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Fashion Designers, How Not to Study Gender, and More on Iran’s Women Ninjas

Posted by Krista Riley on 05 Apr 2012 / 0 Comments

An eclectic round-up of some articles of interest elsewhere on the internet: A Muslim participant on Project Runway Philippines was recently eliminated. MMW reader Sumaya writes that, “Just as quickly as I found out about the first Muslimah to be on Project Runway in the third season of Project Runway Phillipines, sadly I found out […]

Playing on Old Fears: Coverage of Iran’s Female Ninjas

Posted by diana on 22 Feb 2012 / 0 Comments

Amid speculations that Iran has made advances in nuclear technology for the purpose of making nuclear weapons, Iranian women have become inserted into the dicey conversation. Numerous news sources have made it their prerogative to discuss exactly how Iranian women fit into this hypothetically catastrophic situation. Oddly enough, they aren’t plugging the ancient and sad […]