Veil

Veils: Covering and Conversations

Veils: Covering and Conversations

One of the most confusing experiences I had as a teacher in universities in Southeast Asia was seeing some of my female students change their regular pattern of veiling or…

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Fighting Hislam: Women, Faith and Sexism

Fighting Hislam: Women, Faith and Sexism

Author:           Susan Carland Publisher:     Melbourne University Press, 2017 Reviewer:     Louise Simon Fighting Hislam is, at the beginning, highly engaging. Carland’s description of her internal responses as she…

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Veil

Veil

Title:               Veil Author:           Rafia Zakaria Publisher:     Bloomsbury, 2017 Reviewer:      reviewed by Louise Simon Veil is a short and densely packed book in the ‘Object Lessons’ series,…

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