Archive for the ‘Merchandise/Commodities’ Category
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The New Pornographers: Operation Iraqi Freedom?
August 30th, 2010Few people would agree that pornography has hardly been an indicator of freedom or political stability. Some more...
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Ufone Commercials: the Positives and Negatives
June 8th, 2010While wasting time on YouTube, I recently came across a series of Pakistani commercials for the phone service...
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The Ladies in Red: Shepard Fairey’s Propangand-art
April 29th, 2010I must admit, when I first saw my brother and sister walk in with these t-shirts on,...
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Ted Talks About Women’s Bodies at Cultural Battlegrounds
December 29th, 2009TED Talks are short lectures of no longer than 18 minutes, delivered on a variety of subjects by...
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Burqa Shades: Preserving Tradition or Profitting Off of it?
December 14th, 2009This was written by Sara Elghobashy and originally appeared at elan. It seems that everywhere you turn there...
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The Burqa Barbie Brouhaha
December 3rd, 2009A recent decision to auction a “Burqa Barbie” for a Save the Children fundraising campaign (“to educate children...
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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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A New Bang for your Buck: Fake Hymens for Sale
September 29th, 2009Last month, Soad Abdel Rassoul from Radio Netherlands published an Arabic translation for a Chinese advertisement targeting Middle...
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Material Girls: Talking about Gender and Consumerism at ISNA
August 19th, 2009I spent this past weekend at a conference near Toronto, co-hosted by ISNA Canada (the Islamic Society of...
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It's Barbie's World
August 6th, 2009This post was written by Farah Banihali and originally appeared at AltMuslimah and Nuseiba. Last month Melbourne was...

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