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Rejected (Muslim) Princesses: awesomely offbeat women in history


Posted by syahirah on 11 Dec 2014 / 2 Comments
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If you’re our regular reader, you know that mainstream media sorely lacks female characters who have a range of emotions, abilities and ambitions – in other words: real women. Children’s animated films are of no exception. It was only in 2009 that Disney introduced its first Disney princess of colour, black princess Tiana from The Princess […]

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Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story


Posted by tasnim on 08 Oct 2014 / 0 Comments
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A few months ago, I wrote about the “rediscovery” of Noor Inayat Khan, from the 2011 campaign to commemorate her, to the biography, Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu to the planned docu-drama, which at the time I had not yet watched. I have since watched the one-hour film, which is […]

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Rediscovering Noor Inayat Khan and the Good Muslim


Posted by tasnim on 17 Mar 2014 / 0 Comments
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I will confess that I first became aware of Noor Inayat Khan, also known as Madeline, only quite recently, that is, during the campaign in 2011 to commemorate her, before it was discovered that she had already been commemorated. I remember looking up her story at the time and coming across her biography, Spy Princess: […]

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