Women’s Spaces: Inside Looking Out vs. Outside Looking In
Cabaret. That was the word I overheard two young men use amongst themselves as I walked past them exiting what is a women’s-only dance studio that offered women’s-only belly dancing lessons. It was located on the ground floor, on a small street in a busy Alexandria neighborhood, with the windows completely opaque with vinyl advertising.…
Passerby
(December 2016) I like to think that I’m invisible sometimes. It usually happens as I walk down a street, or look up from my work or lunch at the library, or wait for the bus at the bus stop. I become like a video camera shooting a movie; you can’t see the camera but it…
Alone together, or Online together?
On Easter Sunday 2020, Andrea Bocelli sang solo at the Duomo cathedral of Milan. I got the invitation on a WhatsApp group from a friend noting the time of the concert in Cairo. The dress code was whatever, since the audience was invisible to one another, save for a numeric audience counter. About 3.4 million…
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Sara O. Ahmed 