Archive for the ‘Merchandise/Commodities’ Category

• The New Pornographers: Operation Iraqi Freedom?

  August 30th, 2010

  Few 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, 2010

  While 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, 2010

  I 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, 2009

  TED 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, 2009

  This 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, 2009

  A 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, 2009

  If 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, 2009

  Last 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, 2009

  I 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, 2009

  This post was written by Farah Banihali and originally appeared at AltMuslimah and Nuseiba. Last month Melbourne was...

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