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State of the (Superhero) Nation: Faiza Hussein in British Comics


Posted by ayaan on 19 Aug 2010 / 0 Comments
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Faiza Hussain is a British Muslim super heroine of Pakistani descent, introduced in the 2008-2009 comic series, Captain Britain and MI:13. For people who are unfamiliar with the shared universe of Marvel Comics: in 2008, there was a large scale alien invasion in the Marvel universe, and in order to reflect the international nature of […]

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Homeland Insecurities: Nel Hedayat and Afghanistan


Posted by ayaan on 05 Apr 2010 / 0 Comments
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The BBC documentary Women, Weddings, War and Me follows 21-year-old British Afghan Nel Hedayat (pictured below) as she returns to Afghanistan 15 years after she and her family left. The accompanying article was my first exposure to Hedayat’s experience there, and it provides a different perspective than the documentary did. The article came across as […]

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The Green Scare: Muslim Immigrants as Britain’s Welfare Queens


Posted by ayaan on 16 Mar 2010 / 0 Comments
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British tabloids are often accused of offering hysterical coverage of major and inconsequential events alike.* The Daily Mail lives up to this unflattering generalization in its article regarding Essma Marjam, a single mother of six who is receiving housing benefits for a five bedroom house in the London Borough of Westminster. This is one in […]

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Portrait of The Grey Lady: Aafia Siddiqui’s Construction in the Media


Posted by ayaan on 23 Feb 2010 / 0 Comments
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Following a long trial, this month Aafia Siddiqui was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon and attempted murder of U.S. soldiers and FBI agents while being held in custody in Afghanistan in 2008. Known as “Lady al Qaeda,” she was identified in 2004 as the only woman among seven most wanted al Qaeda operatives. […]

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Driving Me Crazy: The BBC’s Muslim Driving School


Posted by ayaan on 27 Jan 2010 / 0 Comments
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The BBC is airing a six-episode television series, called Muslim Driving School, about Muslim women who are learning to drive. The show purports to not only follow these women as they learn, but to provide an insight into their inner lives. Muslim Driving School is billed as being about British Muslim women, but from the […]

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Naked Ambition: Airport Body Scanners Only Offensive to Muslim Women?


Posted by ayaan on 19 Jan 2010 / 0 Comments
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Earlier this month, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a gradual introduction of body scanners into U.K. airports following the failed attack on an American airliner on Christmas Day European nations are split over the necessity of introducing the body scanners. Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom are planning to install the scanners […]

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Making an Egg-xample of Baroness Warsi


Posted by ayaan on 09 Dec 2009 / 0 Comments
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The U.K.’s Conservative Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion Baroness Sayeeda Warsi was pelted with eggs last week while in Luton to give a talk about the war in Afghanistan. Upon attempting to enter into a debate with a group of men heckling her and claiming that “this woman does not represent Islam”, she was talked […]

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Don’t Ask Why: the BNP on Question Time


Posted by ayaan on 29 Oct 2009 / 0 Comments
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Following the election of two British National Party (BNP) MEPs in the 2009 European elections this summer, a representative of the BNP was invited onto one of the BBC’s flagship political debate television programmes on this Thursday (22nd October).

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