Final Flashcards
Egyptian boundary stelae, characteristics
Ivory door inlays from Medinet Habu
Depicts some of the nine bows.Teritorry as body. Libyan, Nubian, and Asiatic
Landscape marking in ancient Egypt: elements and concepts
Ancient Egyptians organized and understood the landscape according to cosmic concepts. expressing and formalizing ideology in the landscape. Way of asserting power and control in political terms, but also marking the edge of the ordered world: ma’at/isfet Using border stelae and temples
Borders signs in modern world: elements and concepts, comparison with ancient markings
Both can have symbols of community (flag, state flower, motto). Local language. Name of governer/leader. Religous symbol. Rule or expectation of entry. (speed limit, “buckle up”
Boundary Stele of Senusret III
- Rock cut monument
- Flat surface cut into the living rock that includes text and images
- Type of object created for religious contexts
- Text asserting royal control and prerogative
Symbols of divine authority, for example wings of Nekhbet, Vulture Goddess of Upper Egypt
Abu Simbel Temples
North Sudan along nile river. Four egyptians carved on side of mountain. place for people to worship Pharaoh Ramses II as a god following his death, as well as to be a show of power toward the recently conquered territory of Nubia.
Temporary Protection Status (in Turkey)
Number of syrians under protection started rising in 2012. Syrians make up a big percentage of Turkey population. Many kids without Turkish citizenship also not citizen of Syria (they are stateless population). In September 2022: more than
3.6 million Syrians. No path to refugee status. Only displaced ppl from Europe can apply for refugee status.
Only 14% of Syrians live in refugee camps along the Turkey-Syria border
others live in cities with Istanbul and Gaziantep holding the largest amount.
Refugee, asylum seeker, migrant
Refugees are persons who are outside their country of origin for reasons of feared persecution, conflict, generalized violence, or other circumstances that have seriously disturbed public order and, as a result, require international protection.
An asylum-seeker is a person who has left their country and is seeking protection from persecution and serious human rights violations in another country, but who hasn’t yet been legally recognized as a refugee and is waiting to receive a decision on their asylum claim. Seeking asylum is a human right.
if you are not a refugee or an asylum seeker, you are a migrant.
These terms are violent make the nation state very central, suggests using ”people crossing borders”
Shifting political discourse about Syrians in Turkey
1st Syrians as brothers and sisters, fellow Muslims, guests
2nd Syrians as burden to Turkey Blaming the EU
3rd Threat of invasion
Dehumanization
Giorgio Agamben’s “homo sacer”: when people are reduced to bare life. Concept he was working on during the holocaust
They did not feel that much
Not seen as humnas but as bare life
Judith Butler’s grievability: when certain people’s life becomes worthless, or non-life, their death becomes ungrievable. No matter how many stories we see about refugee suffering, their lives become worthless.
Anzaldua’s conceptualization of borderlands as “open wounds” to emphasize violence and trauma. When they rub against each other but they are violent
Critical Discourse Analysis method
- Three scales of analysis:
- Micro: rich description of an “event” in terms of content, structure, grammar, vocabulary, intertextuality (how it relates to other texts), and rhetorical devices
- Meso: interpretation of the discourse by analyzing how the discourse is produced, spreads, and changes
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Macro: explanation based on the broader social or political context
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Palestinian fragmentation and community
- 1948 refugees living in refugee camps
- Palestinian immigrants to other countries (like Soraya)
- Palestinians living under occupation, both in refugee camps and outside the camps
- Palestinians with Israeli citizenship
- increasingly since 2007, differences between Palestinians in the West Bank and those in Gaza
Omar Main Characters(Omar, Tareq, Amjad, Nadia, Agent Rami)
Omar- lives in the west bank, baker, member of resistance group against ocupation
Tareq – Leader of resistance group
Amjad – 3rd member of the group (have known all three since childhood)
Nadia – Omar wants to marry her, but marries Amjad
Agent Rami – Meets omar in prison, tricks omar and records omar’s confession.
Plot of Omar
- Militant operation
- Omar’s imprisonment & entrapment
- Omar’s release and re-imprisonment
- Omar’s second release
- The truth about Amjad & death of Tarek
- Agent Rami re-approaches Omar
- Death of Agent Rami
Theme of imprisonment and mobility in Omar
Film begins by a metaphorical prison of the wall. Flim keeps moving from action and mobility to still shots. Citizens strive to move around even with all restrictions.
