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Reframing the Iraq War Through Verbatim Theatre: A Lyotardian Postmodern Rendering of Jonathan Holmes’s Fallujah
Fallujah, by Jonathan Holmes (2007), is one of the archetypal examples of verbatim theatre, which addresses the truths of the Iraq War through dramatised eyewitness accounts and documentation reconstructions. Sketched in the Second Battle of Fallujah, the play reveals moral, political, and epistemological aspects of how modern warfare is presented. This article hinges on the postmodern theory of Jean-François Lyotard—especially the concepts of language games, paralogy, and the differend—to discuss the play Fallujah as a subversion of official grand narratives of the Iraq War. Through the use of testimonial intertextuality, irony and fragmentation, Holmes builds a multidimensional tableau of discourse contradictions in which truth is relative, and legitimacy is constantly deferred. The play turns into a meta-discursive critique of Western power dynamics, challenging the manner in which the knowledge is created, distributed, and twisted in the name of liberation and humanitarianism. Further, the article examines both dramaturgical and aesthetic techniques that lend truthfulness to Holmes’ concept of the verbatim approach as it dislocates the truth in relation to war and victimhood. The results help us comprehend the role of modern theatre in the reconstruction of the cultural memory and morality in the post-war era. The article concludes that Fallujah is a vivid example of postmodern theatrical resistance, an ethical and artistic response to commodity violence and the obliteration of lived suffering.
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أسمى مراتب الشرف : ذكريات من سني حياتي في واشنطن
هذه قصة إحدى أكثر نساء العالم تميزا واستئثارا بالإعجاب، قصة كوندوليزا رايس، مستشارة الأمن القومي، ووزيرة الخارجية السابقة لأعوام خدمتها الثمانية في أعلى مستويات الحكم. فهي من موقعها في رئاسة الدبلوماسية الأمريكية جالت حول العالم من دون انقطاع تقريبا، في سعيها لإيجاد، أرضية مشتركة مع أعداء ألداء، أو التوصل لاتفاق بخصوص إحدى القضايا التي كانت سببا لخلاف ما، وبذلك تجد لها سجلا رائعا من الانجازات. تغلبت هذه المرأة كذلك على حقبة التمييز العنصري في الحقوق المدنية لتغدو أستاذة جامعية متألقة تنتزع الإعجاب، وخبيرة في الشئون الخارجية. وكذلك تميزت خلال موقعها كمستشارة لجورج دبليو بوش إبان حملته عام 2000م، وعندما وقعت أحداث 11 سبتمبر في أمريكا وجدت رايس نفسها في مركز الجهود المكثفة للإدارة الأمريكية للحفاظ على أمن وسلامة أمريكا وهى تصف هذه الأحداث التي شهدتها أمريكا في كتابها، وكذلك في عام 2004م انشدت عيون الأمة مجددا على رايس التي مثلت أمام لجنة 11-9 لتجيب عن العديد من الأسئلة حول استعداد أمريكا وردها الفوري على أحداث سبتمبر، كذلك في عام 2005 أنيط بها مسئولية المساعدة في تشكيل وتنفيذ سياسة الرئيس الخارجية عندما تم تعيينها وزيرة للخارجية، وهى تعتبر الوزيرة السادسة والستون للخارجية في أمريكا وهى أول امرأة سوداء تتقلد هذا المنصب، وبالتالي فحياتها مليئة بالأحداث الحافلة والمراحل الطويلة والتي تقصها علينا في هذا الكتاب وتسرد لنا الكثير من التفاصيل والخفايا.
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Telling America's Story in Communist Times
The U.S. Information Agency (USIA) was able to open an American library in the center of town that became a mecca for students and other intellectually curious people. [...]the natural friendliness and even pro-Americanism of many Romanians meant that they often were less fearful than Russians about interacting, if cautiously, with embassy officials. Dr. Rice at the time was a 31-year-old University of Denver foreign policy expert who specialized in nuclear strategic planning. Condoleezza Rice, of course, became National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush and then Secretary of State in his administration.
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Emotional and Gendered Sense-Making through Apologies for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
This article examines the specific, gendered discourses, which can be uncovered within political apologies for conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) and sexualized torture. While apologies are often perceived as either cynical, normatively “empty” gestures that seek to carry out strategic interests or as attempts by political actors to (albeit, often inadequately) emphasize their commitment to addressing past violence and associated cultures of impunity, a feminist analysis of two cases of apology for CRSV (the Japanese imperial “comfort women” and the United States’ infamous Abu Ghraib torture “scandal”) demonstrates that political apologies are rich affective–discursive, deliberately emotional sites at which CRSV is explained and/or accounted for by the state. Specifically, I trace how political apologies operate to discursively and affectively claim and renounce institutional responsibility for CRSV through the common-sense but “slippery” gendered logics of rational/emotional and public/private.
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Condoleezza Rice Appointed Director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
Professor Rice joined Stanford University in 1981, where she served as provost from 1993 to 1999. She was national security advisor to President George W. Bush before serving as U.S. Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009.
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President Bush's 2005 Mongolia Visit
Ultimately, over 400 Mongolians were invited by both sides, and the audience included not only officials but also soldiers (including two heroes who served in Iraq and who received medals from Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld during his October 2005 visit) and their families, and prominent civil society and business leaders. U.S. attendees included First Lady Laura Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Ambassador Slutz, and several other high-level White House and National Security Council officials. Progress Toward Democracy and Peacekeeping During the year leading up to Bush's visit-long before the visit was announced-numerous high-level visits in both directions continued the momentum toward a closer relationship, including the first-ever visits to Mongolia by a Speaker of the House (Dennis Hastert) and Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld). Secretary Rumsfeld's visit focused on U.S. support for the transformation of the Mongolian Armed Forces into an international peacekeeping force and its contribution to the global war on terrorism, specifically, Mongolia's commitment of 190 peacekeepers to the Multinational Force in Iraq. Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. had provided military assistance to enable Mongolia to transform its armed forces into an international peacekeeping force.
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Meet the Press, April 4, 2004
On this edition of Meet the Press: Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton discuss the September 11 Commission; Karen Hughes discusses her new book.
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