Saving Brown Women (2002)
The Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women has long horrified the Western world in its brutality and oppressiveness. While the Western world tries to help these women, these “brown women” are also helping themselves. Saving Brown Women
Ghassan Al-Jaba’i: Prison Literature in Syria After 1980 (2001)
Writing critically about oppressive governments does not necessarily lead to a jail sentence, but it very well might. Yet after prison is another story–literally. Recently, books of prison literature have emerged in the Arab world by ex-convicts who tell the harrowing stories of their lives and the prison experience through fiction and surrealism as a […]
Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature (Routledge, 2001)
This provocative monograph addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible. Published Reviews: China Reading Weekly March 20, 2014 Muslimah Media Watch Jan 11, 2012 worldfeminism.com/percevalislam.htm 2004 renaissance.com.pk/octbore2y2.html Feminist Theory August 2010 11/121 Qalandar, October […]