{"id":28905,"date":"2013-02-20T04:28:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T04:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28905"},"modified":"2013-02-20T04:28:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T04:28:24","slug":"mixed-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28905","title":{"rendered":"Mixed feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/now.mmedia.me\/lb\/en\/reportsfeatures\/mixed_feelings\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed feelings<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/now.mmedia.me\/lb\/en\" target=\"_blank\">NOW.<\/a><br \/>\n2012-06-30<\/p>\n<p><em>NOW is the online source for news, features, analysis and much more, covering Lebanon, the Lebanese diaspora and the Middle East.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people photographed are so beautiful they make you feel like having mixed race babies,\u201d said Kevork Baboyan, one of many attendees at Wednesday\u2019s opening of the photography exhibition, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lb.boell.org\/web\/52-845.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Feelings<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, racism has slowly but steadily started to raise eyebrows in Lebanon, a country that is infamous for abusing migrant domestic workers and discriminating against refugees and other groups of society. Rarely, however, has anyone addressed racism between Lebanese until Lebanese-Nigerian activist Nisreen Kaj sought \u2013 in collaboration with Beirut-based Polish photographer Marta Bogdanska &#8212; to explore the concepts of race and identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiving in Beirut as a black Lebanese has [clearly highlighted] the hierarchy of skin color and ethnicity in the country,\u201d Kaj told NOW Extra. \u201cThis reality has gotten under my skin, which is only a figure of speech, for it is in fact about the surface, about the skin, about the way we perceive identity, race, and ethnicity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Opening at Hamra\u2019s Dar al-Musawwir, the launch combined images and interviews of some 30 Lebanese from African and Asian descent and was produced in cooperation with the Heinrich B\u00f6ll Foundation, Middle East Office&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;When asked whether racism was more prevalent in Lebanon as compared to other Arab nations, Khoury said it was \u201cparticularly [widespread] here, but this is exhibit is a start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey see my car keys and can\u2019t believe I own a car\u2026 so [people at the supermarket] follow me to see whether or not it\u2019s actually possible,\u201d said Khoury\u2019s mother laughingly, recounting the incident with equal humor and frustration&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/now.mmedia.me\/lb\/en\/reportsfeatures\/mixed_feelings\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed feelings NOW. 2012-06-30 NOW is the online source for news, features, analysis and much more, covering Lebanon, the Lebanese diaspora and the Middle East. \u201cThe people photographed are so beautiful they make you feel like having mixed race babies,\u201d said Kevork Baboyan, one of many attendees at Wednesday\u2019s opening of the photography exhibition, Mixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,394],"tags":[13732,13738,13737,13733],"class_list":["post-28905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-lebanon","tag-marta-bogdanska","tag-nisreen-kaj","tag-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}