Summary Of Eat By Julia Clancy Smith

Children of the New World: Acting out “The role of Algerian women in their own society has rarely been what it has seemed” (Heggoy 1). Prior to the Algerian war, women in Algerian society were under patriarchal rule and, under such rule, were expected to meet certain expectations. Among other rules and regulations, Algerian women were prohibited from being outside their home unaccompanied and were required to keep themselves heavily “veiled” at all times. They were not to question the authority of the Algerian men, especially the ones in their family. Despite these limitations, Algerian women found a place in the revolution. Although it sometimes meant defying their status quo as women in Algerian society, women used the resources and

The source of the earlier European colonist anxiety about their diet comes from their limited understanding of genetics, diets, and overall human health of the time. In Rebecca Earle’s work “The You Eat Their Food…”: Diets and Bodies in Early Colonial Spanish America, the historian presents the ideals of the early European Settlers, mainly Spanish, on how food effected the human body and form. The work elaborates on the Spanish logic for the aliments of both the settlers and the indigenous people of the land, linking it to food. Food in the New World played a prominent role in race and health – based upon Eurocentrism.

The self negotiation and internal struggle of the film’s character Malik Djebena is crucial in the course of sociological theoretical angle of symbolic interaction. Throughout the film, Malik’s personality revealed the bigger ongoing negotiations of Arab Muslim culture and identity within the French society. The largest Muslim Arab community in all of Western Europe resides in the heart of France, constituting five to six million people. Around 65% of this community traces its roots to French colonized countries of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco and other parts of North Africa. Malik was coined the nickname “The Arab” and “haloof” (which means pig in Arabic) by other inmates which causes high probability that Malik is in fact to be of North African descent. Therefore, the symbolism of Malik’s muddled persona is more or less clear: in the same way that Malik has to come face to face with his own Muslim identity as he faces the iron fist of French prison, ethnic discrimination from the Corsicans, and the resentment and disapproval from his Muslim brothers. Many Muslim Arabs in France today have come to terms with their own identity issues as they face the pretentiously tolerant but merely assimilative French state, the increasing xenophobia

The Arab world seemed to have been poised for an era of political and cultural renewal. The 2011 uprisings that toppled long-reigning dictators inspired hope to those within the region and the rest of the world that change may finally come to the Middle East. Like many eager journalists and intellectuals during the Arab Spring, Juan Cole, a history professor at the University of Michigan and a popular political blogger, had high hopes. “A new generation has been awakened,” Cole writes in his latest book, “The New Arabs,” which chronicles the positive new historical dynamic is taking hold in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. In 2011, Westerners expected the Arab world to “spring” into democracy. But like most at the time, Juan Cole was wrong.

The poem “The Joy of Cooking” by Elaine Magarrell is intriguing in the worst possible way. Elaine Magarrell was born in the city of Clinton, Iowa on June 2nd, 1928 and died on July 24, 2014. During her early days, starting from the age of ten years old, she wrote a huge amount of poetry, but she decided to get rid of the poems by burning every last one of them. Eventually, Elaine started writing her poems again at the age of forty and then in 1981 she decided to quit her job to write full-time. She wrote numerous pieces including the poem I chose called “The Joy of Cooking”. “The Joy of Cooking” is an intense read that allows an abundance of room for interpretation. It starts off describing how she has prepared her sister’s tongue and then keeps getting worse and worse from there. Furthermore, she tells of having her brother’s heart and intensely talks about the firmness, dryness, and how to make it taste better in the sauces. The whole poem disgusts me immensely to think about it literally, which is why I

According to Amin Maalouf, “It seems clear that the Arab East still sees the West as a natural enemy. Against that enemy, any hostile action-be it political, military, or based on oil-is considered no more than legitimate vengeance. And there can be no doubt that the schism between these two worlds dates from the Crusades, deeply felt by the Arabs, even today, as an act of rape” (Amin Maalouf). When reflecting on The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, this quote always sticks out as the most powerful piece of Maalouf’s work. As a growing college student this quote brings harsh reality to the world I live in. I believe as you grow through life, you become more and more aware of the world around you through education. In order to

According to Amin Maalouf, “It seems clear that the Arab East still sees the West as a natural enemy. Against that enemy, any hostile action-be it political, military, or based on oil-is considered no more than legitimate vengeance. And there can be no doubt that the schism between these two worlds dates from the Crusades, deeply felt by the Arabs, even today, as an act of rape” (Amin Maalouf). When reflecting on The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, this quote always sticks out as the most powerful piece of Maalouf’s work. As a growing college student this quote brings harsh reality to the world I live in. I believe as you grow through life, you become more and more aware of the world around you through education. In order to be aware you must

been translated into more than twenty different languages and published in twenty five countries. Her works are included in almost all the literary categories such as fiction, non-fiction, children literature and poetry. She represents the contemporary Canadian fiction in the whole world. She won a number of national and international awards for her works and is also included in Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2001. She has been shortlisted five times for the prestigious Booker Prize and finally won it for her novel The Blind Assassin in 2001. She founded a nonprofit literary organization which encouraged Canada’s writing community. Margaret Atwood is often thought as a feminist writer as she in her most of the works highlights the issues faced by

1. The country of Tunisia sits atop the northernmost point in Africa, surrounded by Algeria to the west, Libya to the east, and the Mediterranean Sea and Europe to the north. It has occupied this territory since its foundation under the Ottoman empire.1 Since then its rulership has transitioned from regime to regime; each with a history of civil war and corruption.2 The most recent of these ended in revolution in 2011, when Tunisia overthrew its dictator, and established a new constitution and elected government.3 Today it is the only democracy in the Arab world.4 This outcome was internationally championed as a success story, evident by the 2015 Nobel peace prize awarded to the union leaders, lawyers, and human rights activists who facilitated the dialogue between politicians and the workforce for the construction of a new democratic system.5 However, the same economic problems of the previous regime still remain and threaten the political stability that many of Tunisia’s allies, including the United States of America (U.S.), hope to see.6 This paper explores Tunisia through the cultural domains of Politics and Social Relations, Economy and Resources, and finally the country’s relation to U.S. interests.

In the short excerpt from “Appetite,” Laurie Lee describes the importance of the process of fasting. She claims that the problem in the world today is that people are satisfied with their daily pleasures for too long. By vividly describing the typical situation of a family who lived before the age of technology, and an example of a person working in modern age, she shows how the value of things are forgotten. Fasting is essential to bringing back the appreciation for the simple and complex things in daily life as well as improving the quality of life.

There are four hundred thousand Arabs in Algeria; are they all enemies? We know they are not. But a small minority hold sway by means of terror and violence (Pontecorvo, 1966).

Inherited stereotypes of Muslims are dominant; Muslims are treated as savages, and the citizens of Qu’nesh are shown to be backward, illiterate, and ignorant of worldly matters. This representation serves a larger political agenda. Towards the end of the twentieth century, there was a widely shared view that Muslim countries were meant to remain under western tutelage, as much because they were profitable as because they were underdeveloped and in need of Western discipline. Be that as it may, and despite the frequent racism and aggression directed at the Muslim world, Europeans did express a fairly energetic sense of what Islam meant to them. Hence the misrepresentations of Islam – in scholarship, art, literature, music, and public discourse-

Sufi Mysticism has always been criticized by Muslim scholars mainly because they share many things in common with mystics of other religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism among others. Although its origins are not completely from Islam nor does it agree with all of Islam’s doctrines, Sufism has still been widely accepted by the Muslim community (Smith, 2005). The depth of the Sufis beliefs and principles begs to question the different theologies that shaped the formation of this fascinating religion and how it went on to influence the Islamic world and its cultural/artistic derivatives.

Unlike Meursault, Harun, the Arabs brother who was killed by Meursault, describes the suffering that the Arabs underwent due to othering. The social identity given to Algeria during the Mid-1940’s was that they were a third world culture that needed the “cleansing” and “support” of the French in order to develop into a stronger more diligent country. Although this was not at all the case, the French began socially categorizing Algerians to be lesser than the French. Even to this day, their are parts of Algeria that suffer from French colonization in where the second language, after Arabic, is French. Daoud, explains further and in depth the effects of French colonization when describing the struggle that Harun and his family went through financially and the suffering of his religious beliefs. The French colonization left Harun and his family in poverty and stripped him away from his religion. “I alone pay the electric bill, I alone will be eaten by worms in the end. So get lost! And therefore I detest religions and submission. Who wants to run panting after a father who has never set foot on earth, has never had to know hunger or work for a living?” (Daoud 66) This quote explains how Harun feels as though their lacks a greater power because he feels that the weight of the world is on his shoulder and he is alone in tackling his

In his conclusion, Fanon proclaims that “If we want to respond to the expectations of our peoples, we must look elsewhere besides Europe ...we must make a new start, develop a new way of thinking, and endeavor to create a new man” (239). We must ask ourselves, then, what is the European man well known for? According to the young Algerian boy “he kills Arabs.” For Fanon, any colonized person can insert his nationality into this young man’s words and they remain true. What Fanon advocates for, then, is not violence but something else, “a new way of thinking”, and whatever it may be, it cannot be violence