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Dr. Haris Durrani @hdernity .bsky.s Profile picture
Dr. Haris Durrani @hdernity .bsky.s
@hdernity
PhD Princeton. JD/BS Columbia. Law, tech, history. Author, Technologies of the Self. Winner, "Worst Article about Apollo 11" -Niall Ferguson
Jun 30, 2023 • 40 tweets • 11 min read
The DUNE 2 trailer. *Livid* abt the erasure.

In the bk, "Long live the fighters!" [lit. martyrs in Arabic] is "Ya hya chouhada" - from Algerian war for independence against France.

Film replaces it w (perhaps) gibberish. The audacity to parade this as the marketing tagline!

🧵 This is a bald erasure not only of Arabic & Islamic references (which I've written abt extensively elsewhere ), but, even more so, of the anti-colonial movements from which Frank Herbert, the author of DUNE, drew.tor.com/2021/10/18/the…
Sep 10, 2020 • 75 tweets • 16 min read
Do you think #Dune is a white savior narrative? Well, you're wrong.

To accept that interpretation is to reinscribe an account of the novel promulgated by adolescent white boys since the first of Frank Herbert's Dune books came out in the 1960s.

A thread. In a 1965 interview FH directly situates Dune as a crit of TE Lawrence/other instances of "western exploitation” of "the avatar power"