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Arab women
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Showing posts with label
Arab women
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Monday, 13 February 2017
Translating Love’s Confusion: Hollywood and Misreading Rumi
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The 2010 Hollywood celebrity fest chick-flick Valentine’s Day opens with Reed Bennett, a florist played by Ashton Kutscher, proposing marr...
Monday, 30 May 2016
Of Saints and Matchmakers
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As I was growing up, Islam’s benevolent female saints existed in my imagination as otherworldly matchmakers. Common features of my fami...
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Friday, 10 June 2011
Let’s keep the spotlight on Egypt’s sexual harassment crisis
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The insidious prevalence of sexual harassment in Egypt found itself at the centre of a very public, global discussion this year, and I could...
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Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Facing the veil
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The debate over niqab currently ensuing as France enforces a ban on face veils somewhat bewilders me, mainly because I live in Dubai, a city...
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Friday, 8 April 2011
Matrimonial penalty box
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There is a scene in the movie Bridget Jones’s Diary where the single Bridget is attending a couples dinner party at the home of her only mar...
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Sunday, 6 March 2011
Revolution in perception: Egypt's women defy labels, demand rights
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"Leave! Leave! Coward" (Carolyn Cole/LA Times) Images of Egyptian women, many donning the Islamic headscarf known as ‘hijab’,...
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