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Edelman hires 10,000 Black Interns programme director for UK Advisory Board
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US Media Darlings: Arab and Muslim Women Activists, Exceptionalism and the “Rescue Narrative”
Using critical textual analysis based on the postcolonial school of thought, this
essay analyzed a ten-minute segment, called “Women of the Revolution,” on the
ABC news program This Week, anchored at that time by Christiane
Amanpour, for its portrayals of Arab and Muslim women. The analysis showed that
Arab and Muslim women were portrayed positively only when they fit a
“media-darling” trope of Western-educated Arab or Muslim women, or those who
looked and acted similar to Western women, especially if they ascribed to a
Western view of feminism. Those women also were seen as the exception to the
“repressive” culture that characterizes the Arab and Muslim worlds, according to
the Orientalist stereotype. The implications of this analysis indicate that, in
spite of the visibility and progress of many Arab and Muslim women in their
countries and indigenous cultures, they are still framed within old recycled
molds in US mainstream media, even if these seem positive at face value.
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Editor's Column1
After almost sixty years of writing, the bad boy of American literature, the Jewish mischief-maker-the man who introduced us to Kafka's prostitute and Lech Walesa's buddy, Moishe Pipik-has finally decided to retire his pen. Since Roth made this cataclysmic announcement in November 2012,2 both the printed media and the Internet have been abuzz with commentary, speculation, commemoration, and eulogy. Not just causing problems or arousing hostility-and of course he has done plenty of that, with violated liver, scatophilia, green dildos, golden showers, and graveside masturbations-but provoking his readers in a broader sense, making them uncomfortable, and challenging their secure conceptions of reality. \"Because we don't know,\" as Nathan Zuckerman upbraids Dephine Roux in The Human Stain (2000), arguing that \"everyone knows\" is nothing more than a \"cliché and the beginning of the banalization of experience.\" [...]King did say that he was retiring in 2002, but it certainly was not long before book shelves were once again filled with his post-Dark Tower novels. [...]announcing his retirement is actually a very Rothian move.
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