I, Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist

Computer Animation Nadia

The main goal of computer animation is to synthesize the desired motion effect which is a mixing of natural phenomena, perception and imagination. The animator designs the object's dynamic behavior with his mental representation of causality. He/she imagines how it moves, gets out of shape or reacts when it is pushed, pressed, pulled, or twisted. So, the animation system has to provide the user...

1 COMPUTER ANIMATION Nadia

Most of the phenomena which may be represented on the screen of a workstation are typically time-dependent. The techniques of computer graphics allow the construction of 3D graphical objects using geometric modeling techniques. Moreover, in a 3D space, scenes are viewed using virtual cameras and they may be lit by synthetic light sources. In order to visualize these phenomena at any given time,...

Nadia Behizadeh Sociocultural Theory

Islam and Modernity: A Study of John Updike's Terrorist (2006)

The images of Muslims in media, literature and politics have been mostly black and white portrayals of a people alien to modernity, technology, civilization and progress. Since the end of the Cold War and the onset of deadly terrorist attacks in different areas of the world, especially in the United States, these representations show a palpable difference: Muslims are predominantly represented ...

The terrorist mind: I. A psychological and political analysis.

Part I of this two-part article describes the major forms of domestic and foreign terrorism, the motivations of the perpetrators, and the psychological, social, and political forces that contribute to this most particular expression of violence. The article addresses the question of whether all terrorists are sick or evil and considers the possibility that some forms of terrorism, however odiou...