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, […]