A Global Engagement Portfolio
A Global Engagement Portfolio
In my GEM Capstone class, we were given the challenging but very productive task of preparing a PechaKucha presentation to share our own stories, background, and Global Engagement journey with the larger GEM community. The idea of a PechaKucha is to force an engaging and constantly moving story through a slideshow of 20 pictures that …
For my midterm in Professor A. George Bajalia’s class The Idea of Palestine, we were tasked with analyzing a work that dealt with the Palestine question and its circulation amidst different circles. I chose to analyze Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman’s film It Must Be Heaven about a film director pitching his movie about Palestine to …
By my third month in Egypt, I’d frequently encountered not only how common dialogue surrounding Palestine was but specifically, how common support for Palestine was seen casually displayed. Going into Egypt knowing about the government’s strategic albeit strained relationship with Israel, as well as the refrain people have for openly talking about politics made this …
Going into CGST 206, Global Engagement In Practice, taught by Professor Anita Deeg-Carlin, I was incredibly excited for the study abroad component of the course. Throughout the class, we delved deep into the culture and issues across different social spheres in contemporary Africa, with a particular focus on Nairobi, Kenya in preparation for our trip …
Notes from my Architecture in the City of Cairo class field trip to the Mosque of Ibn Tulun in Cairo, Egypt during my semester abroad at the American University in Cairo, originally taken on iPhone notes app: Ibn Tulun Mosque Ziyadid – space between walls Souqs originally all along wall Steps reconstructed Not original inscription– …
For an International Art Cinema class during my senior fall, I was tasked to design a film based on one of the directors we’d talked about in class. The director I chose to embody was the legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, whose films touched on contemporary Iran through metanarratives that are framed as taking place …
For a milestone assignment in my Global Engagement Capstone seminar, we were tasked with selecting a photo and analyzing it through a critical, intercultural lens. I chose a photo from my time abroad in Egypt, inspired by the works of José Ortiz Echagüe, a Spanish Photographer I’d learned about in SPAN267 – Image/Word: Narrative and …
