Posts Tagged ‘headscarf’

• Learning from Las Tapadas of Yesterday

  December 29th, 2010 Western writers have always had a fascination for veiled women. Read any explorers’ diaries on their experiences with...

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• An Interview with Emma Tarlo, Author of Visibly Muslim

  February 24th, 2010 Last week, I reviewed Emma Tarlo’s book Visibly Muslim: Fashion, Politics, Faith. This week, I got the chance...

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• The Headscarf as Cultural Barometer: Emma Tarlo’s Book on Hijab

  February 8th, 2010 In her new book, entitled Visibly Muslim: Fashion, Politics, Faith, Emma Tarlo captures the diversity in the way...

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• Take this Hijab and Love It

  January 13th, 2010 This post was written by Jillian C. York, and originally published in the Winter 2009 issue of Bitch...

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• Questioning the Veil, Questioning the Questioner

  October 12th, 2009 Today we witness postcolonial Orientalism coming to grips with its obsession with the hijab. While the white French...

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• You Say You Want a Revolution (in a Loose Headscarf)

  June 19th, 2009 This was written by Mimi and originally published at threadbared. Because this is a fashion plus politics blog,...

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• OH NOES! Hijab will make you sick!

  February 18th, 2009 The results of a new study on Arab women in Dearborn, Mich., have been released. The study revealed...

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• No Headscarf, No Entry: Golshifteh Farahani’s Dilemma

  October 21st, 2008 MMW‘s Friday Links last week had within it three links about Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani (below), who has...

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