May 2012
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It is no coincidence that so many in the West are affronted by Muslim...
– The dignity of the feminine in Islam: Against Zizek’s Orientalism – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
An interesting piece by Rachel Woodlock
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Postcolonial feminisms have worked tirelessly to highlight the complexities of...
– Politics at the Tip of the Clitoris: Why, in Fact, Do They Hate Us? via Jadaliyya
Sara Mourad begins her piece with a relevant point:
What baffles me most about Mona Eltahawy’sForeign Policy article is that it does not accomplish the task it sets out for itself; it does not, in fact, answer its...
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April 2012
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abudaii:
sharquaouia:
Mona Eltahawy and Leila Ahmed debate on MSNBC.
Watch this, please.
Follow link here.
Read Leila Ahmed’s response to Mona Eltahawy’s article.
Leila Ahmed is all class.
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We ask God to cure us of our hardships, without ever stopping to consider that...
– Yasmin Mogahed (via arabarabarab)
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People were wondering why Azza Elgarf- the female MP from the Muslim Brotherhood...
– Dalia Abd El-Hameed (via kawlture)
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Our own American misogyny (date rape, weak laws against domestic violence, glass...
– Mohja Kahf, “Muslim Women Rule and Other Little-Known Facts” in Fawzia Afzal-Khan (ed), Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out, Moreton-in-Marsh: Arris Books, 2005 (via muslimfeminists)
The only good thing to come out of the ridiculous Foreign Policy “Sex Issue,” outside of some great...
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Dear Mona Eltahawy: You do not represent "Us"
sharquaouia:
It all started this morning when Kawlture suggested we feature the Foreign Policy issue cover on our blog, the Mainstream Media and the Orient. I was on my phone and could not see the cover clearly. At first, I thought it was blackface, but upon zooming in and reading the the featured article title by Mona Eltahawy, my eyes weren’t fooling me. It really was a woman covered in a...
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