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..., blurring lines between liberal and Islamic feminism. The article analyzes the use of digital platforms to construct both a hijabi support group and an influencer platform, arguing that this two-pronged project signified hijab as an ethical and performance practice. As a symbol of self-discipline that moved...

...Nadine Sinno Abstract Directed by Saudi Arabian filmmaker Faiza Ambah, Mariam (2015) portrays the struggles of Mariam, a Muslim French teenager who decides to wear the hijab but must contend with her school’s enforcement of a 2004 French law banning religious symbols from public institutions...

.... There is no reference to covering female hair or to the head veil. What is more, the word hijab (screen) in the Qur’an refers to the etiquette of interaction with the Prophet’s wives or covering for women (Surah 33:53). The use of the screen, according to Ali, “was a special feature of honour for the Prophet’s...

... declared that “women should not go to the office naked; they should wear a hijab.” He ordered mandatory hijab for women, which was followed by the cancelation of the family support law, an achievement of leading women activists, including Senator Mehrangiz Manouchehrian. 1 Many women were excluded from...

...Figure 1. Acceptance of the hijab in “We the People” series created by Shepard Fairey for the Amplifier Foundation. theamplifierfoundation.org/wethepeople ...

... style of clothing. Marji’s mother’s act of resistance highlights how the hijab becomes a tool capable of simultaneously communicating political ideologies and constructing individual identity. Satrapi portrays the distinction between fundamentalist and antifundamentalist women, emphasizing the diverse...

... for Muslims in greater Milwaukee. To uncover what community members experience and to discern what can be done to improve reporting, the MMWC recruited participants for a series of focus groups mainly composed of women. These focus groups revealed widespread taunting and harassment of women in hijab...

... actively sought to reimage myself to facilitate communication, through my use of hijab. When I began covering as a US college student, it was a feminist move as much as a religious one and remained so until September 11, 2001. This event dramatically changed US cultural discourses about Islam and Muslims...

... demonstrations. This image represents the paradox of the Islamic Republic. The veil or hijab tradition- ally symbolizes silence and self-concealment in public, yet these women JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol. 4, No. 3 (Fall 2008) © 2008...

... the undesirability of the erotic woman and the desirability of the anerotic woman is sometimes cast as a distinction be- tween sexuality and femininity. In “The Question of Hijab: Suppression or Liberation” by the Institute of Islamic Information and Education, we read, for example, “A woman who...

... as a source of both inspiration and caution. In this light, perhaps her simultaneous defense of face-veiling and rejection of seclusion (confus- ingly, both are referred to as hijab) can fully be understood. Nasif’s posi- tion on face-veiling—as a valid practical and social norm for Egyptian women—has...

... or two like comparing bra burning in the United States to the refusal to wear hijab in Kuwait. Given the religious connotations of hijab (in all its iterations) this seems cavalier. Moreover, Gonzalez says that women’s perceptions of hijab as “a step towards maturity” (86) cannot be fully...

... Space John R. Bowen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. x, 290. ISBN 978-0-691-12506-0. Reviewed by Alexandra Jerome, College of William and Mary Liberté, égalité, fraternité and hijab? Th i iss qquestionuestion i sis t hthee l olocuscus...

... and the body management necessary for modest dress- ing that would previously have come from older relatives and community groups (with “how to” guidance on hijab-wearing a common feature of both blogs and commercial websites such as UK e-retailer hijab.com; see also Tarlo 2009, chap. 7...

... politics: a courageous women-led movement sparked by the death of a young Kurdish Iranian woman, Jina (Mahsa) Amini, under police custody, who was detained for “improper” hijab. The principal chant of the protests, the Kurdish Jin, Jiyan, Azadi , translated as “Woman, Life, Freedom,” signed Jina’s name...

... offers shadow boxes with Western definitions and instances of feminist action throughout the book. This was a bit disturbing because it came most commonly in the form of a throwaway line or two like comparing bra burning in the United States to the refusal to wear hijab in Kuwait. Given...

... revolutionary culture. Finally, it contends that only with the consolidation of Khomeini’s power and the start of the Iran-Iraq War is this figure renamed Zainab and sustained as a central icon of the Islamic Republic. Long before the imposition of hijab, the appearance of women’s bodies existed at the center...

... into prestige as applied to hijab is not new, the complex descriptions of the dynamic of the phenomenon as it occurs in various geographic and political contexts (Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the transnational space of the Internet), as well as the parallels with the lesbian/gay...