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About Rana Salimi |
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| Rana Salimi was meant to become a biologist at some point and later a revolutionary who dreamed of changing her country first and the world's order afterwards!! Her ambitious fantasy ended up on stage where she learned to fantasize even more! Currently, she is a fifth-year PhD Candidate in the department of Theatre and Dance. Her thesis, "Visual Representation of Palestinian Female Martyrs Inside and Outside of Muslim Culture", offers a new perspective on Palestinian armed-resistance against Israeli occupation through performance studies lenses. Salimi is struggling with the notions of agency and autonomy of female paramilitaries in patriarchal Muslim cultures of the Middle East and the spectacularized representation of power in the martyrs' farewell-statement video-tapes. This argument conceptualizes in contrast to the Western feminist-secularist interpretation of female self-sacrifice which, more often than not, has ended up in objectification of Muslim female volunteers for martyrdom. Rana Salimi is also interested in Middle Eastern, especially Iranian, theatre and film of all times. She has taught theatre in her home department, as well as Persian for heritage speakers at UC San Diego, National University (Startalk program), and ISSD. |
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