HowlRound: After premiering in December 2013 in Amman, Jordan to international acclaim, the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University, founded by Ambassador Cynthia Schneider from the School of Foreign Service and myself, has planned to host these remarkable women this week in their first North American performances as part of a two-week residency to launch Myriad Voices: A Cross-Cultural Performance Festival, a two-year project that is part of the Building Bridges Campus Community Engagement Program—Expanding Awareness and Understanding about Muslim Societies through the Performing Arts, from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP).
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I am not sure how to respond to this article. Feelings of dread, anger, sympathy and many others arose as I continued to read through this article. These women have been displaced by possibly the worst thing in the human experience, war. War and violence have the potential to bring out evil in people. The US state department has reasons and some of that reason is probably valid. Expectations are hard to make, because once an expectation is made then it will be a very short time before the next and the next. That makes sense, but then you still want to say BUT.
Also the comments toward these women, Muslim faithful, and the world in general, are unspeakable. Those statements are incredibly frustrating and saddening that those feelings are still there, but still people are people and I do sadly think some things about humanity will not change.
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