Zahir Janmohamed
Zahir Janmohamed is a Zell Writing Fellow at the University of Michigan and is co-founder of the James Beard-nominated podcast Racist Sandwich.
In a recent article he wrote for Eater as part of an artist residency at the Arab American National Museum, Janmohamed took a deep dive into how Dearborn’s Arab American-owned restaurants are coping with the challenges of the pandemic.
For much of the pandemic, Dearborn’s positive case rate has been disproportionately high compared to the rest of Wayne County. Though a vast majority of Dearborn residents take COVID-19 safety precautions seriously, restaurant owners still struggle to enforce social distancing, says Janmohamed.
Join us for a conversation between Author and Activist Anan Ameri and Professor and Activist Nadine Naber
About this Event
Dr. Anan Ameri is a scholar, author, activist, and community organizer. She is the founding Director of the Arab American National Museum (AANM) and Palestine Aid Society of America. She holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Jordan, an MA from Cairo University, and a PhD from Wayne State University in Detroit. She was a fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, a visiting scholar in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and served as Interim Director of the Institute for Jerusalem Studies. The recipient of numerous awards, Anan was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame in Lansing, Michigan in 2016 and received ACCESS’s Arab American of the Year award in 2020. She enjoys writing and has authored and edited several articles and publications. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Poetry is always an act of translation: taking a deeply personal vision and finding the words and sounds that allow this experience to take shape in another mind, across the divide of language, nationality and identity.
That’s something that Binghamton University alumna Mona Kareem knows well. She first published her poetry as a teenager in Kuwait, and has continued to write in both English and Arabic. After earning her master’s and then her PhD in comparative literature, she has also gone on to translate the work of other authors, and recently received a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship in Literature Translation.
Hour Detroit Magazine
February 15, 2021
Museums across the country and here in our own backyard are working to rebound in 2021 after in-person attendance and budgets withered last year. It will pose a tricky challenge for those at the helm. The six women profiled here are part of a national trend: More women than ever hold executive roles at museums, according to a survey released in 2018 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. But diversity is stagnant. The number of people of color in similar positions grew from just 11 percent to 12 percent between 2015 and 2018, when data was most recently available. All the women profiled pointed to mentorship as a possible remedy.