Ibtisam M. Abujad- PhD
- Assistant Professor at William Rainey Harper College
Ibtisam M. Abujad
- PhD
- Assistant Professor at William Rainey Harper College
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Ibtisam M. Abujad is a Muslim and Palestinian academic and poet. She conducts research in the fields of settler colonial and decolonial studies, critical race and ethnic studies, women’s studies, American Studies and the global politics and economics of empire, and Critical Muslim Studies.
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This poem speaks from the global north at the border between the university and the public space. In it, I begin with an awareness of being able to speak back to institutional coloniality as a Muslim woman because of the power afforded me in my relationship to the university, something that reminds me of the “emerging dominant” of Spivak. It examin...
In her futuristic political art, Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour predicted that Israel, beyond its settler-colonial violence in Gaza and in Palestine, aspires to become global empire. In my presentation, I discuss how these global aspirations are imagined in Plan 2035, an AI-generated image of post-destruction Gaza that was developed by unnamed...
I discuss the relationship between the spectacular masculinist sexual violence by the Israeli military against Palestinian Muslim men and the invisiblized domesticating sexual violence of Palestinian Muslim women to uncover how both are ways to destabilize Palestinian social structures, diminish public resistance to its genocidal carcerality, and p...
"Read a Poem for Gaza" discusses the censorship and silencing of calls for decolonial justice by Palestinian academics and writers at institutions and in public forums following October 7th, 2023. It considers the liberatory impact (and limitations) of poetic and epistemic forms of resistance for displaced Palestinians in the global north who were...
This article analyzes resistance of Muslim Uyghurs to the genocide perpetrated against them by the Chinese government under the global war on terror. We use historical, political, and cultural analysis of journalism, personal narrative, poetry, film, and traditional music to argue that Uyghurs use cultivation-bearing witness, zikr and remembrance,...
"Read a Poem for Gaza" discusses the censorship and silencing of calls for decolonial justice by Palestinian academics and writers at institutions and in public forums following October 7th, 2023. It considers the liberatory impact (and limitations) of poetic and epistemic forms of resistance for displaced Palestinians in the global north who were...
ENGLISH) My dissertation theorizes Muslim Cultural Resistance as a decolonial method of critique and practice, rooted in Muslim ways of knowing, concepts, and epistemes as critical theory. My dissertation is interdisciplinary, braiding decolonial theory and theories on settler-colonialism with theories of race, feminist theory, and economic and pol...
This is an introduction to the 2023 general issue of Decolonial Subversions in which authors engage in a dialogue about colonial racial capitalism from different locations and by looking through different critical lenses. Instead of the working backwards of Eurocentric research and cultural consumption/production, with its assumption of a universal...
I discuss how the collective punishment of the Palestinians is colonial and racial by calling attention to the mechanisms of domination that enact violences in Palestine. I do this by discussing how these mechanisms are justified using narratives about Palestinians that act as colonial logics, or what scholars discuss as “settler colonial common se...
My paper will examine contemporary lyrical poetry/hiphop by Muslim women artists and its challenges to colonial logics of power. I explore the works of Naleem Hakeem and Mona Haydar to show how women musicians define Muslimness as a gendered resistance to patriarchal logics of domination, all the while undoing colonial legacies of power that operat...
Recommended Citation: Ibtisam M. Abujad, “Random Screening,” Flare: The Flagler Review, Spring 2022.
Recommended Citation: Ibtisam M. Abujad, “Stones Bear Witness,” Rigorous, Volume 3, Issue 3, 2019. https://www.rigorous-mag.com/v3i3/ibtisam-abujad.html
For my research, poverty is systemic. It is directly impacted by the inequitable distribution of wealth, policies that perpetuate economic vulnerability and enable exploitation of the most vulnerable in societies and a cultural justification of this exploitation. This exploitation and denial occur through global and local policies that are racial i...
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This paper examines the feminist theorizations of the cultural institution of motherhood, and the way in which power manifests itself in the interactions between the individual and the social in the short fiction of the Dalit author Bama. This essay discusses how the work of Bama Faustina constitutes a social critique and framework, centering the c...
The exploitation of the hijab in fetish images and pornographic films invites the consumer to explore their colonial fantasies and to ponder the raced conceptions of Muslim women and men. The fetishization of the hijab, niqab, and burqa signals this racialization; this new racism depends not only on epidermalization, but on ethnicity, geography, an...
Hyphenated identities continue to be prominent in twenty-first century scholarship meant to uncover and confront assimilative structures of power in the Global North. However, the “Arab-Muslim” hyphen, in particular, continues to be used as a convention without a proper examination of its assimilative and racial dimensions. This commentary confront...
This is a work of autoethnographic poetry, published in The Nasiona, that does memory work in examination of the collective generational traumas of settler-colonial displacement for Palestinian families. In telling a personal story of loss, it examines the act of storytelling for many families who find refuge in the work of remembering together out...
“Needlepoint Gazelles.” Cream City Review 42, no. 2 (Spring 2018).
