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Mariam Durrani

Mariam Durrani, PhD, is a cultural and linguistic anthropologist, and an incoming postdoctoral fellow (2016-2018) at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

Beyond Belief: Election 2016, Politics/LawNovember 18, 2016

Normalization is Control: Telling Stories to Survive

By Mariam Durrani

Respected journalists are no longer holding Trump accountable but have switched to presenting him as a reasonable politician.

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Archive, Culture, Sexuality/GenderMay 12, 2016

Times‘ Cutesy Guide Veils Humanity of Muslim Women

By Mariam Durrani

If you scroll to the bottom of the New York Times‘ ‘World’ page, beneath articles about British…

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(A)theologies, Activism and the Academy, Archive, Culture, Sexuality/Gender, StoriesDecember 26, 2015

Feminist Critics of Wearing Hijab in Solidarity Fall Into Same Old Traps

By Mariam Durrani

Though Wheaton professor Larycia Hawkins was officially reprimanded for claiming that Muslims and Christian worship the same god,…

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Archive, Culture, StoriesDecember 15, 2015

A Portrait of Islamophobia?

By Mariam Durrani

On December 5th the New York Times published an editorial on its front page for the…

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