Author Archive

• Maya Khan’s Marriage Police

  February 8th, 2012 When your everyday news consists of the purported collapse of your government and a small but unfortunate obsession...

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• Reading Too Much into Veenagate

  January 16th, 2012 Veena Malik is a Pakistani actress with a special flair for controversy. She first made major headlines after...

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• The Faux Phallic Fatwa

  December 27th, 2011 On December 6th, a headline hit Facebook and Twitter feeds that an unnamed Islamic cleric – a Salafi...

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• Selective Shivers in the Islamist Winter

  November 9th, 2011 The election of the so-called ‘moderate Islamist’ party, Ennahda, to the head seat of the government, has put...

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• Zehra Fazal’s Shock-n-Schtick

  April 14th, 2011 When I clicked on a link forwarded to me, I was pleasantly surprised to see a woman wearing...

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• Dictatorships Are No Longer in Vogue

  March 17th, 2011 What does one of the world’s premier fashion and culture magazines have in common with one of the...

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• Der Spiegel Highlights the Poor, Slutty Muslim Girls of Europe

  February 8th, 2011 Apparently, and without much to my own knowledge, I, as the generic Muslim female, have been gettin' the...

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• Book Review: Rula Jebreal’s Miral

  January 20th, 2011 Despite some memorable characters and moments, as well as the (ultimately brief) acknowledgment of Hind Husseini's work and...

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• Self-Congratulatory Feminism, Now in Muslim Flavor!

  December 16th, 2010 In a recent article by heralded Muslim Feminist Mona Eltahawy in the ever-tabloid Toronto Star, asks to be...

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• Lauren Booth Converts to Islam and Insanity Ensues

  November 17th, 2010 Lauren Booth, half sister of Tony Blair's wife Cherie Booth, a human rights activist and a British journalist...

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