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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-12 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of re
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Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups
Veiled Sentiments
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Authors: Lila Abu-Lughod
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-06 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod’s Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 19
Pious Fashion
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Authors: Elizabeth M. Bucar
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Who says you can’t be pious and fashionable? Throughout the Muslim world, women have found creative ways of expressing their personality through the way they
Dramas of Nationhood
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Television is the cultural form that binds together the nation of Egypt. This text analyses Egyptian TV, not only to provide an understanding of the effect of t