Hijabi Activism (2020)
PUBLICATION: Al Raida Journal Vol. 44, Issue 2, 2020 ARTICLE I was eating a veg dosa at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University cafeteria when a veiled student turned to me. “I like your glasses.” I was surprised, because women students in Indian universities tend to be quite shy, and her chic women’s aviator sunglasses were […]
Murad vs. ISIS (2019)
PUBLICATION: JMEWS 209 ABSTRACT This article analyzes recent Iraqi texts, some authorizing and others condemning rape as a weapon of war. The focus is on Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) perpetrators of sexual violence, their Yazidi victims, and two women’s demands for reparative, restorative justice. Held in sexual slavery between 2014 and 2015, […]
The Syrian Revolution, Art and the End of Ideology (2018)
PUBLICATION: The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East ARTICLE In May 2013, Syrian graphic artist Sana Yazigi launched The Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution. It is still going strong. A trilingual website, it archives intel- lectual and artistic responses to the Syrian revolution that endures since 2011 despite attempts to repress it. In […]