symposium. - Establishing and updating the online website of the series. - Writing abstracts for Cairo Papers issues. RESEARCH PROJECT: GENDER ISSUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST Cairo, Egypt Research Assistant August 2009-Septermber 2009 Performed secondary research on literature on gender issue in the Middle East under the supervision of Dr. Soraya Altorki at AUC.


RESEARCH PROJECT: INVESTIGATING THE RELATION BETWEEN FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AND SEXUAL PLEASURE Cairo, Egypt Research Assistant November 2008-February 2009 Performed ethnographic research and data analysis for a research project funded by WHO (World Health Organization) – Geneva. RESEARCH PROJECT: AUC MOVE TO NEW CAIRO CAMPUS Cairo, Egypt Research Assistant August 2008 -January 2009 Conducted an ethnographic research on the affect of AUC move to New Cairo Campus on AUC workers, as part of Old-New Campus Research Group. CAPSTONE COURSE FOR AUC WORKERS AND STUDENTS Cairo, Egypt Research Assistant September 2008-January 2009 Assisted in preparing the syllabus and the program of a community service course offered at AUC: Fostering Community Bonds and Liberal Education in a Corporate World: Challenges for the American University in Cairo. The preparation of the course included ethnographic research and communal activities to understand the workers’ and students’ needs. EFORMATIONS Cairo-Egypt Software Developer March 2005-July 2008 - Developing Linux and Apple applications. QUICKTEL Cairo-Egypt Software Developer August 2004 – February 2005 - Developing C/C++ applications for Class5-Telephone Switch. WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES EUME Berlin - Aesthesis and Politics in the Arab World Summer Academy Cairo-Egypt – September 2012 An international Summer Academy that took place in Cairo for two weeks on the theme Aesthetics and Politics: Counter-Narratives, New Publics, and the Role of Dissent in the Arab World. Twenty-four doctoral and postdoctoral scholars were invited from different countries and academic disciplines. Duke University -Arab Springs Conference North Carolina, USA-February 2012 Presenting paper: Politics of Creativity: Graffiti and the Rhizomes of Resistance. AUC Before Community Conference Cairo, Egypt -February 2009 Presenting paper: Moving to the New Campus and the impact on AUC marginalized workers (co-authored with Joanne Wallaby) AAA Annual Meeting New Orleans, USA -November 2010 Presenting paper: Between Quotations: the state crackdown on homosexual men in Egypt. GRANTS The ART \ Islam Project of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at the UNC School of the Arts – Summer Research Grant April 2012 Three-month summer research-grant to conduct an ethnographic research on graffiti and street-art in Egypt Duke University Middle East Studies Center – Summer Research Grant May 2012 Three-month summer research-grant to conduct an ethnographic research on graffiti and street-art in Egypt AUC Conference Grant November 2010 Conference Grant to attend AAA Annual meeting in New Orleans. ADDITIONAL -Fluent in Arabic, beginner knowledge of Turkish; currently enrolled in Turkish classes. -Activist in and one of the founders of the Monaliza Brigades, an independent street-art movement in Egypt. -Computer Skills: Development under C/C++ and Java, advanced user of Nivio9 (Qualitative data analysis software). -Director and founder of ROSIE (Research Of Social Informatics In Egypt) July 2005-January 2007


-Volunteered in Befrienders Cairo for two years August 2004 -August 2006 -Member of the IEEE-SSIT (Society of Social Implications of Technology) -Active member of The South Group for Culture and Development August 2004 – March 2007 -Member of Cairo Choir Project May 2011 -Member of the Association of Progressive Youth of the Revolution February 2011 -Member of the AAA’s Society of the Anthropology of Work April 2012 Film Interests - Attended one year training for Independent Filmmaking at Jesuit-Cairo cultural center. June 2006-June 2007 Worked as researcher for two short documentary films. June 2007 - Co-directed/produced “Betwixt and Between: Discourses on the Egyptian Lover”, an ethnographic film on cross-cultural marriages/relations in Egypt. December 2009 REFERENCES - Rebecca L. Stein -Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Women's Studies – Duke University [email protected] - Anne Allison -Robert O. Keohane Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Professor of Women's Studies -Duke University [email protected] - miriam cooke – Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies and Director of Duke’s University Middle East Studies Center [email protected] Last Updated: April 2012

miriam cooke

miriam cooke is Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures at Duke University and

Director of the Duke University Middle East Studies Center. She has been a visiting professor in Tunisia, Romania, Indonesia, Qatar, Dartmouth College and she is currently teaching at the Alliance of Civilizations Institute of the Fatih Sultan Mehmet University in Istanbul. She serves on several international advisory boards, including academic journals and institutions.

Since coming to Duke University she has taught Arabic language and a wide variety of courses on Arabic literature, war and gender, the Palestine-Israel conflict, postcolonial theory. She has directed several study abroad courses in Morocco, Tunisia, Cairo and Istanbul.

Her writings have focused on the intersection of gender and war in modern Arabic

literature and on Arab women writers’ constructions of Islamic feminism. Her more recent interests have turned to Arab cultural studies with a concentration on Syria, and to the networked connections among Arabs and Muslims around the world. She is the author of several monographs that include The Anatomy of an Egyptian Intellectual: Yahya Haqqi (1984); War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War (1988); Women and the War Story (1997); Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature (2001); Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official (2007) and Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism (2010). She has co-edited several volumes, including Opening the Gates. A Century of Arab Feminist Writing (1990/ 2005 with Margot Badran); Gendering War Talk (1993 with Angela Woollacott); Blood into Ink: 20th Century South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War (1994 with Roshni Rustomji); Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop (2005 with Bruce Lawrence); Mediterranean Passages: from Dido to Derrida (2008 with Erdag Goknar and Grant Parker). She has also published a novel, Hayati, My Life (2000). Three of her books (Women Claim Islam; Women and the War Story and The Anatomy of an Egyptian Intellectual: Yahya Haqqi) were named Choice Outstanding Academic Books. Several books and articles have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch and German.

Carl W. Ernst 1906 Clearwater Lake Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27517

919-929-4594 (home); 919-962-1425 (office); 919-929-8289 (fax) [email protected]; http://www.unc.edu/~cernst

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill § William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor (2005- ) § Co-Director, Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations (2003-) § Zachary Smith Distinguished Term Professor (2000-2005) § Professor (1992-2000); Chair (1995-2000)

Department of Religion, Pomona College, Claremont, California § Chair (1991-1992); Associate Professor (1987-92), Assistant Professor (1981-87)

Visiting positions § University of Malaya, Centre for Civilisational Dialogue (Jan.-May 2005; Sept.-Oct., 2010) § École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (May, 2003; May-June 1991) § University of Seville, Area of Arabic Studies (September-December, 2001)

EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ph.D., June, 1981: The Study of Religion Stanford University, Stanford, California: A.B. Hons., April, 1973: Humanities / Religious Studies.

HONORS AND GRANTS

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Research Fellowship, 2010. UNC Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Fellowship, spring 2010. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected Fellow 2009. Farabi International Award in Humanities and Islamic Studies (Tehran, 2008), for Ruzbihan Baqli: Mysticism and

the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism. Scholar in Residence, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Honolulu, Hawaii, June-July 2008. Awards for Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (UNC Press, 2003)

§ Iranian Research Institute in Philosophy (Tehran) and Shiraz University (Shiraz, 2007) § Cenan Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching of Sufism (Istanbul, 2005) § Turkish Economics and Social Research Foundation Award (Istanbul, 2005) § Turkish Women’s Cultural Association, Award for Excellence in Education (Istanbul, 2005) § Bashrahil Prize for Outstanding Cultural Achievement (Cairo, 2004)

Fulbright Fellowships (Malaysia, spring 2005; Spain, fall 2001; Pakistan, 1986; India, 1978-9) International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), Travel Grant, Uzbekistan, March 2003 W. H. Reynolds Research Leave, University of North Carolina, fall 2001 Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina, Fellow, spring 2001 UNC Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Summer Research Grant, summer 2000 American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Research Grant, summer 2000. American Society for the Study of Religion, elected 1996. National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Grant, 1993. American Research Institute in Turkey, Travel Grant, Summer 1990. NEH Translation Grant (Arabic), for “The Pool of the Water of Life: An Islamic Interpretation of Yoga,” 1989-90. American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Research Fellowship, June-December 1981. Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships, 1976-78, 1979-80 (Persian). Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Merit Award, 1979.

PUBLICATIONS Books

How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide with Select Translations. University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

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Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Translations: Turkish, Korean, French, Persian, Arabic, and German.

Sufi Martyrs of Love: Chishti Sufism in South Asia and Beyond (co-author Bruce Lawrence). Palgrave Press, 2002. Teachings of Sufism. Shambhala, 1999, an anthology of translations from Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. Guide to Sufism. Shambhala, 1997. Translations: Russian, Persian, Greek, Italian, Spanish. Ruzbihan Baqli. The Unveiling of Secrets: Diary of a Sufi Master. Translated from the Arabic by Carl W. Ernst.

Parvardigar Press, 1997. Ruzbihan Baqli: Mysticism and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism. Curzon Press, 1996. Translated into

Persian twice. Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center. State University of New York Press,

1992. 2nd edition, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. Words of Ecstasy in Sufism. SUNY Series in Islam. State University of New York Press, 1985.

Edited volumes

Editor, Islamophobia in America: The Anatomy of Intolerance. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013 (in press). Co-Editor (with Richard C. Martin), Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Post-Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism.

University of South Carolina Press, 2010; co-author of “Introduction: Toward a Post-Orientalist Islamic Approach to Islamic Religious Studies” (pp. 1-22) and author of “The Perils of Civilizational Islam in Malaysia” (pp. 266-80).

Associate editor (with Grace Martin Smith), Manifestations of Sainthood in Islam. The Isis Press, 1993; also principal author of “Introduction” (pp. xi-xxviii), and author of article “An Indo-Persian Guide to Sufi Shrine Pilgrimage” (pp. 43-67).

Selected articles in journals and collective volumes

Translations from the writings of Jalal al-Din Dawani: Commentary on Suhrawardi's "Temples of Light" (Sharḥ hay�kil al-n�r, Book 5; Arabic), and Flashes of Illumination on Praiseworthy Ethics, or the Jalalian Ethics (Akhl�q-i Jal�l�, Book 4; Persian), in An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, ed. S. H. Nasr and Mehdi Aminrazavi, vol. 4, From the School of Illumination to Philosophical Mysticism (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012), pp. 93-120, 121-135.

"It's Not Just Academic – Writing Public Scholarship in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies." Review of Middle East Studies 45/2 (Winter 2011 [published 2012]), pp. 164-71.

“A Fourteenth-Century Persian Account of Breath Control and Meditation.” In Yoga in Practice, ed. David Gordon White, Princeton Readings in Religions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011), pp. 133-39.

“The Limits of Universalism in Islamic Thought: The Case of Indian Religions.” Muslim World 101 (January 2011), pp. 1-19.

“‘The West and Islam?’ Rethinking Orientalism and Occidentalism.” Ishraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook 1 (Moscow/Tehran, 2010), pp. 23-34.

“Fayzi's Illuminationist Interpretation of Vedanta: The Shariq al-Ma`rifa.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 30/3 (2010), pp. 156-64.

“Muhammad as the Pole of Existence.” In The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad, ed. Jonathan Brockopp (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 123-38.

“Davani's Interpretation of Hafiz.” In Hafiz and the School of Love in Persian Poetry, ed. Leonard Lewisohn (London: I. B. Tauris, 2010), pp. 197-210.

“Islam and Sufism in Contemporary South Asia.” In Sacred Spaces: A Journey with the Sufis of the Indus, by Samina Quraeshi (Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, 2009), pp. 21-40.

“Sufism and the Art of Penmanship according to Siraj al-Shirazi's Tuhfat al-Muhibbin (1454).” Journal of the American Oriental Society 129.3 (2009), pp. 431-42.

“Reconfiguring South Asian Islam: The 18th and 19th centuries.” Journal of Comparative Islamic Studies 5/2 (2009), pp. 247-272.


“Accounts of Yogis in Arabic and Persian Historical and Travel Texts.” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 33 (2008), pp. 409-426.

“Being Careful with the Goddess: Yoginis in Persian and Arabic Texts.” In Performing Ecstasy: The Poetics and Politics of Religion in India, ed. Pallabi Chakrabarty and Scott Kugle. Manohar, 2009.

“Reading Strategies for Introducing the Qur'an as Literature in an American Public University.” Islamic Studies (Islamabad) 45:3 (2006), pp. 333-344; reprinted as Occasional Paper No. 77, Islamic Research Institute (Islamabad, 2007).

“On Losing One's Head: Hallajian themes in works attributed to Àttar.” In Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition: The Art of Spiritual Flight, ed. Leonard Lewisohn and Christopher Shackle (I. B. Tauris, 2006), pp. 330-343.

“Two Versions of a Persian Text on Yoga and Cosmology, Attributed to Shaykh Muìn al-Din Chishti.” Elixir 2 (2006), pp. 69-76, 124-5.

“Fragmentary Versions of the Apocryphal ‘Hymn of the Pearl’ in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Urdu.” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 32 (2006), pp. 144-188.

“Situating Sufism and Yoga.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 15:1 (2005), pp. 15-43. “Ideological and Technological Transformations of Contemporary Sufism.” In Muslim Networks: Medium,

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“Khuldabad: Dargahs of Shaykh Burhanuddin Gharib and Shaykh Zaynuddin Shirazi.” In Dargahs: Abodes of the Saints, ed. Mumtaz Currim and George Michell, special issue of Marg 56/1 (2004), pp. 104-19.

“The Islamization of Yoga in the Amrtakunda Translations.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 13:2 (2003), pp. 199-226.

“Muslim Studies of Hinduism? A Reconsideration of Persian and Arabic Translations from Sanskrit.” Iranian Studies 36 (2003), pp. 173-95.

“Between Orientalism and Fundamentalism: Problematizing the Teaching of Sufism.” In Teaching Islam, ed. Brannon Wheeler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 108-23.

“Sufism and Philosophy in Mulla Sadra.” In Islam-West Philosophical Dialogue: The Papers presented at the World Congress on Mulla Sadra (May, 1999, Tehran) (Tehran: Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute, 2001), 1:173-192.

“Abu Nasr Muhammad Khalidi (d. 1406/1985): A Brief Memoir.” The Annual of Urdu Studies 15 (2000), pp. 305-13.

“Admiring the Works of the Ancients: The Ellora Temples as viewed by Indo-Muslim Authors.” In Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia, ed. David Gilmartin and Bruce B. Lawrence (Gainseville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2000), pp. 198-220.

“Persecution and Circumspection in the Shattari Sufi Order.” In Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies & Polemics, ed. Fred De Jong and Berndt Radtke, Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts, 29 (Leiden: Brill, 1999), pp. 416-35.

“Vertical Pilgrimage and Interior Landscape in the Visionary Diary of Ruzbihan Baqli.” Muslim World 88/2 (1998), pp. 129-40.

“Sufism and Yoga according to Muhammad Ghawth.” Sufi 29 (Spring 1996), pp. 9-13. Translations for Religions of India in Practice, ed. Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Princeton Readings in Religions, 1

(Princeton University Press, 1995): “Lives of Sufi Saints” (Persian; pp. 495-512), “Conversations of Sufi Saints” (Persian; pp. 513-17), and “India as a Sacred Islamic Land” (Arabic; pp. 556-64).

“The Interpretation of the Classical Sufi Tradition in India: The Shama'il al-atqiya' of Rukn al-Din Kashani.” Sufi 22 (1994), pp. 5-10.

“Ruzbihan Baqli on Love as ‘Essential Desire.’” In Gott is schön und Er liebt die Schönheit/God is Beautiful and He Loves Beauty: Festschrift für Annemarie Schimmel, ed. Alma Giese and J. Christoph Bürgel (Bern: Peter Lang, 1994), pp. 181-89.

“The Man without Attributes: Ibn Àrabi's Interpretation of Abu Yazid al-Bistami.” Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn Àrabi Society XIII (1993), pp. 1-18.


“Mystical Language and the Teaching Context in the Early Sufi Lexicons.” In Mysticism and Language, ed. Steven T. Katz (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 181-201.

“The Stages of Love in Persian Sufism, from Rabià to Ruzbihan.” In The Heritage of Sufism, Volume 1, Classical Persian Sufism from its Origins to Rumi (700-1300), ed. Leonard Lewisohn (One World, 1999), pp. 435-55.

“The Spirit of Islamic Calligraphy: Baba Shah Isfahani's Adab al-Mashq.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 112 (1992), pp. 279-86.

“The Symbolism of Birds and Flight in the Writings of Ruzbihan Baqli.” In The Heritage of Sufism, Volume 2, ed. Leonard Lewisohn (Oxford: One World, 1999), pp. 353-66.

“Controversy over Ibn Àrabi's Fusus: The Faith of Pharaoh.” Islamic Culture LIX (1985), pp. 259-66. “From Hagiography to Martyrology: Conflicting Testimonies to a Sufi Martyr of the Delhi Sultanate.”

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