victory!

exams are over!
i sat my last exam for this year, *near and middle eastern culture and society* (hmmm). that's it. until the end of september.
now relieved. feeling a bit sad and annoyed because the exam last friday was written while my brain was still at home. today went smoothly. my arguments cut through the issues like a knife through warm butter. thanks to thematic overlaps, i repeated one of the friday essays almost verbatim. is that plagiarism, when you copy from yourself? who cares, it's done, and now i can think about what to do for the next 3, no 4 months.
summer school at lse? boring (macroeconomics), difficult (exam!) and expensive (o my o my).
a conference on *islam in europe* on an island near athens? mmmmmmh...
work? ouch!

my exam questions from today, feel free to send me your answer essays:
-- explore the relation between nationalist conflict and sexuality.
-- how have ethnographers framed the complexities of urban life in the middle east?
-- orientalism as discussed by edward said is a thing of the past. discuss. (i got on my soapbox for this one)

and for those who'd like to get an idea of last friday's questions on international politics (the ones i tried to answer):
-- is globalisation a useful category to understand international politics of the middle east?
-- how, if at all, do gendered icons (*heroic men*, *martyrs' widows/mothers*) facilitate nationalist violence?
-- how did great power rivalry influence conflicts in the middle east?

please answer in handwritten essays, 1,000 words max per essay.
enjoy!