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• State of the (Superhero) Nation: Faiza Hussein in British Comics

  August 19th, 2010 Faiza Hussain is a British Muslim super heroine of Pakistani descent, introduced in the 2008-2009 comic series, Captain...

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• Homeland Insecurities: Nel Hedayat and Afghanistan

  April 5th, 2010 The BBC documentary Women, Weddings, War and Me follows 21-year-old British Afghan Nel Hedayat (pictured below) as she...

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• The Green Scare: Muslim Immigrants as Britain’s Welfare Queens

  March 16th, 2010 British tabloids are often accused of offering hysterical coverage of major and inconsequential events alike.* The Daily Mail...

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• Portrait of The Grey Lady: Aafia Siddiqui’s Construction in the Media

  February 23rd, 2010 Following a long trial, this month Aafia Siddiqui was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon and attempted...

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• Driving Me Crazy: The BBC’s Muslim Driving School

  January 27th, 2010 The BBC is airing a six-episode television series, called Muslim Driving School, about Muslim women who are learning...

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• Naked Ambition: Airport Body Scanners Only Offensive to Muslim Women?

  January 19th, 2010 Earlier this month, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a gradual introduction of body scanners into U.K....

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• Making an Egg-xample of Baroness Warsi

  December 9th, 2009 The U.K.’s Conservative Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion Baroness Sayeeda Warsi was pelted with eggs last week while...

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• Don’t Ask Why: the BNP on Question Time

  October 29th, 2009 Following the election of two British National Party (BNP) MEPs in the 2009 European elections this summer, a...

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