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Shattering the stereotypes: Muslim women speak out
Publisher
Olive Branch Press
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
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From the Book
Playing with images, or will the RE(A)EL Muslim woman please stand up, please stand up? / Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Non-Fiction
Unholy alliances: Zionism, U.S. imperialism, and Islamic fundamentalism / Fawzia Afzal-Khan
The burden on U.S. Muslims / Azizah al-Hibri
9/11 and the Afghan-American community / Nadia Ali Maiwandi
Fragments from a journal / Zohra Saed
My earliest memories / Wajma Ahmady
Tapping our strength / Eisa Nefertari Ulen
Am I a Muslim woman? : nationalist reactions and postcolonial transgressions / Minoo Moallem
Terrorist chic / Humera Afridi
A letter to India: in Manto's spirit / Ayesha Jalal
Where is home? : fragmented lives, border crossings, and the politics of exile / Rabab Abdulhadi
Must we always non-intervene? / Afsaneh Najmabadi
Poetry
first writing since / Suheir Hammad
First bombing (for Suheir) / Nathalie Handal
The conflict / Nathalie Handal
Baladna / Nathalie Handal
The lives of rain / Nathalie Handal
I never made it to Café Beirut / Nathalie Handal
Wars / Nathalie Handal
Rachel's Palestinian wars / Nathalie Handal
Detained / Nathale Handal
Billy Bush Sam-ton / Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Expert / Sham-e-Ali al-Jamal
An everday occurrence / Sham-e-Ali al-Jamal
Seeing ourselves / Sham-e-Ali al-Jamal
Paleontology of occupation / Maniza Naqvi
Time of war / Maniza Naqvi
The time of last things / Maniza Naqvi
War is terrorism / Maniza Naqvi
phoenix, from a distance / Mahwash Shoaib
equilibrium of bones (or, imagine us christiane amanpour) / Mahwash Shoaib
Little Mosque poems / Mohja Kahf
Terror / Faryal Khan
Journalism
Epigraph / Nirmen al-Mufty
The adventures of a Muslim woman in Atlanta / column by Nadirah Z. Sabir and Reader Response
Journal entry from Tehran / Anisa Mehdi
Yesterday / Barbara Nimri Aziz
Are you O.K.? / Barbara Nimri Aziz
Religious discourses
Muslim women's rights in the global village: challenges and opportunities / Azizah al-Hibri
Muslim women rule and other little-known facts / Mohja Kahf
Interview with Dawn newspaper of Pakistan regarding the role of religion and status of women in Pakistan, Jan. 2003 / Riffat Hassan
Fiction
Witness / Farah Qidwai
The villa Orient / Maniza Naqvi
Circumference / Humera Afridi
Theater / Humera Afridi
Hanaan's house / Amani Elkassabani
Plays
An Afghan woman / Bina Sharif
Forugh's reflecting pool: the life and work of Forugh Farrokhzad / Maryam Habibian
That Sara Aziz! / Maniza Naqvi
Chocolate in heat: growing up Arab in America / Betty Shamieh
Shattering the stereotypes in a post-9/11 world: a conversation with the playwrights / conducted by Fawzia Afzal-Khan.
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9781566565691
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