The Selected Works of Yussef El Guindi最新文献

{"title":"Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World","authors":"H. Abdelsalam","doi":"10.5040/9781350057159.00000054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350057159.00000054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":268997,"journal":{"name":"The Selected Works of Yussef El Guindi","volume":"78 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124264079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Back of the Throat","authors":"Yussef El Guindi","doi":"10.5040/9781350057159.00000020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350057159.00000020","url":null,"abstract":"AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION Back of The Throat began as a paranoid thought game. In those first few months after 9/11 as an Arab/MuslimAmerican one wasn't quite sure where one stood. What laws were still in place to protect one from government inquisitiveness or from a government, rightly or wrongly, deciding to throw aside civil liberty concerns in the need to protect the country from an amorphous enemy whose potential for another strike was very real. In this climate, where one feared officials needing to look and act tough and avoid allowing more terrorists through the net, I personally, on a visceral level, found myself fearing a knock on the door. For no logical reason, I should add. Names were being called in. I remember one person advising a girlfriend of hers to call the F.B.I, because her Iranian boyfriend had been acting quite suspicious. (\"He's so secretive. Never let's on what he's up to.\") One news report I read talked of a man who called the paramedics because his wife was having a heart attack. When the paramedics arrived and saw the material he had in his house-book titles that alarmed them and other apparently subversive material (I forget the specifics of the article read on a website over four years ago) they called the police and the man was arrested. Then there were the news reports of people being pulled aside at airport screenings because of the reading material they'd brought with them. Men were being kicked off airplanes because the pilot read the manifest and didn't feel safe flying with a Muslim on board. Generally speaking, Arab/Muslim men flying together on an airplane was a bad idea. Non-Arab passengers were nervous seeing us seated together. In those first few weeks after 9/11, I even found myself reluctant to go to an airplane restroom for fear I would alarm someone. I would sit there, full bladder getting fuller, thinking, this is insane. Everyone has gone insane. Justifiably so, of course. The attacks were unprecedented. Hideous and mind-blowing. Few of us had been quite this dumbstruck by an event. And God knows, there are a lot of hideous events going on around the world to choose from. So the public and official response...! well understand why they might have erred on the side of \"presume guilt until proven otherwise.\" Which led me to wonder what in my house, among my possessions, might alarm government officials were they to come for a casual visit, to make casual inquiries, as they were doing at that time. Knocking on doors, after being given those \"tips.\" The rumors of this happening, true or not, were rampant during those first few months. And so the paranoid thought game began, and turned into a play. A few things that made the writing of this play difficult: Getting enough distance from my own fears, from the heartbreaking news going on around me, to find the humor 1 knew mis play had to have were I to avoid making it unrelentingly harsh. I kept putting it aside whenever I felt the play drifting into areas wh","PeriodicalId":268997,"journal":{"name":"The Selected Works of Yussef El Guindi","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125577220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}