Archive for the ‘Books/Magazines’ Category
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Bérengère Lefranc’s “Un voile, Un certain moi de juin”
March 15th, 2010Un voile, Un certain moi de juin is the story of French artist Bérengère Lefranc’s decision to wear...
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Reading Religion and Canadian Identity: Sheema Khan’s Of Hockey and Hijab
March 11th, 2010Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman, published last October, is a collection of monthly...
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Drastic Plastic: emel Focuses on Women and Body Image
March 9th, 2010Very seldom does Muslim media produce quality critical analysis of issues facing Muslim women. But emel magazine published a...
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An Interview with Emma Tarlo, Author of Visibly Muslim
February 24th, 2010Last week, I reviewed Emma Tarlo’s book Visibly Muslim: Fashion, Politics, Faith. This week, I got the chance...
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Abeer Esber: For Wrong Reasons, Easier for Arab Women to Publish
February 16th, 2010This was written by M. Lynx Qualey and originally appeared at Arabic Literature (In English). After all the kerfuffle...
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A Look at Women in Ali Eteraz’s Children of Dust: Part II
February 10th, 2010Part I of this review ran last week. You can read it here. Why do Muslim women merely...
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The Headscarf as Cultural Barometer: Emma Tarlo’s Book on Hijab
February 8th, 2010In her new book, entitled Visibly Muslim: Fashion, Politics, Faith, Emma Tarlo captures the diversity in the way...
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A Look at Women in Ali Eteraz’s Children of Dust: Part I
February 3rd, 2010Children of Dust, prominent writer Ali Eteraz’s recently published memoir, provides an excellent example of a Pakistani-American Muslim...
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Shortlist for “Arab Booker”: Where are the women?
January 7th, 2010This is a slightly edited version of an article written by Susannah Tarbush. A complete version originally appeared...
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Homeland Insecurity: A Study in How We Felt After 9/11
December 23rd, 2009September 11, 2001 was different for everybody. But it’s safe to say that U.S. Muslims bore a significant...
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