...Natasha Bakht Abstract Bans or attempts to ban the niqab have traveled global circuits, with disastrous consequences for Muslim women who wear the face veil. These women have evoked a repugnance that insists on erasing them from public spaces. An analysis of niqab bans reveals that: (1...

..., and a legally authorized eviction from political community apparent in such diverse legal projects as the Muslim travel ban in the United States and the banning of full-face veils (see Razack 2008 ; forthcoming ). Muslims have been targeted by white supremacist shooters in Quebec City, Canada and Christchurch...

... down beside the smoking parts. In Pune, when I was a child, We lived on Ganeshkind Road. In the wedding season 10 MERIDIANS 10:2 I often saw a pale horse bearing a bridegroom, His face veiled in flowers. I willed her to sit beside him Clutching the horse's flanks, A bride, sari storm red, Slashed...

... and it is really irritating. But I feel that the veil gives me so much freedom that they cannot see. It gives me complete freedom to deal with people through my thoughts and not through a face or a body. I want people to treat me as a human being and not as an object of beauty or ugliness. You can tell how...

... of the male onlookers, involving body language, eye contact, type of veil, clothing worn underneath the veil and the manner in which the veil itselfis fanned open or closed at strategic moments to lure or to mask, to reveal or to conceal the face, the body, or the clothing underneath. (Naficy 2003, 140...

... at all until the days of Imām Ahmad, and then only by some women of the Imām’s family.” The lithmah is a face-veil (540). 38 The djambia is a curved knife used for self-defense and traditional dances and usually worn at the waist by males over fourteen years of age. 39 Mackintosh-Smith...

.... My engagement with the text is divided into two sections. The first section focuses on experiences pertaining to the female body: menstruation, childbirth, and veiling. The poets speak of how personal choice is denied and political and national significations are assigned to them and appropriated...

... for spreading understanding. Women are to be fully covered, wearing face veils with unadorned skin (no cosmetics are used). (Mccloud 1995, 61) Though this may be the popular representation of the group, it is important to consider the differences between representation and the actual practices and beliefs...

... of the Primitive . Boston : Four Seas . Hugo Leon . 1989 . “ The Black Girl and Some Lesser Quests .” Shaw Offstage: Shaw Review 9 : 161 – 84 . Itayemi Phebean , and Dove-Danquah Mabel . 1975 . The Torn Veil and Other Stories . Ibadan, Nigeria : Evans Brothers . Kroll...

... background and the green of her dress that peeked from underneath the tatters of her red shawl. The caption read: “Haunted eyes tell of an Afghan refugee’s fears.” As her nameless face stared at the reader, this girl from a refugee camp near Peshawar in Pakistan became iconic of the Afghan people’s...

... by the green background and the green of her dress that peeked from underneath the tatters of her red shawl. The caption read: "Haunted eyes tell of an Afghan refugee's fears." As her nameless face stared at the reader, this girl from a refugee camp near Peshawar in Pakistan became iconic of the Afghan...

... against the word feminist.They put on a veil, what I call the postmodern veil:makeup. Alot of consumerism about makeup and earrings and ornaments and plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery is very, very visible here in the United States. Women are very decorated. And this is a veil; when she covers her face...

... her when she kneels down and prostrates in prayer. The same reasoning is advanced by those who insist that women must wear the veil to avoid tempting men with their exposed hair and faces. In the reasoning of those who argue for the seclusion of women and their exclusion from performing various...

...,ransnationalis2m003, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 54-6] ©2003 by WesleyanUniversityPress. Allrights reserved. 54 II Mirror mine you weave my backwards reflections but now the silent image vanishes from the center the songs of our veils mangled in a necklace singular and circular knotting through marriage Here you cut apart from...

... foundation in Canada, she said, she will move to the next place her dawahwork takes her to. When asked whether she had faced 78 MERIDIANS 11:2 many obstacles as a Muslim educator in Canada-particularly considering the strict form of purdah(veiling) she observes-Hashmi explained that Canada...

... are creative. Animals, when faced with disaster, are creative to save their lives. So, creativity is universal; it is related to anything that has [Meridians:feminismr,acet,ransnationalism2006, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 1-21] ©2006 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 1 life In the decades-old debates about women...

... and openness have masked the fact that she is not there for his consumption, that her face is turned toward Africa, toward Haiti. The doudou is a skin she removes, like the fabled soukougnan, to reveal the pain and rage of Creole femininity. In so doing she shares a “covetous solar gaze” with other people...

... an “us” versus “them” mentality. This article analyzes the discourse of empire, a metaphor that has been used time after time to construct a mythical and menacing Other. In contrast, the portrait of Asian women in cinema and television news as traditional, veiled, and inhabiting a separate sphere adds...

...” versus “them” mentality. I analyze the discourse of empire, a metaphor that has been used time after time to construct a mythical and menacing Other. In contrast, the portrait of Asian women in cinema and television news as traditional, veiled, and inhabiting a separate sphere adds to this representation...

... it is rare to see a woman without some form of"veiling," either a burqathat covers her from head to toe, or a head scarf that leaves her face bare. 2 Though television offers a glimpse of beauty salons being opened up again, and women returning to university 138 SUCHITRA SAMANTA and to teaching...