7 April 2009
Cialis On Line
Posted by Fida under: Researchers on the move… Fida 1 .
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I came to Austria with the support of OeAD North- South scholarship program; cialis on line.When I had arrived Vienna, I felt like I am in heaven as I fully identified with the words of an Arabic song with respect to this particular city and I still feel that way; cialis on line. The University of Vienna is a special place for many reasons; cialis on line.But for me, it is the research topic and supervision that stands out; cialis on line.Our emphasis on Islamophopia as a Palestinian PhD scholar and a Jewish Austrian supervisor, and the ways we both have reorganized our own lives while interacting with each other as well as with others, gives us a distinct profile. In occupied Palestine, in paradox to the title, researchers on the move CAN’T move.
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Their stories can not be easily conveyed to those who have never lived it; cialis on line. Cialis on line: those who never had as students to wait powerlessly for solders with guns to allow them pass or not through a military- based check point in order to reach school or university, hospital or a medical center, someone’s own farm or even home.The female students are considered relatively luckier though for they go through what is called human path while males have to go through the “other path- the way it is assumed”.Many times, girls and boys take different trips for it is devastating to wait for someone’s partner including family members for several hours depending on ever- instable circumstances and the mood of the solder rather than distance – cialis on line.Regardless gender, you have to go through check points anyway and to prove you and your family members have a clean history – cialis on line.This implies none is black- listed for being politically active or imprisoned or wanted- you never know for also it is possible under Israeli law to administratively- imprison Palestinians without reasoning.However, students risk it every day for years and go to school; cialis on line.And so we convince ourselves that instead of losing our day in a high way as those in large industrial countries, we lose it at check points in cantoned Palestine.
For ambitious students, it is an extra challenge attempting to cross localized knowledge boundaries; cialis on line.For example, while seeking to bridge gaps as much between large scale of views not only within Palestinians but also with Europeans, my research demands movements in order to conduct interviews with the experts of the EU policy working in Palestine – cialis on line. Cialis on line: however, it is no way to enter Jerusalem, and no way under siege Gaza but possibly I can meet some in the West bank.But again I have to wait, schedule and reschedule my appointments and apologize much especially for none- Palestinian ID holders about my unintended delays behind checkpoints for they have better access within occupied Palestine than Palestinians and therefore are more assertive when it comes to time; cialis on line. Cialis on line: further, I have to drop the thoughts to meet active politicians for mostly are in prison and sometimes in case they are free “not imprisoned”, they may be less willing to express their political views so as not to endanger their life or position in undetermined Palestinian future.As for interviewing Israelis, how possible this could be for the impossibility as a Palestinian to enter Israel.I don’t know their language and they don’t know mine with illegal separating wall cialis on line, fence, barrier is being built, erected and expanded between us.
While in person interview is highly restricted and beyond researcher control, tech- advanced contacts is even worse.I am not sure if anyone getting my interview suggested topics by e-mail or telephone more than once will be voluntary responding without surveying the interviewer political affiliation, place of residence, social class and also religion, or in good cases, taking- ever building mutual trust.
The Palestinian experience is rich in stories of the occupation, and more continue every day – cialis on line.Mine is a delightful one.In one hand, finding an Austrian- based supervisor following a talk with an international professor working in a local university has been an asset to me; cialis on line.Unlike other North- south scholars cialis on line, I did not have to go through universities web sites in German language I do not know, surveying hundreds professors, and back forth hundreds students’ CVs surveyed by professors.I just e-mailed the one specialized professor as recommended – cialis on line.Luckily cialis on line, I met him in Palestine in a conference- visit of his. Cialis on line: we talked about my research upon a research proposal sent earlier to him, and more interestingly about who we are.By his approval, the OEAD criteria, among which, MA degree, professional experience, local institute support, mastering English language and age limit were met.
On the other hand, it was astonishing crossing borders and to be able to taste freedom even though I am aware deep down it is a temporary short- cut kind of freedom; cialis on line.I become sooner a fan of the city of art and music.It is, I confirm; cialis on line. Cialis on line: also, it is great to have the opportunity to meet with multi- cultural people with more than a million stories. Cialis on line: further, to pursue my doctorate studies in a well recognized central European academic settings; to have the access to move freely in Austria and also within Europe at large. Cialis on line: i came with a responsibility to voice my people at equal basis with Austrians and none- Austrian alike with joy sometimes and grief in other times, and I am content I do.
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9 Comments so far...
Yasid Says:
12 April 2009 at 12:14 am.
I do really appreciate the reciprocal schema you have harmonized in your approach of tackling the idea. It is really interesting in the mode of relating your individual academic experience to the distorted hyper-reality in occupied Palestine. Personally, I extremely intend to call these perceived circumstances in Palestine as “distorted hyper-reality” since the escalated image there is becoming as something beyond the common known reality. In such a discourse, the dialogue between the personal and the factual situations will serve in representing a human-close image that can construct a kind of TACTILE understanding and closer stand about reality. I am also grateful for your valuable mutual academic relation to your case, I mean Palestinian-Jewish student-Professor.
Go a head; it is really a significant argument.
Fida Says:
15 April 2009 at 1:59 pm.
The sound of “hyper reality” as Yasid calls it has indeed silenced many voices and even emotions and not only the Palestinians. It become embarrassing sometimes for some colleagues to ask how come my eyes as a Muslim woman, twinkle with tears when Fairuz sings for the churches of Jerusalem or when my Jewish Austrian professor could not do anything but embracing another Muslim woman wearing Hijab struggling to cross a check point in Occupied Palestine. She too was more surprised I guess. Personal- factual Incidents as such and others inspired me to research key factors influencing the EU boycott policy to Hamas elected government of people under occupation, shortly, in five days after election.
JOHN Says:
16 April 2009 at 1:10 pm.
To be the supervisor for a foreign student always offers the possibility of cross-cultural learning.For me as a scholar of the Middle East and a Jew who has worked for justice in Palestine for most of his concious life it was of particular significance to supervise the work of a female Muslim student with origins in Jaffa and growing up in Nablus. I was happy to be able to help Fida with her accomodation in Austria. I was also pleased by the opportunity of a personal and political exchange that clarified a lot of issues for both of us.I am sure that this kind of relationship can be very productive and inspiring for the direction of her research.
Mimi DiMello Says:
21 April 2009 at 9:39 am.
It is very interesting to have such a situation in a blog: the student and the supervisor, the palestinian and the jew, the man and the woman. Seems the perfekt communication?
Thank you this is enriching the diskussion.
I have a question: how do you deal with tensions and what kind of support do you give to Fida, John?
Fida Says:
25 April 2009 at 3:00 pm.
My supervisor’s support is not only in term of introducing a wide range and sometime opposing theories, analytical methodologies, intensive reading and discussions and follow up that is evident even in his comment right here but also in connection to influential incidents affecting Palestinian life at the receiving end such as mainstream media, scholarly and political efforts shedding lights on exclusive contextual facts in shaping perception and consequently xenophobic phenomenon. Jewish supervisor- Palestinian student relation presents one good academic way in understanding Islamophopia in connection to Antisemitism in a particular Israel- Palestine context.
yasin Says:
21 May 2009 at 9:34 pm.
Very interesting blog, fida. To be better informed, would you please identify Islamophobia?
Fida Says:
21 May 2009 at 10:18 pm.
Islamophobia is often referred to as fear, hatred or anti- Muslim. It appears mostly in a discourse on Muslim immigrants living as minorities in the West along with unemployment, alienation and violence. As a term, it dates to the1990s and derives from Xenophobia but it has been in rise in the aftermath of Sep. 11th. Islamophobic, racist and xenophobic resentments in many cases are inextricably intertwined. Islamophobia is characterized among other things, aggressive, supportive of terrorism, and engaged in clash of civilization. Further, Said argues that the denigration of Islamic civilization associated with Islamophobia is central to the concept of Western civilization.
Kylie BattName Says:
11 April 2010 at 10:11 pm.
Зарегистрировался на форуме, чтобы сказать Вам спасибо за помощь в этом вопросе, может, я тоже могу Вам чем-то помочь?…
I came to Austria with the support of OeAD North- South scholarship program…..
Kylie Batt Says:
20 April 2010 at 6:16 pm.
Я думаю, что Вы допускаете ошибку. Могу это доказать. Пишите мне в PM, поговорим….
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