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Where Uniformity Meets Irony


Posted by Fatin Marini on 16 May 2016 / 0 Comments
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The hijab is in the news again. For whatever reason, people just can’t seem to stop talking about it. This time, a Muslim woman is being denied the right to wear her hijab to The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. After being admitted, the young woman, who has remained unidentified, was called by […]

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“Amira & Sam” and the Hijab


Posted by samya on 09 Mar 2015 / 4 Comments
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The issue of stereotyping Muslims has been controversial throughout Hollywood’s history, and looking at American films and TV in general, we can see that Muslim men (usually represented as dark skinned, bearded, and speaking broken English) have almost invariably placed the “bad people category.” Nick Recktenwald, from The Mic comments on this here: In general, […]

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The Snore Heard ‘Round the World


Posted by nicolejhm on 14 Nov 2013 / 7 Comments
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A few days ago, my Facebook newsfeed was awash with people sharing articles about a new billboard that just went up in Los Angeles. It depicts a male American soldier embracing a woman wearing a niqab. The billboard is for a product called SnoreStop, and it also displays the hashtag #betogether. Um…okay. Despite the buzz, […]

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