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It is women’s rights to end misogynist neocolonialism and its sponsored theocratic patriarchal dictator regimes

·      Where do you come from? ·       Before I came to live in Slovenia, I lived for a few months in Germany, and before that, I lived my whole life in Jordan. So, am I coming from Jordan? ·       Oh, what a nice king and beautiful queen you have! […]

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The Strike of Mecca

“The Strike of Mecca” A short story from the series of 1001 nights of “NOT your Scheherazade” by Samar Zughool. In 2011, I went to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, with my mother.  I did not go there for answers; I already had them, but I went in my search for closure! For any kind of closure! […]

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Exoticization in the Decolonial Discourse

The Clash of Egos “We will Save Them from Us” and “We will Study Them to Upgrade Us.” As a performing artist and community art director, I often come across the concept of identity, which triggers me personally and professionally. Therefore, in this article, I investigate these triggers from a starting point of “what is […]

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“Al-Lat,” “Al Uzza,” and “Manat”

A poem in English and Arabic by Samar Zughool. Samar is a community art creator and performing artist; through her series of practices, “SAMA Community Arts,” she co-creates public performative journeys that deconstruct social communication as free of the enforced binarism of “nation-state” and “state-nation” as both tools and products of colonialism along with enforced gender […]