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They have different modes of register and what they do And how central's language is So yeah First Question but me a request which is that you know I got cramps from my team is quoting your papers you were speaking and that which is in line with your your Moment, but we're the island of Faulkner But I would hope that there's a way that we get access your your words online or something I really appreciate having a chance to read and unpack your Presentation, but you're happy. I'll give it to you. Wonderful I I wanted to ask your thoughts about the notion of global citizenship and It was something that I myself an immigrant and living here for over 25 years already, but practice of work that takes me to other parts of the world and I always thought about that as an opportunity to to take in Different different ways of doing things and being Incorporated into my own way to open up my own sense of self I was listening to bandana Shiva speaking about how to how to how do we move forward from the situation we live in And she was an adamant advocate for the rebirth of a Global citizenship consciousness and I wonder what you thought about that. It's what he was talking about today And if that is possible beyond so moving beyond Actually traveling from one place to another And I'm not making a sense The notion of global citizenship, I think that there is an element of false false false The morning after September 11th, I'm walking towards my office Dear friend colleague, I've known her for decades on Columbia campus Very progressive politically, etc Comes to me and says But honey, why did they do this? I said, you know, I didn't come to ask you what they did After why do you think just because his name was Muhammad and my name is honey? I have an envelope into the mind of the mass murder Is a false identity? By which you have one name or another Or a sense of for example guilt that if Islam a lot is doing something you think then I have to feel ashamed because Or any other false identity, but the opposite of that is not a vacuous global citizenship the opposite of that I believe is What Zimmer called web of group affiliation that we generate around ourselves The notion of self that you said self is not abstract self Zimmer said The self that becomes manifested in society is the Is the result of a number of web of group affiliations with which to identify Whatever those webs of group affiliations are now through social networking an additional circle is made possible by virtue of in this web of group affiliation and I have things far more in common with people in remote parts of the world, but nothing in common with my own neighborhood And yet and vice versa. So my being iranian and living having lived in the US for 40 years Means nothing and this is what I can answer to my Conversation with me the question of hyphen. I don't know what the as soon as soon as you say, I'm an Arab American You have cross essentialized Arab and America as if there only one kind of Arab and one kind of America The hyphen Ross authenticates them both whereas far more realistic is this diversity and multiplicities of the new affiliations with which we were identified there is you professionally me identified with somebody Who lives actually in the in the enemy land as it were? But emotive. I mean we just saw this fantastic play last night about a Lebanese poet and he's really Translator who's in love with the poetry So Well, by the web of affiliation, I mean suddenly poetry become aware That creates two people that are supposed to be each other's enemies. I mean the whole drama is because of this cross crossing of these two boundaries that generates a tertiary mode of solidarity that I mean the whole drama is that they have to surpass that and the Coma erotic aspect helps it And food better The this is far more real than anything of it will grab me fantastic Palestinian Look at the thing Israeli documentary filmmaker has it Documentary called avenge, but one of my two eyes. I don't know if you have seen it It's absolute one of the best documentaries on Palestinian situation by an Israeli documentary Avenge, but one of my two eyes what are we does is he goes and asks Israelis to talk about their experience of As her husband And then visually he shows the predicament of Palestinians and Israelis and be known to themselves are providing a narrative of And the result is a fantastic document Hope it makes sense short time for questions we're going to take just one more and I invite you all to approach Dr. Dabashi and speak more during the lunchtime or the breaks But yeah, so we have one more time for questions Thank you so much I Have a question with a preference description of myself so I'm a Supposed to be a so-called Arab I have Shea Kurdish-Turkish According to some writers I've told me a war with myself I would I've noticed as a doctor is that There's this notion that a lot of us have a return and And Return to something and it's a very vague notion. I wish I hope you could talk to me or talk to us a little bit about this idea of return the pitfalls and the dangers and What is it that we're thinking about a sparring towards me when we talk about Just like every other great question the answer is in it meaning the the hybridity The multifaceted aspect which is real of your ideas, which is very similar to my ideas I also come from a southern part of the world and it made it even more attractive And the result of that without she mother very white in complexion We net and Like brown eyes and as socialist father a Very dark black complexion The column that is he's name was for the other column that is the other than the black and so we had a little bit of a Hotel there's no more a situation Minus mine is a John and they they married and they loved each other and that reasons obviously they are spending time So Many people say And then to make it even more exciting we had a mullah javad the line mullah javad will come Once a month, and he was about for mainly activists In his back in the 60s My father But then the other thing is he was involved in the railroad. So three weeks of the month That he has he had money for his vodka and Cooking for us and listening to uncle zoom and up to the hop. He was it was completely set Fourth week of the month he ran out of money. He had fishes vodka So he couldn't really really was cooking in the city to think so he became an ulcerized socialist Fourth week of the month See this but a biographical by way of saying they and then depending when will a job what came they got into the discussion They differ once the months whether he hits my father in his nationalist So The point is that in that real fantastic Cosmotic reality return to what? Before I'm supposed to return to work. First of all, there is no return 1997 I was just in 1997 I went back to Iran after 90 years. I mean, it was a completely different line Radical different line. I Move from New Jersey to New York. I don't think I'll be a ready Just crossing the Hudson River You see the thing is you never step in that little twice. We dip with change we value We become different creatures So this return is actually is actually the fiction because there is no home to return home Is where you hang your hat and say no to power? Finish finish the Q&A. Thank you so much