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Shabana Mir

Author of Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity, winner of the 2014 Critics’ Choice Award (American Educational Studies Association) and the Outstanding Book Award (National Association for Ethnic Studies), Shabana has taught Anthropology, Research Methods, and Education at Millikin University, Oklahoma State University, Indiana University, Eastern Illinois University, and the International Islamic University. She blogs at Koonj.

Guest Bloggers, Sexuality/GenderJune 16, 2011

Irony of the Iranian Women’s Burqa Ban

By Shabana Mir

Don’t we in the West laugh at authoritarian states that control women’s clothes and sex lives?

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Culture, Sexuality/GenderJanuary 12, 2010

The Harvard Gym Controversy is Not About Religion

By Shabana Mir

My husband can run out to the door in his shorts and in what some people refer to tellingly as a “wife-beater” while I must be fully dressed, complete with appropriate underwear; it’s only partially based in religion.

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Sexuality/GenderAugust 13, 2009

The Deadly Burqini, Or, What Exactly is an “Islamic Swimsuit”?

By Shabana Mir

A young Muslim woman is denied entry to a public pool because of her body-covering swimsuit, a “burqini,” and authorities insist that it has nothing to do with Islam. What, then?

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Culture, Sexuality/GenderAugust 11, 2009

It’s Not Raining Eligible Muslim Men

By Shabana Mir

Given the strictures of Muslim dating, what are all the eligible Muslim women to do in the face of the dearth of eligible Muslim men? Sex? Online dating? Marry outside the faith?

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Politics/LawJuly 14, 2009

Muslims Are Not the Only Group Endangered By Hate

By Shabana Mir

The recent murder in Germany, and the ensuing silence, reveal a shocking level of tolerance for Islamophobia. But hate is seldom focused nor easily sated.

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Culture, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJuly 8, 2009

Martyr of the Hijab: Marwa Sherbini, a Walking Veil?

By Shabana Mir

Why did coverage of the murder of a pregnant Muslim woman merely record the outrage “in the Muslim world”?

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(A)theologies, Science & TechnologyJuly 3, 2009

Whom God Will Protect

By Shabana Mir

Dale and Leilani Neumann, whose daughter Madeline died due to the couple’s belief that illness comes from sin have, despite their trust in Divine intervention, acquired an attorney to protect themselves from the law.

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Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJuly 3, 2009

What are We Going to do About American Women?

By Shabana Mir

American women need help. They are so victimized that they suffer themselves to be treated like objects and toys, desiring no change…

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Sexuality/GenderJuly 3, 2009

17 Reasons Why Women Wear Headscarves

By Shabana Mir

The Muslim headscarf is capable of numerous meanings, many of which are rather less dramatic than outsiders might imagine…

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(A)theologies, Culture, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJuly 2, 2009

Take It Off, Or We’ll Make You: On Sarkozy’s Proposed Burqa Ban

By Shabana Mir

When you step out in clothing that boldly states your womanhood, you are a free woman. You are no longer a slave to old rules and notions. Modernity is inherently free.

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