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SoundSeen: Audio Slideshow
The Veil as Resistance:
Muslim Women and Social Change in Egypt
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Listen to photojournalist Diana Matar describe her exquisite series of images portraying a new generation of Muslim women in Cairo. These women are reclaiming and redefining the veil as a symbol of political dissent, piety, and fashion in contemporary Egypt.
Unheard Cuts
Arab Identity and British Colonialism
(10:24, RealAudio)
In this clip not included in the final broadcast, listen to Leila Ahmed discuss the creation of Arab identity as a legacy of British colonialism, and the similarities with the perception of Muslim identity in our age.
"The Discourse of the Veil"
Read a fascinating chapter from Leila Ahmed's ground-breaking work, Women and Gender in Islam: Historial Roots of a Modern Debate. Here she explores the long story of westerners' inclination to interpret the veil as a proof of an innate backwardness in Islam. |
Voice on the Radio
Leila Ahmed
Ahmed is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and author of several books, including Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate and A Border Passage.
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An Iraqi woman wears a headscarf, the hijab. (Photo: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad/Getty Images) |
