lsakr
Welcome to the working wiki site for grad student, Laila Shereen Sakr. Please excuse the mess....
My more presentable website...
lailashereen.com
Contact
lsakr (at) you see ess see (dot) com>> cell (202) 462 6242
Curriculum Vitae
Bio
Laila Shereen Sakr <VJ Um Amel> is an Egyptian-American poet, vj, activist, and digital media artist. Formerly multimedia and publications editor at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Laila is currently a graduate student in Digital Arts and New Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her current endeavor is building a repository for Arab Digital Media, and projecting “Remixes from the Archive by VJ Um Amel.” (Um Amel is Arabic for “Mother of Hope”).
Other Courses
220: Computer Programming Arts!
277: Independent Study?
Courses Fall 2007
201: Recent Methods and Approaches
- Ideology of Media: Walter Benjamin and Espen Aarseth
- Survelliance/Biopolitics: Michel Foucault, Slavoj Zizek, and Victor Burgin
- Game Theory: Henry Jenkins and Jesper Juul
- Cyborgs: Donna Haraway
- Emergence: Sarah Kember and Mark C. Taylor
- Virtuality: N. Katherine Hayles and Brian Massumi
- Globalization: Iba Ndiaye Djiadji, Arjun Apadurai, and Olu Oguibe
- Embodiment: Henri Bergson, Marc Hansen, and Jean-Francois Lyotard
Beyond Walls: Arab Urban Arts Collaborative