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Book Review: God Smites and Other Muslim Girl Problems


Posted by Fatin Marini on 01 Mar 2017 / 0 Comments
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When the opportunity arose to review Ishara Deen’s God Smites and Other Muslim Girl Problems, I jumped at the chance. My interest in YA fiction and overall NEED for #ownvoices made the choice an easy one. The book did not disappoint. I finished it in one day. I just couldn’t put it down. The overall […]

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Boy vs. Girl: “Pure” Islam or Purely Sanctimonious?


Posted by sarayasin on 31 Jan 2011 / 0 Comments
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Na’ima B. Robert’s second book, “Boy vs. Girl” is set in a South Asian community in Britain. The two main characters, Farhana and Faraz, are sixteen-year-old twins trying to negotiate their identities as the children of Pakistani immigrants and as Muslims.  Robert attempts to tell the story of struggling with trying to find a sense […]

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More on Muslim Teens in Young Adult Fiction: Bifocal


Posted by Krista Riley on 06 May 2010 / 0 Comments
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In March, MMW ran a guest post by Özlem Sensoy and Elizabeth Marshall about representations of Muslim women and girls in young adult literature (part one, part two, and part three.)  The article focuses on stories, written by non-Muslim Western authors, of Muslim girls living in places like Afghanistan, and the kinds of images that are created through these novels.  In […]

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“Save the Muslim Girl!” Part III


Posted by Guest Contributor on 24 Mar 2010 / 0 Comments
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This was written by Özlem Sensoy and Elizabeth Marshall, and originally appeared in Rethinking Schools Online. Part I & Part II ran earlier this week. Learning a Stereotype Lesson #3: Muslim Girls and Women Want To Be Saved by the West For many in the West, the plight of Afghanistan is framed exclusively within a […]

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“Save the Muslim Girl!” Part II


Posted by Guest Contributor on 23 Mar 2010 / 0 Comments
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This was written by Özlem Sensoy and Elizabeth Marshall, and originally appeared in Rethinking Schools Online. You can read Part I here. Learning a Stereotype Lesson #2: Veiled = Oppressed Gendered violence in Middle Eastern countries, or the threat of it, organizes many of the books’ plots. With few exceptions, the “good” civilized men in […]

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“Save the Muslim Girl!” Part I


Posted by Guest Contributor on 22 Mar 2010 / 0 Comments
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This was written by Özlem Sensoy and Elizabeth Marshall, and originally appeared at Rethinking Schools Online. Does popular young adult fiction about Muslim girls build understanding or reinforce stereotypes? Young adult titles that focus on the lives of Muslim girls in the Middle East, written predominantly by white women, have appeared in increasing numbers since […]

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