Reversing injustice: on Utopian activism.(Association of Arab-American University Graduates)(American Arabic Association)(Organization overview)

From: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Hagopian, Elaine C. | Copyright information

THE BEGINNING

IT WAS MAY 1967. I HAD JUST SAID goodbye to Janet and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod and their four children in Northampton, MA. They were to depart later in the summer for Evanston, Illinois, where Ibrahim was to take up his new academic position at Northwestern University. I was leaving that day for Cambridge, MA to prepare for my new position at Simmons College in Boston. We had both completed five years at Smith College. It was during those five years that I develo...

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