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Part 1: Female, Muslim, and mutant: Muslim women in comic books By Jehanzeb Dar, August 3, 2009 |
In the male-dominated world of comic books where female characters are depicted with large breasts and skimpy skin-tight clothing, it’s interesting to examine whether or not Dust, a Muslim female member of Marvel Comic's X-Men since 2002, and other Muslim super-heroines, escape the sexual objectification and sexism that women often suffer in comic books.  ( ) |
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The witness of Soraya M. By Jennifer S. Bryson, July 10, 2009 |
Respecting Muslims means recognizing, on a foundation of human dignity, the humanity—and thus also the diversity—among those who are followers of Islam. It does not mean agreeing with every single one of them on every issue, which would mean simultaneously accepting contradictions. The recently released film The Stoning of Soraya M. is a case in point. ( ) |
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To read is to travel: The rise of the Muslim woman’s memoir By Tasnim Qutait, July 4, 2009 |
Muslim women's memoirs often deal with what it means to be pulled between the polar forces of East and West, and whether it is possible to find balance in the midst of that cultural intersection. Complicating this is a delicate balance between challenging the Western representations of Muslim women and avoiding painting an overly romantic picture of the East. ( ) |
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A disturbing look into a killer’s psyche By Asma T. Uddin, June 24, 2009 |
As Ayse Onal's intensely disturbing book Honour Killing: Stories of Men Who Killed shows, honor killings are not merely a feminist issue. They reflect a larger problem with human social values, where men and women collude to defend a family’s honor. And through her interviews, Onal finds that the killer is often just as much a victim as the female he killed. ( ) |
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Questioning authority questionably By Zehra Rizavi, June 15, 2009 |
Asra Nomani's new documentary, The Mosque in Morgantown - airing tonight on PBS - exemplifies the great American and Islamic tradition of questioning authority. But although Nomani is certainly one such challenger, Nomani seems to undercut her own objective and isolate herself as an outlier in the community by imposing her approach on others who share her views. ( ) |
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“Without balance, we get a very skewed picture” By Abbas Jaffer, June 5, 2009 |
Paula Lerner has been reaching out to the women of Afghanistan ever since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2002. As a photographer and activist, she has seen the unique challenges and triumphs of women's rights activists there. I asked her about her involvement in Afghan women's development, as well as her views on the recent Sitara Achakzai murder and the dangers Afghan women face when advocating for broader rights.
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A response to “A warrior and a woman” By Kamran Pasha, May 31, 2009 |
Recently, AltMuslimah reviewed my novel Mother of the Believers, a book that follows the birth of Islam from the perspective of Aisha (RA), the wife of Prophet Muhammad (SAWS). I would like to thank the reviewer, Uzma Mariam Ahmed, for taking the time to read my book and for writing a very gracious and positive review. And I would also like to take a moment to comment on the points that Ms. Ahmed raises as small problems for her that detracted from her overall warm response to the book. ( ) |
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Mecca, AD 613 By Kamran Pasha, May 18, 2009 |
Author and screenwriter Kamran Pasha shares with us an excerpt from his new novel, Mother of the Believers: A Novel of the Birth of Islam, published last month by Washington Square Press. The novel centers around the life of Aisha, the Prophet Muhammed's youngest wife. ( ) |
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A warrior and a woman By Uzma Mariam Ahmed, May 16, 2009 |
There is much to recommend about Kamran Pasha's powerfully and sensitively written new novel Mother of the Believers, where Pasha proves his mettle as a writer representing the voice of a fiery and controversial female protagonist who lived fourteen hundred years ago. ( ) |
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“We’re all working for a more well-informed citizenry” By Abbas Jaffer, May 8, 2009 |
Dalia Mogahed, Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, helped oversee the largest surveys of the Muslim world, co-authoring Who Speaks for Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think in the process. Now, Barack Obama has tapped her to join his Faith Advisory Council. Here, we speak to Mogahed about her new position of influence. ( ) |
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Body parts and marriage eligibility By Nafisa Haji, May 6, 2009 |
In this excerpt from her new novel The Writing on My Forehead, author Nafisa Haji describes an incident in the protagonist's youth that lays bare the priorities set down by tradition, where the threat of serious injury is not abhorred for injury's sake, but for prospects of a future marriage. ( ) |
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Storytelling: The allure and the danger By Nafisa Haji, May 4, 2009 |
Author Nafisa Haji has a story to tell. But it's a story within a story - the journey she took while she was writing her first novel The Writing on My Forehead - in which she learned about her own identity as she was conveying, through fiction, the perceptions she had of herself. ( ) |
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Love of God, husband, and self By Asma T. Uddin, April 20, 2009 |
Like Divine Love, love for your spouse requires some extent of extinguishment of your “self”. Indeed, the very search for a husband teaches Shelina Zahra Janmohamed in her new book, Love in a Headscarf, her smallness in the larger landscape of the world. Love - with a lower-case “l” - happens when you just know that your partner is the person who completes you. ( ) |
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“Life is on hold until you get married” By Zahed Amanullah, April 12, 2009 |
Author Shelina Zahra Janmohamed sits down with us to discuss the issues brought up in her new book Love in a Headscarf, which documents Janmohamed's search for a partner in a landscaped blurred by culture clashes, mixed identities, and double standards. ( ) |
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Losing my religion By Fatemeh Fakhraie, March 8, 2009 |
Although the film American East tries too hard to impress upon viewers the plight of Muslims and Middle Eastern immigrants in the U.S., the aim of the film and its director, Hesham Izzawy, remains a noble one, highlighting issues and problems that Middle Eastern Americans and Muslim Americans continue to face ( ) |
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