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Guest Bio: Daniel Drennan ElAwar was adopted via Lebanon to the United States at the age of two months. In 2004 he returned sight unseen, and taught graphic design and illustration at various Beirut universities. He continues to work as a special advisor to the Beirut-based children's rights organization Badael/Alternatives on issues of adoption and adoptee return. From January to June, 2016, he was a research fellow at the Asfari Institute of Civil Society and Citizenship, focusing on adoption and citizenship in terms of displacement, dispossession, and disinheritance. As of June 2016, he is in reunion with his family in Greater Syria. He currently works as an associate professor teaching Illustration and Printmaking at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada.
Resource List:
https://ecuad.academia.edu/DanielDrennanElAwar
danielibnzayd.wordpress.com/
Term coined by Steven Newcomb, Executive Director, Indigenous Law Institute. http://ili.nativeweb.org/perspect.html
[In Arab culture, one is known as "son of" and one's father's name; here I state I am my mother's son.]
https://www.academia.edu/39679794/Daniel_Ibn_Bahija_An_Open_Letter_to_Lebanon
On Extirpation, Rerooting, and Creative Liberation
https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40087/On-Extirpation,-Rerooting,-and-Creative-Liberation
Daniel's recommended reading list
Dorothy Roberts- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Dorothy Roberts- Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare
Dorothy Roberts- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Kali Akuno- Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
Lisa Marie Cacho- Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (Nation of Nations)
Orlando Patterson- Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
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By matthew anthonylittle did u know is a listener supported show. If you've found our conversations meaningful please consider joining our patreon, here
you can support our work for as little as $5 per month.
Guest Bio: Daniel Drennan ElAwar was adopted via Lebanon to the United States at the age of two months. In 2004 he returned sight unseen, and taught graphic design and illustration at various Beirut universities. He continues to work as a special advisor to the Beirut-based children's rights organization Badael/Alternatives on issues of adoption and adoptee return. From January to June, 2016, he was a research fellow at the Asfari Institute of Civil Society and Citizenship, focusing on adoption and citizenship in terms of displacement, dispossession, and disinheritance. As of June 2016, he is in reunion with his family in Greater Syria. He currently works as an associate professor teaching Illustration and Printmaking at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada.
Resource List:
https://ecuad.academia.edu/DanielDrennanElAwar
danielibnzayd.wordpress.com/
Term coined by Steven Newcomb, Executive Director, Indigenous Law Institute. http://ili.nativeweb.org/perspect.html
[In Arab culture, one is known as "son of" and one's father's name; here I state I am my mother's son.]
https://www.academia.edu/39679794/Daniel_Ibn_Bahija_An_Open_Letter_to_Lebanon
On Extirpation, Rerooting, and Creative Liberation
https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40087/On-Extirpation,-Rerooting,-and-Creative-Liberation
Daniel's recommended reading list
Dorothy Roberts- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Dorothy Roberts- Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare
Dorothy Roberts- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Kali Akuno- Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
Lisa Marie Cacho- Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (Nation of Nations)
Orlando Patterson- Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
treat the show like your Uber Driver and give us 5 stars, and leave us a review! tell us what is most meaningful to you- that helps matthew know how he is impacting you, and inspires him in this work. (as well as helps us get into algorithms)