Archive for the ‘Books/Magazines’ Category
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Pasha’s Perfection: Mother of the Believers
December 8th, 2009During Ramadan, my bedside novel happened to be Mother of the Believers by Kamran Pasha. It’s a work...
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Questioning Marnia Lazreg’s One-Way Correspondence with Muslim Women
December 1st, 2009Reading Marnia Lazreg’s new book Questioning the Veil (Princeton University Press, 2009) was at the same time a...
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One Afghan Woman’s Words: Malalai Joya’s Book Tour
November 18th, 2009Malalai Joya, an Afghan activist for women’s rights (and many other things), was in Toronto tonight on a...
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Marketing Muslim Lifestyles and Rethinking Modesty
November 16th, 2009If a hijab in Pucci-designed print could speak, what would it say? I attended a seminar presented by Professor...
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Your Joke is Not My Joke: Racism and Sexism in Jokes and Satire
September 24th, 2009Have you ever noticed how minorities—and oppressed people in general—lack a sense of humor? Lately, there have been...
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Kathy Zeitoun and Muslim Women as Change Agents
September 23rd, 2009This was written by Jordan Robinson and originally published at AltMuslimah. Much has been written about Abdalrahman Zeitoun...
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Ramadhan Book Club: Our Stories, Our Lives
September 15th, 2009Our Stories, Our Lives is an anthology of a diverse group of women in Bradford, England, offering a...
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Erasing the Dichotomy: Positive Portrayals of Latina Muslims
September 8th, 2009Melinda wrote a while ago about negative media representation of Latina Muslim women. She described a lot of...
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Babes in Toyland: Stratton’s Fantastick Muhajababes
September 3rd, 2009When I first saw the book Muhajababes by Allegra Stratton in a bookshop in Beirut, I was intrigued...
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Mad Magazine: Marie Claire’s Bias Against Muslim Women
September 2nd, 2009This piece was written by Guest Contributor Asma T. Uddin. Asra Nomani’s recent piece in Marie Claire, “My Big...
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