Respond to the prompt; you response to the first prompt can be a few sentences; your response to prompt #2 should be about 1.5 – 2 paragraphs.
1) In Farha Ghannam’s article “Contested Traditions: Gender and Mourning Practices in Egypt”, Ghannam notes the differences between how older women (such as Karim’s mother) mourn a death, and how younger women (such as Karim’s wife) have learned to mourn death based on new religious teachings. Briefly describe the differences between how Karim’s mother and Karim’s wife mourned his death.
2) A graphic ethnography (i.e., a graphic ‘novel’ based on anthropological research) set in Egypt around the time of the start of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Lissa tells the story of two young friends – one, an American girl living in Egypt because her parents have moved there for work, and the other an Egyptian girl who is the daughter of the ‘boab’ (janitor/super) in the apartment building where they both live. Their friendship crosses boundaries of nationality and class, and through the story of their friendship over many years (in Part I, while they are young, and then, in Part II, when they are in college) we come to see how their lives take separate paths even as they remain intertwined. Both have family members that experience illness, and that impacts their lives in different ways. After reading these two chapters, simply summarize what you think are the important themes and details in this story.