| Description |
xi, 338 pages ; 23 cm |
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Muslims Women Americans lcdgt |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-331). |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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, Muslim women speak for themselves, revealing a complexity of experience and thought that escapes most Western portrayals. Islam is, as editor Fawzia Afzal-Khan puts it, only "one spoke in the wheel of our lives." In Shattering the Stereotypes, essays by such writers as Ayesha Jalal, the Pakistani-American historian and MacArthur fellow, poems by award-winning poets including Suheir Hammad and Nathalie Handal, Journalism from writers such as Barbara Nimri Aziz, and a selection of short fiction and plays that are not just ethnically but attitudinally diverse, together make a more rounded portrait of what it is to be a Muslim woman in the 21st century. |
| Subject |
Muslim women.
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Muslim women -- United States.
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- United States.
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Muslim women in literature.
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Women in Islam.
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Muslim women. (OCoLC)fst01030996
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Muslim women in literature. (OCoLC)fst01031019
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) (OCoLC)fst01431521
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Women in Islam. (OCoLC)fst01177797
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Art. (OCoLC)fst01423702
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst01921716
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Essays.
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Poetry.
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Autobiographies.
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Drama.
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Literature.
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Art.
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| Added Author |
Afzal-Khan, Fawzia, 1958- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Shattering the stereotypes. Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2005 (OCoLC)666165775 |
| ISBN |
1566565693 (pbk.) |
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9781566565691 (pbk.) |
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