Shattering the stereotypes : Muslim women speak out /

Shattering the stereotypes : Muslim women speak out / edited By Fawzia Afzal-Khan ; foreword by Nawal El Saadawi.

In the wake of September 11th, Muslim women in the West found themselves more marginalized than ever by a panicked discourse that did little to promote a true understanding of Islam or the Islamic world. Here, in this ambitious volume that includes essays, poetry, fiction, memoir, plays, and artwork...

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Other Authors: Afzal-Khan, Fawzia, 1958- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Muslim women.
Muslim women > United States.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) > United States.
Muslim women in literature.
Women in Islam.
Simmons University. > Library. > Gifts. Healer
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Nawal El Saadawi
  • Introduction : Playing with images, or will the RE(A)EL Muslim woman please stand up, please stand up? / Fawzia Afzal-Khan
  • Part 1. 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
  • Part 2. 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
  • War / 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 everyday 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
  • Part 3. 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
  • Part 4. 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
  • Part 5. Fiction
  • Witness / Farah Qidwai
  • The villa Orient / Maniza Naqvi
  • Circumference / Humera Afridi
  • Theater / Humera Afridi
  • Hanaan's house / Amani Elkassabani
  • Part 6. 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
  • Afterword : Shattering the stereotypes in a post-9/11 world : a conversation with the playwrights / conducted by Fawzia Afzal-Khan.

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