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Book Review: Rula Jebreal’s Miral
Miral, a novel written by Rula Jebreal and made into a film by American filmmaker Julian Schnabel, is the story of a young girl’s coming of age–physically, emotionally and politically–in a Jerusalem of the 1980s, which finds itself smothered …
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Maintaining a Narrative
Spearheading the healing of a slowly crippling nation, ABC News has decided to take it upon itself to play the role of facilitator between American Muslims and the generally more acceptable genre of Americans. ABC has broadcasted an assemblage of …
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Restricted Free Agency
I never thought that my body could serve as potentially the next front of the ever-erroneous but still somehow existent ‘clash of civilizations.’ Yet with the way things seem to be going these days, it seems that the bodies of …
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First Arab American to be Miss USA. Billionth Woman to be Exploited.
Okay, so, I usually don’t like writing two similarly themed posts simultaneously because it makes it seem as though I’m going through some sort of written thematic phase. In this case, I swear it’s just a coincidence. I’d been thinking
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Beyond Mini-Skirts and Veils
President Sarkozy’s recent declarations against the burqa have fallen out of the news headlines but his words are still ringing loudly within and outside Western Muslim communities. Opinion pieces and letters continue to flood international and local papers, tugging back …
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Holy Stream of Consciousness, Foucault!
A while back, I had an extremely interesting and thought-provoking conversation with a friend of mine. He was taking a class on Foucault, and brought up his redefining of historical terms, primarily discussing the issue that sex and sexual identity … -
To Shake or Not to Shake?
Visibility has come to take hostage of our understanding of sexuality. I would blame the 1960s Sexual Revolution, but I lack the academic credentials to do so. However, this idea of visibility as the sole expression of sexuality can easily …