{"id":18274,"date":"2017-08-12T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=18274"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:27:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T15:27:55","slug":"18274_-oh-isis-up-yours-opens-in-chicago-aug-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2017\/08\/12\/18274_-oh-isis-up-yours-opens-in-chicago-aug-19\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Oh ISIS Up Yours&#8221; opens in Chicago Aug. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.ovationtix.com\/trs\/pr\/971704\">Jihad Against Violence: Oh ISIS Up Yours:<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em>August 19th at 4:00 pm and August 20th at 4:00 pm<\/h2>\n<p><strong>&#8220;What? ISIS? The Goddess? From Egypt? What are you doing here, in\u00a0America, in my Pakistani American fantasy play\u2026I must be dreaming\u2026&#8221;<\/strong><strong> -Woman #1, <em>Jihad Against Violence: Oh ISIS Up Yours<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Drawing from her work on <em>Jihad Against Violence<\/em> and <em>Sext of Saudade<\/em>, Fawzia Afzal-Khan&#8217;s <em>Jihad Against Violence: Oh ISIS Up Yours <\/em>is a Muslim feminist response to the hijacking of Islam by patriarchal extremists.\u00a0Afzal-Khan&#8217;s unfiltered, stream of consciousness reflections provide a potent indictment of the surreal and sardonic world we now inhabit and a welcome reminder that sisterhood is powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Presented as part of Silk Road Rising&#8217;s &#8220;Crescent and Star: Arab and Muslim Journeys&#8221; reading series, and directed by George Potter, <em>Oh ISIS Up Yours<\/em> promises to be an insightful and entertaining exploration of Islam by a leading Pakistani scholar.\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/silkroadrising.us6.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=5e2ec237176e8626afcc298a1&amp;id=228d692b45&amp;e=f233151c49\" target=\"_blank\">Buy Your Tickets Today! \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fawzia Afzal-Khan<\/strong>\u00a0is a Pakistani American professor of English at Montclair State University. Afzal-Khan received her BA from Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, Pakistan, and her MA and PhD. in English Literature from Tufts University. A University Distinguished Professor, Afzal-Khan was awarded The &#8220;Excellence in Public Life Award&#8221; by the American Muslim Alliance in 2008. She also serves on the editorial board of\u00a0<em>Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies<\/em>.\u00a0Author of three monographs and two edited volumes, Afzal-Khan has published extensively in academic journals as well as in newspapers and on public blogs on issues related to postcolonial studies, feminism, and political Islam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Silk Road Theater presents Fawzia Afzal-Khan&#8217;s Muslim feminist response to the hijacking of Islam by patriarchal extremists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":118274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-57_english-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207262,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274\/revisions\/207262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}