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MMW Roundtable: Responding to Randa Jarrar’s “Why I Can’t Stand White Bellydancers”

Posted by azra on 11 Mar 2014 / 82 Comments

Last week, Salon published Randa Jarrar’s “Why I Can’t Stand White Bellydancers” as part of their “feminists of color” series curated by Roxane Gay. The response to her post has been overwhelming, including responses from dudes at the Washington Post and The Atlantic to G. Willow Wilson’s response at her blog. We’ve been exchanging emails […]

Cultural Cartography: Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home

Posted by melinda on 04 Oct 2010 / 0 Comments

A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar is a book that does not fall into a category easily. A Map of Home provides the vivid portrait of a girl, who is Muslim, who is Palestinian and Egyptian and Greek and from Kuwait and born in America, who fulfills her parents’ expectations and dashes them fiercely. […]