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Nomad : from Islam to America : a personal journey through the clash of civilizations
Describes the author's experiences after moving to America to pursue a safer life, from her renewed contact with her family after her father's death to her struggles to embrace new principles in the face of attempts to prohibit her work.
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The Right to Offend? Contested Speech Acts and Critical Democratic Practice
In the wake of the Danish cartoon crisis, Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali defended the right to offend against an allegedly hegemonic, \"multiculturalist\" obligation not to offend that she believed made it impossible to criticize Islam. After critiquing several of Hirsi Ali's interventions-a speech, an op-ed, a spiritual autobiography, and a short film-and after critiquing the obligation not to offend that I trace in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, I argue in this article that judgments on contested expressions such as the cartoons cannot be made from within a narrow framework that simply balances \"negative\" liberties: the freedom from censorship versus the freedom from offense. Instead, such judgments require analysis of the specificity of the speech acts that are being performed, as well as a conception of critical democratic practice.
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Victimization of Muslim Women in Submission
Shortly after Submission, a film critiquing the treatment of Muslim women, aired on Dutch television, a Muslim fundamentalist murdered the film's producer, Theo van Gogh. While the murder brought Islamic extremism worldwide attention, the film itself escaped critical scrutiny. Analyzing the depictions of Muslim women in Submission, this essay discusses the intricacies of Muslim women's struggle. Surrounded by the oppressive discourses of Islam and patriarchy on one hand, and of the \"global sisterhood\" and Orientalism on the other, Muslim women today labor to achieve equality both with Muslim men and Western women.
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Can Women in Interreligious Dialogue Speak? Productions of In/Visibility at the Intersection of Religion, Gender, and Race
Echoing Gayatri Spivak's seminal essay, Gruber asks, Can women in interreligious
dialogue speak? She develops an answer through an analysis of Theo van Gogh and
Ayaan Hirsi Ali's film Submission and Candice Breitz's video
installation Love Story. Both of these works of art raise
questions of representation and agency for marginalized people, and by bringing
these questions into conversation with theoretical reflections about women in
inter-religious dialogue, Gruber charts potential positions of women in the
field of interfaith dialogue. The crucial argument is that what position women
take in this field depends on their access to epistemic privilege, which is
distributed unevenly along gendered, racialized, and religious
differentiations—interreligious dialogue takes place at the intersection of
male, white, and Christian privilege.
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Editor's Note
[...]again given the general prominence of Don Quixote in the field, we did not wish to delay the publication (by at least a year, if not more) of those articles submitted to the journal by scholars working on Cervantes's other works. Through an examination of the archetypal figures of the \"strange woman\" and the \"virtuous woman\" in the Bible and the Qur'an, Larsen argues that the character of Zoraida in the \"Captive's Tale\" is part of a long line of \"strange women\" that connects ancient figures like Tamar and Rahab and Zulayja to such contemporary figures as activist and novelist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Following Larsen's article, we offer five more articles dedicated to Don Quixote: Rachel Schmidt examines definitions of \"ingenio\" within the context of Spain's early modern American adventure; Daniel Lorca plumbs the epistemological depths of Cervantes's literary creation of Sancho Panza; Javier Jiménez Belmonte explores the influence of Don Quixote on the Neapolitan writer Gherardo Marone; John Cull examines the connection between Don Quixote and the work of the early modern humanist, Alexio Venegas; and Verónica Azcue Castillón traces the impact of Don Quixote on the theatrical work of Spanish exiles in the wake of the Spanish Civil War.
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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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Fictions of All-Encompassing Precarity in the Works of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
In the spring of 2014 Brandeis University invited Somali author Ayaan Hirsi Ali to receive an honorary degree at their commencement ceremony. The university chose her to receive the degree because she is a compelling public figure and advocate for women's rights, and people respect and appreciate her work to protect and defend the rights of women and girls throughout the world. However, in early April Brandeis University rescinded Hirsi Ali's invitation to commencement and reversed its decision to offer her an honorary degree. This abrupt change in plans came as the result of student and faculty backlash to the institution's intention to recognize Hirsi Ali and celebrate her work. In its official university statement on what became an international controversy, Brandeis claimed to respect Hirsi Ali's work regarding women's rights, but that said, they cannot overlook certain of her past statements that are inconsistent with Brandeis University's core values.
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Stripping, veiling, and inscribing: Devising the body in the works of Sylvia Plath, Imtiaz Dharker, Shirin Neshat, and Randa Abdel-Fattah
Approaching through the lens of transnational corporeal feminism, this article reflects upon the veiled, inscribed, and stripped bodies as the rhetoric of protest and site of justice negotiation in the works of Sylvia Plath, Imtiaz Dharker, Shirin Neshat and Randa Abdel-Fattah. Undeniably, the root of sexism, racism, homophobia, ableism, and ageism lies in the forceful denial, or attempt to erase the bodily existence, of the marginalised other. Corporeal feminism is about revealing this purposeful denial of “unwanted” bodies and the structural process of terrorising and monstracising those bodies. Above all, it is not enough to kill those bodies or let those bodies die: more importantly, the bodies must be a spectacle of shame, what Jasbir Puar calls \"debilitation\" in her book 'The Right to Maim'. The bodies of the oppressed are the site of fear for the oppressor and hence become the space to prove the oppressor’s superiority of maleness, whiteness, and ableism. This article examines the strategic feminist praxis of embodied epistemology and how the assaulted, shamed, veiled, and erased bodies could be weaponised in feminist consciousness raising.
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Where's the Media Outrage Over Hateful Rhetoric Targeting Muslim Congresswomen?
When it comes to the Middle East, Muslims, more so than other Americans, have to be very careful about what they say, who they associate with, which organizations they support and where they travel. So are the Palestinian- American students slandered on the Internet by the Canary Mission, the US mosques closely monitored by informants and the Muslim Americans disproportionality interrogated by US Customs and Border Protection agents upon returning from travel to the Middle East. The so-called \"sins\" of these Muslim leaders are frequently repeated in both conservative and mainstream news outlets. After Representative Ilhan Omar's February 2019 remark that US support for Israel is \"all about the Benjamins,\" the mainstream media spent days debating if she was an anti-Semite. Omar is simply not an anti-Semite obsessed with attacking Israel. Rather, she is the victim of people obsessed with defaming Islam and supporting Israel.
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Transnational Feminism, Islam, and the Other Woman
The author argues that “the progressive scholar engaging women’s issues in the Muslim world must strive to do three things: historicize feminism, historicize Islam, and highlight the complexities of representation” – and she explains how.
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