September 2011
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Interview: Shirin Neshat & Shahzia Sikander | Asia... →
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Shirin Neshat:
“I feel what threads my work to the traditions of Iran or Islam is the notion of poetry. I think that one underlying element in all of my work is that it is very, very poetic, and very metaphoric in its form of language. …
“I applied calligraphy originally to my photography because I knew it would represent sort of a sacred form of Islamic art. In the composition of...
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“I feel that I now know what Jewish women went through before the Nazi roundups...”
– Kenza Drider, a 32-year-old mother of three, was famously bold enough to appear on French television to oppose the law before it came into force. She refuses to take off her niqab – “My husband doesn’t dictate what I do, much less the government” – but she says she now lives in fear of attack. “I...
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“Over the past 25 years, Muslim majorities have elected five women as heads of...”
– Dr. Ali M. Nizamuddin is a ISPU Fellow and an associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois Springfield. (via ffeimo)
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“When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a...”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via heartofabeliever) (via wordsofsolace)
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August 2011
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