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Jellyfish Fantasies: The Creature with the Black Niqab Fetish


Posted by woodturtle on 09 Oct 2012 / 0 Comments
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Like a horrific scene from a 1960s monster movie: unbeknownst to scientists on a fossil-hunting expedition along the mist-shrouded Arabian Gulf, a prehistoric creature of gargantuan proportions slowly emerges from the water to the piercing screams of… oh no, wait. It’s not the Creature from the Black Lagoon, or even the Loch Ness monster — it’s just a woman in niqab taking […]

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Responsibility as Representatives: A Need for Honest Reflection


Posted by sharrae on 01 May 2012 / 1 Comment
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In our roundtable on the Foreign Policy “sex issue” I spoke about the responsibility one has when representing, speaking or acting on behalf of one’s own community.   Among other reactions to that issue, Mona Eltahawy’s article garnered various responses from Arab women, expressing their disapproval of Eltahawy’s claim to speak on behalf of Arab women. […]

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From Images of Piety to the Arab Spring and Anonymous Women in Burkas


Posted by eren on 27 Mar 2012 / 0 Comments
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The World Press Photo contest is a competition where the best professional photographers have a chance to showcase their work. The contest focuses on photojournalism and features photographers from all over the world. Last year the controversial photo of Bibi Aisha, taken by Jodi Bieber and featured in Time Magazine (which MMW covered here), won […]

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