Manifold Destiny: Arabs at an American Crossroads of Exceptional Rule (Book)
Title: Manifold Destiny: Arabs at an American Crossroads of Exceptional Rule
Author: John Tofik Karam
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=082650132X
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry (082650132X)
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 082650132X

Simon Fraser University Presentation on "Manifold Destiny" (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Simon Fraser University Presentation on "Manifold Destiny"
Abstract: “I’m an American from the three Americas, more American than (George W.) Bush,” quipped Mohamad Barakat at the border where Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina meet. Since the mid-twentieth century, overwhelmingly Muslim Lebanese like Barakat have migrated to this crossroads called the tríplice fronteira in Portuguese, the triple frontera in Spanish, and the tri-border in English. This lecture and seminar will explore the transnational trade and activism of Muslim Lebanese across this borderland. In fulfilling what I call a “manifold destiny,” Muslim Lebanese are constitutive of, and constituted by, multiple centers of power in the hemisphere. They animate and endure various “state exceptions,” whereby states suspend laws or norms in allegedly “exceptional” circumstances which become part of the status quo. In trading and mobilizing under past authoritarian governments as well as present-day counterterrorist regimes, Muslim Lebanese face a similar fate in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century Americas.
Author: John Tofik Karam
Date: 03/18/2018
Location: Simon Fraser University
Primary URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/sfu-vancouver/dr-john-tofik-karam-manifold-destiny/1774438069531203/

Um excepcional destino americano : Os árabes na tríplice fronteira (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Um excepcional destino americano : Os árabes na tríplice fronteira
Abstract: “Sou americano das três Américas ... mais americano que o próprio George W. Bush", declarou Mohamad Barakat na fronteira onde o Brasil, o Paraguai e a Argentina se encontram. Como Barakat, milhares de libaneses, palestinos e sírios são agentes do que chamaria de um “destino excepcional”. O livro que estou terminando, sobre o que eu vou falar agora, examina os árabes frente aos regimes autoritários e contraterroristas. Eu argumento que os árabes tendem a aceitar, em vez de rejeitar, os termos excepcionais de vários governos num tipo de “destino” ou seja, sob circunstâncias não “de sua escolha e sim sob aquelas com as que defrontam diretamente...” como mantém um ditado já bem-divulgado. Desde meados do século XX até hoje, essa acomodação árabe na fronteira revela uma história hemisférica ainda inacabada de ordens excepcionais do nosso passado autoritário e do nosso presente contraterrorista.
Author: John Tofik Karam
Date: 08/20/2019
Location: Universidade de Brasília
Primary URL: https://mundoramanet.tumblr.com/post/187034430471/programa-de-p%C3%B3s-gradua%C3%A7%C3%A3o-em-ri-da-unb-promove
Primary URL Description: O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais da Universidade de Brasília convida para a conferência de abertura do seu semestre letivo, sobre o tema “O excepcional destino americano : Os árabes na tríplice fronteira”, a ser proferida pelo Professor John Karam (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – UIUC, Estados Unidos)

The Latin America and Caribbean Islamic Studies Newsletter (Blog Post)
Title: The Latin America and Caribbean Islamic Studies Newsletter
Author: John Tofik Karam
Abstract: In the interview that follows, I ask Karam to further reflect on some of these points and address some questions that might be particularly relevant to the LACISA community .
Date: 11/01/2022
Primary URL: https://mailchi.mp/3ff210612237/latin-america-caribbean-islamic-studies-newsletter-vol3-no1
Primary URL Description: In the interview that follows, I ask Karam to further reflect on some of these points and address some questions that might be particularly relevant to the LACISA community .
Website: Latin America and Caribbean Islamic Studies

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