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Double Move: Rethinking Muslim Feminist Strategies


Posted by tasnim on 01 Apr 2014 / 4 Comments
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I recently read Layal Ftouni’s essay “Rethinking Gender Studies: Towards an Arab Feminist Epistemology” where the author thinks through those long-standing “stark, defined binaries between tradition, as indigenous and repressive of women; and modernity, as Western and progressive.” The essay is included in the book Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field, and it is focused […]

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“Alice in Arabia” Sounds Like a New Drama That’s Going to Tell the Same Mind-Numbing Story


Posted by sarayasin on 20 Mar 2014 / 0 Comments
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Cross-posted from Tumblr. We don’t know much about ABC Family’s new drama, “Alice in Arabia”, but I already have a feeling that it’s going to be pretty terrible. The network, which targets a younger crowd, has ordered three drama pilots, and one of them follows the story of a “rebellious American teenage girl who, after tragedy […]

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