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Review – Leila Aboulela’s The Kindness of Enemies


Posted by tasnim on 15 Feb 2016 / 1 Comment
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Leila Aboulela’s The Kindness of Enemies, her fifth novel, explores the complexities of loyalty, religion and of nationalism, and the human yearning for belonging. The story is structured as two parallel narratives, a third person historical narrative set during the 19th century Caucasian war, and a contemporary narrative narrated in first person by Natasha Wilson, […]

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Mothers, Brainwashed Wives and Tomboys: Muslim Women in Armed Conflict


Posted by eren on 27 Jun 2013 / 8 Comments
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In the past few years, images of Muslim women in war settings have become increasingly common, from depictions of Syrian female rebels to all-American girls being compared to Chechnya’s so-called “Black Widows.” Last year, while writing an article on the “Black Widows” I started reading reports about Muslim women’s participation in armed struggles and noticed […]

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“More Islamic than the Islamists”: Claiming the Female Body for a Nation


Posted by eren on 07 May 2012 / 0 Comments
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In the past few weeks, Chechnya has been in international news after the president of the independent republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, made few remarks supporting and justifying honor killings.  After years of war in the region, including the First and Second Chechen wars, Chechnya has undergone a challenging road to reconstruction. Although it seems that Kadyrov’s […]

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