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The role of women and social class in Pakistan’s “Humsafar” By Hafsa Arain, January 26, 2012 |
No less than seven people told me that I had to watch the television show Humsafar. My Pakistani-American cousins and friends, who have so overlooked the cultural exports of their motherland in the past, seem to have attached themselves to this particular drama. Indeed, it has taken the Urdu-speaking world by storm. Not only are Pakistanis obsessed with it, but also with the help of YouTube, it has gained tremendous popularity in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.  ( ) |
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‘The secret love lives of American Muslim women’ By Madeleine Crum, January 9, 2012 |
The American perception of Muslim women is sadly narrow: We imagine heavily cloistered beauties, submissive to their male counterparts who, we assume, they married because of an agreement between parents rather than love. To expose readers to the true spectrum of Muslim American dating experiences, Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi compiled " Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women," [$15.95, Soft Skull Press] an anthology of romantic relationships, gay and straight, arranged and spontaneous, monogamous and not. ( ) |
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Circumstance: Gender, sexuality and the power of men in “fundamentalist” Iran By Eren Arruna Cervantes, January 9, 2012 |
After reading a couple of reviews (on FilmJabber and Afterellen.com) about Circumstance, a recent film by Maryam Keshavarz, I decided to give the film a shot. Circumstance is a drama set in Iran, where gender and sexuality are heavily controlled by the political regime. The film depicts the story of Atafeh and Shireen, two sixteen-year-old friends, whose friendship extends to the sexual and romantic in an environment of underground adventure in contemporary Iran.
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Tattoo parlors and All-American Muslims By Shazia Kamal, December 28, 2011 |
Many Americans ask, “Why aren’t Muslims speaking up about condemning terrorism?” I feel that this episode addresses this question through the various discussions that take place amongst the cast members. The main question that the episode rests on is how much more do they have to do to show that as third-generation Michiganders they really are All –American? ( ) |
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(Not) All-American Muslim, but that’s okay By Aisha Saad and Salma Khan, December 2, 2011 |
A young football coach and his team playing in front of screaming fans under the Friday night lights; a small-town cop and his high school sweetheart raising their four kids; an entrepreneur scouting out locations for a new business venture. These scenes are playing out across America, and judging from the sensational standards of “ Toddlers and Tiaras” and “ The Real Housewives of Atlanta”, would not make a compelling pitch for a reality television show. ( ) |
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Sisters are doing it for themselves By Ayesha Mattu & Nura Maznavi, November 23, 2011 |
Muslim women are finally on prime time. With last Sunday’s debut of TLC’s All-American Muslim, five Muslim families joined the esteemed company of cat hoarders, toddlers wearing tiaras, and women having babies even though they didn’t know they were pregnant. ( ) |
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TLC presents: “ALL AMERICAN MUSLIM” By Shazia Kamal, November 11, 2011 |
TLC’s new eight-part series, “All-American Muslim,” is set to air this Sunday and follows the daily lives of five American Muslim families in Dearborn, Michigan, the country’s largest Arab-American enclave. I spoke with Shadia Amen and Jeff McDermott, whose road to marriage is featured on the show. Shadia is an Arab-American Muslim and her family would like for Jeff to convert from Catholicism to Islam in order for the union to be valid in their faith. ( ) |
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An interview with Ferial Masry By Shazia Kamal, November 4, 2011 |
When I heard female activists pretty much ran the Arab Spring, I could not help but think that this was not a new phenomenon. Not only have Muslim women been active in the Middle East for generations, but they brought this same legacy with them to the West. However, the mainstream media does not highlight the efforts of these women often. ( ) |
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Body-talk and the limits of Islamic erotica (Part 2: The artist) By Michael Vicente Perez, October 14, 2011 |
Praise for Islamic Erotica is spreading throughout the blogosphere. Whether on liberal news sites or trash-talking hate blogs, the photographic and painted images of veiled U.S. icons and undisclosed Muslim women are circulating rapidly. Although the object of their discussions concern a variety of artists who, together, make up the phenomenon called “Islamic Erotica,” the central figure is Makan Emadi. Intrigued by his work, I visited the artist’s website to read more about his vision of Islamic Erotica. << From the Altmuslimah Archives >> ( ) |
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Body-talk and the limits of Islamic erotica (Part 1: The fans) By Michael Vicente Perez, October 13, 2011 |
In March of 2010, two popular blogs featured articles concerning a body of particular concern these days: the female Muslim body. Although the subject of discussion was “Islamic Erotica,” it was nevertheless the Muslim body that was speaking. Writing in The Daily Beast, for example, Betwa Sharma described how Muslim women’s bodies are talking about resistance. Exploring the prohibition of nudity in Muslim art, Sharma introduced her readers to a few aspiring artists whose representations of naked bodies have been branded as artistic acts of defiance against religious restrictions. << From the AltMuslimah Archives >> ( ) |
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Interview with Angela Peabody, CEO of Global Woman Magazine By Shazia Kamal, September 30, 2011 |
I had a vision for 5 years to create a magazine for women that would cover women’s issues. But I didn’t want a magazine that just covered one type of woman’s issue, or one type of woman. I wanted a magazine that every woman in the world could relate to…any woman from a village in Africa, or Asia, or Latin America, or Europe… I wanted a magazine like that. ( ) |
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American Muslim writers: An interview with G. Willow Wilson By Zaki Hasan, September 16, 2011 |
As a Muslim woman working in comics, author G. Willow Wilson breathes rarified air in a traditionally male-dominated industry. First coming to prominence with the 2007 DC Comics graphic novel Cairo (illustrated by M.K. Perker), a fantasy story informed by the author's own time living in Egypt, she has continued to offer insights in her writing reflective of her unique lived experiences, whether via DC's Superman and Vixen, Mystic for Marvel, or her own 2008-2010 Vertigo series Air. However, Wilson's most profoundly personal work to date has surely been ( ) |
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Modern day Muslimah By Sheeba Arif, August 26, 2011 |
Ahsen Nimet Cebeci is a Turkish-American Princeton University undergraduate and a member of the university’s Varsity Openweight Women’s Crew team. She is also an active member of the Princeton Muslim Student Association. She spoke with AltMuslimah to tell us about some of the social and spiritual challenges she has met on campus as a student, a varsity athlete, and a Muslim. ( ) |
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New meanings of the veil By Abbas Jaffer, August 5, 2011 |
Leila Ahmed’s A Quiet Revolution is both an important and thought-provoking look at the rising visibility of veiling amongst Muslim women. What lies within is a history of the veil and it’s political meanings from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Ahmed consciously confronts some of her own preconceptions about what this phenomenon means, how wearing hijab rose to prominence amongst Muslim women in mid-century Egypt, and the ways in which this movement traveled and developed in the United States. ( ) |
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