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Please Say It, Tim Fish, Taqdees Mahmood

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Time For A Cowboy To Dream, Nic Rago

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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The Creation Of An African American Jewish Culinary Tradition: Michael Twitty And The Passover Seder As A Vehicle For Remembering Trauma And Celebrating Survival, Samira Mehta

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

The Exodus of the Israelites has long held meaning for African American Christians, as noted by scholars of African American religious history. Jewish studies scholars, meanwhile, have written about both Passover and Jewish relationships to the Exodus. Michael Twitty, public historian, James Beard award-winning author, and memoirist, has fused an identity for himself by drawing on the foodways of both traditions to remember and memorialize the trauma of both traditions While Twitty uses food to create meaning in the context of holidays, his memoirs, Kosher Soul and The Cooking Gene, explore how the food of trauma, poverty, and resilience provide …

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An Archer's Deceit, Alexandria Marie Brazle

English Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

Inspired by the grand legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood, my novel, “An Archer’s Deceit,” blends these well-beloved stories with fantasy elements and the innovation of the 19th century Industrial Revolution. Set in a Victorian Camelot, sixteen-year-old Sybilla must survive living a dual life as one of Prince Arthur’s ruthless knights while playing a role in usurping the monarchy for the freedom of outlawed magic users, like herself. Forced to deal with her morals and her personal story while instigating a government coup, Sybilla must eventually choose a side, or it’ll end up killing her and those she’s grown …

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The Complexity Of The Veil, Muskan Khan

Senior Theses

Women fight injustices and underrepresentation all over the world, however, the women’s right movement does not look the same all over the world. Every country and every woman is fighting for different rights that they need, but not all women share the same experiences when it comes to the women’s rights movement. There are many intersections that determine the experiences of every individual woman. One of the intersections this paper will examine is the lived experience of women and Islam and the intersections between identity and gender in the Arab world. It’s important to note that in this paper, although …

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