Middle East Studies in an Age of Post-Colonial Hegemony
The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) will hold its next conference, as usual at the Keystone Marriot just over the river from Georgetown DC, this coming year on November 13-15. Hopefully it will be live.
ASMEA was created in 2007 as a counter to MESA’s (Middle East Studies Association) increasing politicization . To ASMEA’s chagrin, MESA’s politicized scholarship has dominated the area-studies to this day (certainly as measured in control of research resources and access to the public), as well as fed the culture wars on campus and beyond in the form of “Apartheid Weeks” and BDS. As such, the anti-Orientalism of post-colonial studies has played an important role in the 21st century response of Western thought leaders to the challenges from the regions involved, not least, to Global Jihad.
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U.S. Special Envoy for the Sahel Region highlights Ghana’s Regional Democratic and Security Leadership LISTEN
JAN 11, 2021
Ambassador Pham (5th from left), Ambassador Sullivan (4th from left) with Chief of Defense Staff Lt. Gen. Obed Boamah Akwa (3rd from right) and Burma Camp and U.S. Embassy staff.
Accra, GHANA U.S. Special Envoy for the Sahel Region Ambassador J. Peter Pham traveled to Accra, Ghana from January 6 – 8, 2021 to lead the U.S. Presidential Delegation to the inauguration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on January 7. The delegation also included U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Stephanie S. Sullivan.
U.S. Special Envoy for the Sahel Region Ambassador Pham’s trip to Accra signals the United States’ strong partnership with the government and people of Ghana to advance shared prosperity in both countries. “The United States values Ghana’s democratic, security and economic leadership in the region and throughout Africa,” notes Ambassador Pham.
How Igbo women used petitions to influence British authorities during colonial rule
By Bright Alozie Listen to article
Selected petitions and written correspondence between Igbo women and British officials between 1892 and 1960 shed fresh light on how women navigated male-dominated colonial institutions and structures of the time.
African women acted in varied and complex ways to the situations they found themselves in. This ranged from subtle to overt opposition, and sometimes violent resistance.
One response was through petition writing as women took to the pen to articulate their concerns. In my research , I examined several petitions written by Igbo women to British officials during the colonial period. I found that petition writing was part of the complex power politics between the women and the colonial state.