Posts Tagged ‘Syria’

• The Media’s Chickens Come Home to Roost with the Amina Hoax

  June 20th, 2011 This was written by B. Full disclosure: Last month I wrote a piece for MMW about the new...

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• Updates: Amina Abdullah and Eman al-Obeidi

  June 10th, 2011 Two important updates on stories that we have covered over the past couple months! First, Sara Yasin wrote recently...

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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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• Book review: The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie – Intimacy and Design by Malu Halasa and Rana Salam

  January 6th, 2009 This was written by Cycads and originally published at her blog. Syria’s unlikely notoriety for racy underwear collides...

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• Salamu Alaikum. I’ll take the beaded nipple tassels please.

  December 10th, 2008 The authors ask why a society known for sheltering women, would design and sell the kinkiest styles of...

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