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Muslim Women in Amy Waldman’s The Submission


Posted by tasnim on 18 Dec 2012 / 0 Comments
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Amy Waldman’s The Submission is a novel that struggles to tell “a post-9/11 story” with a potentially implausible concept and a cast of characters lined up as representatives of certain types and injected with nuance with varying degrees of success. The title is a play on words, a speculation on ”what would happen if a […]

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Homeland Insecurity: A Study in How We Felt After 9/11


Posted by yusra on 23 Dec 2009 / 0 Comments
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September 11, 2001 was different for everybody. But it’s safe to say that U.S. Muslims bore a significant burden. As soon as it was announced that the hijackers were Arab and Muslim, it seemed we’d inevitably be associated with the hereto-unpronounced “tribe.” After all, wasn’t that how America thought of us anyway? In her book […]

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