Posts Tagged ‘film’

• A Far-Reaching Film Fest

  November 22nd, 2010 In January of this year, philanthropist Leslie Sacks, human rights lawyer Catinca Tabacaru and a team of extraordinary...

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• The Women’s Voices Now Film Festival

  October 11th, 2010 Women’s Voices Now is a non-profit organization that was founded in January 2010 and is based in New...

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• Assimilation Frustration: a Review of AmericanEast

  March 12th, 2009 A longer version of this article appears on altmuslimah, while this version appeared at Racialicious. I finally got...

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• Swimming Against the Current: A Look At Nia Dinata via Dispatches

  January 20th, 2009 CBC radio’s weekly documentary program, Dispatches, recently ran a documentary by Natasha Fatah on Nia Dinata, one of...

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• Slumdog Millionaire: Muslimah As Princess

  January 7th, 2009 Spoiler alert: this post discusses important plot points. This past weekend I finally went to see Slumdog Millionaire....

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• Unexpected sexualities: the sexual limits and transgressions of Muslim women in film

  September 29th, 2008 This was written by Cycads and originally published at her blog. Come into my parlour: A scene from...

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• Unveiled: Hollywood’s Orientalist Fantasy

  September 18th, 2008 Guess what? Hollywood is making a film with a female Muslim protagonist! Yes, that’s right. A female Muslim...

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