Tag Archives: orientalism

Essentialization and Erasure in the Occupation of Palestine

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Thomas Mackell

Since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with the increasing spread of colonialism and the fall of the Ottoman empire, imperial world powers have essentialized the practitioners of the religion of Islam to be constitutive of a unified race. As with … Continue reading →

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Towards Light and Hands: Visual Grammars of Shirin Neshat and Saba Taj

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Edil Hassan

In Memoir as Iranian Exile Cultural Production, cultural anthropologist Amy Malek writes that the cultural production of exile makes possible new codes, inscriptions, and identities that can uniquely exist outside of hegemonic powers (Malek 356). Uniquely too is the transformative … Continue reading →

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Tackling Muslim Fashion Within a Secular State

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Carolynn van Arsdale

The typical American student, let’s call him Ryan, who might pay attention in his Social Studies class, would probably define Secularism as, ‘the separation of church and state.’ However, Secularism is not simply the act of separating two spheres, which … Continue reading →

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