Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’

• On Mannequins and Messaging in the New York Times

  February 10th, 2011 This article was written for Muslimah Media Watch by Anny Gaul. Yesterday, The New York Times ran an...

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• The New Pornographers: Operation Iraqi Freedom?

  August 30th, 2010 Few people would agree that pornography has hardly been an indicator of freedom or political stability. Some more...

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• Missionary Rhetoric: A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness

  July 6th, 2010 When Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale, a feminist dystopia set in a world run by a totalitarian...

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• Pimp My Daughter: Iraqi Women and Prostitution

  March 23rd, 2009 I saw the movie Taken with my friend and her husband the other day and walked out of...

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• Rock the Vote: Media Coverage of Women in Iraqi Elections

  February 11th, 2009 Last week’s Iraqi elections received lots of media coverage, but at MMW we were mostly fascinated by women...

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• NPR gives us an Orientalist romance

  October 22nd, 2008 When I started to read a recent NPR story about an Iraqi woman married to an American sergeant,...

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• Bombs, Liberty, and the Muslimah Body

  September 25th, 2008 Yet another cartoon controversy has hit the Muslim world. This time it’s not in the West, but rather...

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• Mother Knows Best: CNN’s interview with an alleged suicide bomber

  August 26th, 2008 Sometimes I wonder why I even browse CNN.com anymore. However, it does tend to make for a good...

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