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Shabani (left) on location for her last film, “The Gift.” (Photo by Emily Porter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When you can\u2019t speak, sing.<\/p>\n

In the simplest terms, this philosophy inspires Albulena Shabani. But the research she\u2019s begun as a new Fulbright-mtvU fellow is in no way simple: gender, sexuality, how women heal the wounds of war through music and voice.<\/p>\n

More than a decade after the Kosovo War, Shabani (\u201910 BA English) says the silence around sexual violence against women in wartime remains largely, dangerously intact.<\/p>\n

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Albulena Shabani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIn Kosovo, rape was used as a weapon of war to emasculate Muslim men who could not defend mothers, wives, sisters, daughters. How do you talk about that?,\u201d Shabani asks. \u201cMost people don\u2019t. That\u2019s why music can be such a powerful space for healing and creating mutual understanding. Who needs to talk when you can sing?\u201d<\/p>\n

Shabani, whose work is affiliated with the University of Prishtina, will begin crafting an open mic series with a women\u2019s choir, Lira, when she arrives in Kosovo this week. The Fulbright-mtvU fellowship funds a select handful of research projects yearly that explore the power of music as a global force for mutual understanding.<\/p>\n

\u201cArt helped me find my voice,\u201d says Shabani. \u201cI really had to fight for the freedom to be an artist, though. It was so taboo for a young lady to be creative outside of traditional spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because \u2013 before she represented Milwaukee in the 2010 Women of the World poetry slam; studied English, film, political science and women in Islam at 51ÁÔÆæ; and directed award-winning short films \u2013 Shabani had to manage her own cultural transitions and expectations.<\/p>\n

She moved from Macedonia to Wisconsin at age 12. \u201cAs first-generation immigrants, times were tough and my family struggled a lot with poverty and culture shock. We moved lots.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m grateful my family has done so well in Wisconsin.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Shabani (left) with her fellow Fulbright-mtvU fellows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arriving at 51ÁÔÆæ via Tomahawk High, Shabani launched into academics, art and activism, helping organize events that brought Saul Williams and Amiri Baraka to campus. She studied film, film theory, Islam and feminism, writing and critical thinking, political science and more. \u201cMy parents didn\u2019t have an opportunity to even go to high school, so I\u2019m grateful to have had guidance from my community here,\u201d Shabani now says, naming several 51ÁÔÆæ faculty who inspired her academic and artistic interests.*<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cNow I want to help Lira create a space where more women can share their voices. My job is to document this process and offer another venue for their voices to be heard through film.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shabani is in Kosovo through June 2013.<\/p>\n

Read her blog at http:\/\/fulbright.mtvu.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch her films at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/albulenaearth?feature=watch<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>* Shabani says: \u201cMy passion for film and film theory started in a course I took with Portia Cobb, then Gilberto Blasini and Tami Williams. Kristie Hamilton, Alice Gillam, Lane Hall, and Jane Gallop helped me grow as a writer, artist, and critical thinker.\u00a0Lane Hall has been a great mentor for me.\u00a0Natasha Borges Sugiyama was my favorite Political Science Professor.\u00a0She\u2019s the reason I became passionate about women\u2019s issues in a global context. I recently had the opportunity to share with Ellen Amster from the History Department here how important her influence was. I took a class with her on Women and Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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