Women continue to be underrepresented in physics in the United States. This is while many
Muslim majority (MM) countries have a high representation of women in undergraduate and …

Media depictions of Arabs and Muslims continue to be framed by images of camels, belly
dancers, and dagger-wearing terrorists. But do only Hollywood movies and TV news have …

This study examines US newspaper representation of Muslim-Arab women post 9/11 with an
aim of better understanding how women are portrayed in relation to religion, society, politics …

On 16 December 2012, a 23-year-old woman named Jyoti Singh, who was initially named
Nirbhaya [1] for privacy by the Indian press, was gang-raped on a bus (Times of India 2012a …

Abstract Drawing from Orientalism, Muslim feminist theories and standpoint feminism this
study analyses the articles on Pakistani Muslim women in Time and Newsweek from the …

Anthropological work on Kurdish women has hitherto adopted western stereotypes of power,
representing it as non-existent, as women being deprived of agency in everyday practices …

This article refutes the concept of justice promulgated by Musawah, a Malaysia-based
feminist organization as anti-thetical to the worldview of Islam, and describes it as an effort to …

There is a growing consciousness among Muslim scholars of feminist scholars' tendency to
generalize and make unwarranted assumptions regarding the position of women in the …

Honor rape has oftentimes been severely criticized as extreme violation of human rights by
western human rights advocates. Although the mainstreaming of human rights discourse …

The following paper centres on my unique experience as a white Australian therapist who is
able to sympathise with a Western world view while being immersed in an Islamic world …