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Free Spirit, Dalia Aladin

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Free Spirit

Senior Project submitted to

The Division of Arts

of Bard College

by

Dalia Aladin

Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

May 2022

Artist Statement

‘Free Spirit’, the title of my debut album, captures sounds of alternative hip-hop and R&B. With complex and creative lyricism, the songs showcased in this album explore my philosophy of life as a young adult and unique woman. I use my music as a tool to transform the thoughts that shape my perspective into a musical experience. Creating my music that contributes to all that already exists in the world, allows for my inspiration to be both …

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Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

The Muslim Question: France’S Reconstruction Of The Clash Of Civilizations Story, Shayna Koczur

Senior Projects Spring 2018

rench Republicanism used Muslim immigrant groups in order to re create a “clash of civilizations” novel in France as a way to preserve Republican Values. In order to argue this, I will explain how Republicanism functions, how it was challenged, and how it was mutated against Islamic Post Colonial immigrants in order to justify its worth when France was faced with a change in demographics and modernization. This paper will aim to answer why non secular Muslims in France seem non- integratable and will pull on France’s Republican past, immigration model, and history with Islam in order to answer this …