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There is Baraka in Receiving the Gift: On Eating Disorders and Choosing Not to Fast


Posted by Guest Contributor on 16 Jul 2015 / 1 Comment
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Editor’s note: The writer of this piece wishes to remain anonymous.  This piece is a follow-up to one published last year, and contains discussions of disordered eating.  A few months ago, I was having a conversation with a friend about how hard Ramadan was for me last year. “You know,” she said cautiously, “the exemption […]

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Ramadan Repost: When Fasting Is Not For God


Posted by Guest Contributor on 22 Jun 2015 / 0 Comments
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Editor’s note: When we first published this post during Ramadan last year, we received a huge number of responses from people telling us how much the themes of the post resonated with them.  We are planning to publish a follow-up post from the same writer later this month, but for now we wanted to share […]

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Drastic Plastic: emel Focuses on Women and Body Image


Posted by safiyyah on 09 Mar 2010 / 0 Comments
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Very seldom does Muslim media produce quality critical analysis of issues facing Muslim women. But emel magazine published a series of articles doing just that to tie in with International Women’s Day, They are, thankfully, not the run-of-the-mill articles about “why hijab” or “how to be the perfect (insert womanly role here)” that a lot of […]

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The Astonishing Case of the Shrinking Muslim Woman


Posted by alicia on 14 May 2009 / 0 Comments
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It’s become common belief that Muslim women, particularly those wear the hijab, are liberated from the media-driven standards of beauty that values the thin and the willowy. But it’s a belief that couches on the idea that head-coverings and modest clothes provide little incentive for showing off a great looking body in public. In other […]

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