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	<title>Muslimah Media Watch &#187; Art/Theater</title>
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	<description>Looking at Muslim women in the media and pop culture</description>
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		<title>Zarina Hashmi: Mapping Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tasnim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art/Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zarina Hashmi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Friedman has described the homonym roots/routes as &#8220;two sides of the same coin: roots, signifying identity based on stable cores and continuities; routes, suggesting identity based on travel, change and disruption.&#8221; I have always visualized veteran artist Zarina Hashmi&#8217;s home on wheels as embodying this duality. Like much of her work, her piece entitled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Country and a Continent&#8221;: Fatimah Tuggar and the Politics of Montage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tasnim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art/Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fatimah Tuggar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fatimah Tuggar is one of the artists Jiwa has discussed, in his article on Imaging, imagining and representation: Muslim visual artists in NYC. As  Munir Jiwa has pointed out, the past couple of decades have seen &#8220;the larger tropes of Islam/Muslims—terrorism, violence, veiling, patriarchy, the Middle East—become the normative frames and images within and against which Muslim artists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Miriam Cooke&#8217;s &#8220;Muslimwoman&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/01/revisiting-miriam-cookes-muslimwoman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/01/revisiting-miriam-cookes-muslimwoman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tasnim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art/Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture/Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miriam Cooke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslimwoman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=9781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Miriam Cooke has described her use of &#8220;Muslimwoman&#8221; in one word as a reference to embracing and performing a singular gendered and religious identity, a way of reflecting the intertwining of gender and religion and describing this erasure of diversity. In 2008, in her essay on deploying this term, Cooke explained: The neologism Muslimwoman draws [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MMW 2011 Year in Review: Arts and Entertainment</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/12/mmw-2011-year-in-review-arts-and-entertainment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/12/mmw-2011-year-in-review-arts-and-entertainment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art/Theater]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cinema]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Year in review]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=9654</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As 2011 draws to a close, we at MMW are looking back at our year of posts.  For those who missed posts earlier in the year, or for those who want to look back through some of the things we wrote about, we’ll be going through some of those through the rest of this week.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muslim Women In The Eye of the Camera</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/11/muslim-women-in-the-eye-of-the-camera/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/11/muslim-women-in-the-eye-of-the-camera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tasnim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art/Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghan women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=8882</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a short interview in The New Yorker this past September, American photographer Lynsey Addario, who has covered the Middle East and South Asia for over a decade, talks about her experience photographing Muslim women: “The more I photographed Muslim women, the more I was able to metaphorically strip away the burqas and hijabs, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Conscious Orientalism in Craig Thompson&#8217;s Graphic Novel Habibi</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/11/self-conscious-orientalism-in-craig-thompsons-graphic-novel-habibi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/11/self-conscious-orientalism-in-craig-thompsons-graphic-novel-habibi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tasnim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Habibi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orientalism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=8805</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note: A longer version of this post is available on Tasnim&#8217;s personal blog. Craig Thompson’s graphic novel Habibi took 7 years to complete and is close to 700 pages. The result is described on the book’s website as “a parable about our relationship to the natural world, the cultural divide between the first and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Headscarf and the Angry Bitch: A Review of Zehra Fazal&#8217;s Play</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/07/headscarf-and-the-angry-bitch-a-review-of-zehra-fazals-play/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/07/headscarf-and-the-angry-bitch-a-review-of-zehra-fazals-play/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 07:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hollywood Fringe Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stereotypes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://muslimahmediawatch.org/?p=8468</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the opportunity to see Zehra  Fazal preform her musically-inclined comedy show titled “Headscarf and the Angry Bitch” at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.  Her one-woman show centers on a fictional character named Zed Headscarf who tours around mosques, giving lectures in order to educate congregants about Islam through her folk songs. Her “lecture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Khaira Arby, The &#8220;Nightingale of Mali&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/06/khaira-arby-the-nightingale-of-mali/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/06/khaira-arby-the-nightingale-of-mali/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art/Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music/Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haira Arby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khaira Arby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mali]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“My voice is a gift from God.” Khaira Arby in an interview with Steve Hochman for Spinner. Reading through a list of upcoming acts at my local music venue, I came across a woman whose name I hadn’t heard of before—Khaira Arby. Intrigued, I clicked on her act to learn more about her. Singing in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zehra Fazal&#8217;s Shock-n-Schtick</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/04/zehra-afzals-shock-n-schtick/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/04/zehra-afzals-shock-n-schtick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art/Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comedian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hijab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zehra Fazal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://muslimahmediawatch.org/?p=8007</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I clicked on a link forwarded to me, I was pleasantly surprised to see a woman wearing a headscarf with a guitar in hand, an almost rare sight given some socio-communal stigmas associated with music. I was even more intrigued by the subject of the video, “The Ramadan Song”&#8211;a take on Adam Sandler&#8217;s “The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diving for Pearls: Robert Adanto&#8217;s Film</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/03/diving-for-pearls-robert-adantos-film/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/03/diving-for-pearls-robert-adantos-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art/Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cinema]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iranian women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearls on the Ocean Floor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Adanto]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://muslimahmediawatch.org/?p=7816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pearls on the Ocean Floor, directed by Robert Adanto in 2010, profiles female artists who identify with an Iranian background to discuss their work.  The 16 artists explore the fluid confluence of identity, religion, and political expression for Iranian women as they strive to present it in their art.  The film is currently making its [...]]]></description>
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