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Proceedings of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting
Qualitative Inquiry
Considering the current political climate and the terrorist attacks associated with few Muslims a... more Considering the current political climate and the terrorist attacks associated with few Muslims around the world, being Muslim females in the United States is challenging. While our religious identity is visible by our Islamic attire, we found ourselves in the frontlines fighting against hatred, stereotypes, bigotry, and racism toward Muslims. In this article, we present our experiences of living a non-White existence when teaching at a White institution in higher education in the United States. Adding to the existing body of research about Muslims in the United States, the study aims at shedding the lights on this experience of Muslim female academics to raise awareness about such struggle and to promote more inclusive environment for Muslims in educational sphere. To voice these experiences, we utilized poetry as a research method by selecting poems from our poetic autoethnography. The analysis of the poems revealed three major themes: (a) Conceptualizing Agency, (b) The Muslim Ba...
This article aims to excavate nuances about the cyber/digital rhetoric and its impact on conceptu... more This article aims to excavate nuances about the cyber/digital rhetoric and its impact on conceptualizing " global " literacies to emphasize the importance of reimagining these literacies from a sociocultural perspective. Therefore, with a particular focus on power relations, social issues, and inequality as an under-explored area in the expansion of digital/ " global " literacies, this article explores the techno-utopian underpinnings of the cyber narrative. This narrative is implicated in the Facebook-led initiative to spread " connectedness " to the two-thirds of the world who, according to Internet.org (2015), are not " connected " yet. In focusing on the Facebook-led initiative in this article, I am not attempting to promote this initiative as the only option to examine the cyber narrative, but to reveal with great specificity in what ways the current cyber narrative repackages the " autonomous " model of literacies that emphasizes the dualistic ideology of " literate " vs. " illiterate. " This article also uncovers serious implications of this cyber narrative on people from economically disadvantaged nations and communities in terms of reinforcing a sense of dis-citizenship, marginalization, disempowerment, and inequality.
Proceedings of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting
Qualitative Inquiry
Considering the current political climate and the terrorist attacks associated with few Muslims a... more Considering the current political climate and the terrorist attacks associated with few Muslims around the world, being Muslim females in the United States is challenging. While our religious identity is visible by our Islamic attire, we found ourselves in the frontlines fighting against hatred, stereotypes, bigotry, and racism toward Muslims. In this article, we present our experiences of living a non-White existence when teaching at a White institution in higher education in the United States. Adding to the existing body of research about Muslims in the United States, the study aims at shedding the lights on this experience of Muslim female academics to raise awareness about such struggle and to promote more inclusive environment for Muslims in educational sphere. To voice these experiences, we utilized poetry as a research method by selecting poems from our poetic autoethnography. The analysis of the poems revealed three major themes: (a) Conceptualizing Agency, (b) The Muslim Ba...
This article aims to excavate nuances about the cyber/digital rhetoric and its impact on conceptu... more This article aims to excavate nuances about the cyber/digital rhetoric and its impact on conceptualizing " global " literacies to emphasize the importance of reimagining these literacies from a sociocultural perspective. Therefore, with a particular focus on power relations, social issues, and inequality as an under-explored area in the expansion of digital/ " global " literacies, this article explores the techno-utopian underpinnings of the cyber narrative. This narrative is implicated in the Facebook-led initiative to spread " connectedness " to the two-thirds of the world who, according to Internet.org (2015), are not " connected " yet. In focusing on the Facebook-led initiative in this article, I am not attempting to promote this initiative as the only option to examine the cyber narrative, but to reveal with great specificity in what ways the current cyber narrative repackages the " autonomous " model of literacies that emphasizes the dualistic ideology of " literate " vs. " illiterate. " This article also uncovers serious implications of this cyber narrative on people from economically disadvantaged nations and communities in terms of reinforcing a sense of dis-citizenship, marginalization, disempowerment, and inequality.