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... response. Yet interpreting the reactions to these two cases together reveals much about the existence of racism and Islamophobia in contemporary Germany. In this article I juxtapose the public discussions of these two cases to consider the potential for a critique of headscarf discourse. I suggest...

...Maria Stehle Since the 1990s, the headscarf has played a powerful role in negotiating questions of national and cultural belonging, gender identity, and definitions of urban space in Germany. This essay examines examples of veiling depicted in popular culture and theorizes the relationship between...

...Ayşe Lucie Batur The Islamic headscarf became an issue of controversy in Western European countries beginning in the late 1980s. This controversy increasingly began to include diverse issues such as the integration of Muslim immigrants into their host countries, the politicization of Islam...

...Berna Turam; Monica M. Ringer In both media accounts and scholarship, contemporary Turkey draws much attention as a hotbed of contestation between Islamists and secularists. Indeed, the ban of the popularly elected Islamist Welfare Party and of the headscarf in universities in 1998 reinforced...

... exclusive than the is referred to simply as the headscarf (basörtüsü¸  ), modern-day Turkish university system. not differentiating it from the more traditional...

...- the covers for women are the çarsaf¸ , headscarf, mentalist Islam” are not tolerant toward those turban, and yeldirme. The çarsaf¸ , similar to the they consider adherents of this form of Islam. chador in Iran, is a cloak made up of black light However, most Turks as Muslims display loyalty cloth...

... secular and become an object of state power. To ated by reference to the ban on the headscarf in East be able to take religion under its control and public institutions. The main problem with this Middle to separate it from the secular domains of law, claim is its silence about...

... in the story “al- bayt by visiting their shrines, praising their vir- Hijab” (“The Headscarf one of five stories tues, cherishing their memories, and cursing in a Lebanese hardback for girls. In the story, their enemies...

... is that the   This colorful innovation in Indonesia is a loose wearer of the veil will also take up other styles but fitted headscarf and body covering called to add to her own style, and so there is a hyper- Fashion...

... surrounding the Muslim headscarf. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Alternative Narratives of the Veil in Contemporary Art Valerie Behiery onscious...

.... tural, or historic marker distinguishes the cin- In The Circle, Mina’s declaration and re- ematic urban center through which Tadai wan- moval of her headscarf draws our attention to ders. Sadr Ameli depicts the city as a disjointed...

... violence, and honor killings of Turkish and Muslim women, as in “Allah’s rechtlose Töchter” (“Allah’s Daughters without Rights”; November “Das Prinzip Kopftuch: Muslime in Deutschland” (“The Headscarf Principle: Muslim Women in Germany...

.... © 2012 by Duke University Press .guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/12/palestinian- sex- scandal 2. See “Female Lawyers in Gaza Ordered to Wear Headscarf,” Inde- - rafiq- husseini. pendent (London), 26 July 2009, www.independent.co.uk/news...

... 2012 by Duke University Press    The reaction to the translated message, whether the latter is intentionally transmitted at all, is also of importance. Beverly M. Weber’s article “Hijab Martyrdom, Headscarf Debates...

...). 8. Christine Delphy, “Gender, Race, and Racism: The Ban of the Islamic Headscarf in France,” in Trans- national Migration and the Politics of Identity...

... to Mohammed Fahmi, the Hosni controversy re- that the hijab controversy is more oil poured vealed one thing, that on the top level, a strong 66. Gihan Shahine, “A Witch-Hunt for Our Times?” 69. See Nelly Youssef, “The Headscarf Debate...

... Buran, on the other 406 mental, and emotional problems. His comics ad- hand, is a professional woman who wears pant- dress these young people with handicaps in an suits and a headscarf. This attire is quite com- attempt to bring them into the fold...

... and, finally, turns against them, for the sake of their own survival? Yara arrived in Leros in the summer of 2016. Since she was a woman traveling on her own and not wearing the Muslim headscarf, the authorities of the hot spot in Lepida transferred her to the PIKPA (Patriotic Foundation for Social...

... rec- ernment offices where the women staged their ognized his mother in the family images and protests. Using a diaper as a headscarf, each concluded that photographs revealed only mother carried an enlarged photograph of her fragments...

... on the bell, all the cular living room. Mahin jokingly remarked, while feeling the cold, chilling air permeate my “Ma digeh fagad khanedar ya shohar dar nis- headscarf and thin black overcoat. Eventually, tim, alan dana-­dar ham shodim” (We...