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About Cynthia Weber

Cynthia Weber is an American academic and Professor of International Relations at Sussex University. She also works as a documentary filmmaker, and is the author of ‘I am an American’: Filming the Fear of Difference. Her films about Julia Shearson and the other US citizens discussed in this article can be viewed at www.iamanamericanproject.com

Articles by Cynthia Weber

Wednesday 7th September

‘I am an American’: living September 11, 2001, ten years on

An American professor of international relations who is also a documentary film-maker invites us to share in her unique pursuit of answers to the following question: How can we remember September 11, 2001 as fully as we can, including those things about it we would rather forget? For it is this more complete history that is shaping who we are.

Define ‘Meltable’ American

The legalisation of same sex marriage in New York and Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas’s announcement that he is an undocumented immigrant raise questions of the nature and limits of the American ‘melting pot’. Who is a ‘meltable American?’
Tuesday 11th September

“I Am an American”: portraits of post-9/11 US citizens

On the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, openDemocracy hears from those who say "I am an American" in a different voice

Wednesday 9th November

Not without my sister: imagining a moral America in 'Kandahar'

Shortly after 11 September 2001, George Bush urged US citizens to watch Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s film, Kandahar, set in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Why? Cynthia Weber investigates the president’s and the filmmaker’s visions of Afghanistan and Afghan women.
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