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Hot or Not but with political figures
A good discussion from the beginning of the year with a very savvy, social-justice-y Pakistani-American friend of mine with better information than I had on the coverage of the Egyptian uprising:
Erin
to Amy, Nabihah
http://jezebel.com/5747762/the-woman-whos-explaining-egypt-to-the-west
I'm interested, any insights?
Nabihah
She's not the figure I follow, or plan on following.
I find her analysis problematic, but mostly towards gender, and more specifically, the various coverings of Muslim women.
She recognizes that the Niqab ban is mostly done out of xenophobic European legislation, but is ok with it because that's what she wanted. I have serious issues with her logic, and she doesn't understand that just because someone doesn't agree with the actions she would take in the name of feminism/being progressive, doesn't make the rest of us backwards fundamentalist idiots co-opting the term feminism (although I'm not saying those people don't also exist). The article below touches on some of the things I dislike about her stance, and the gaps in her reasoning (the burger analogy). She is incapable of understanding or trying to understand where other people are coming from because of her own baggage-laden past with dealing with religion and women, and that, for me, is anti-feminist. In addition to the fact that she is blatantly anti-choice because she assumes all people wear face veils because of some deeply pathologized self hatred for their gender.
http://ikhras.com/2010/07/colonial-feminism-among-house-muslims/
In terms of just finding out what was happening in Egypt, I follow:
Sharif Kouddous http://twitter.com/#!/sharifkouddous
The Alexandrian, someone I kind of know, but left Egypt at the height of government caused violence.
Emails/news from relatives of friends living in Egypt
And www.twitter.com/aslanmedia
and random other blogs, Inanities is the only one I can remember right now (www.inanities.org)
That said, her coverage on Egypt isn't terrible, I get the same insights but from different sources.
Erin
to Amy, Nabihah
http://jezebel.com/5747762/the-woman-whos-explaining-egypt-to-the-west
I'm interested, any insights?
Nabihah
She's not the figure I follow, or plan on following.
I find her analysis problematic, but mostly towards gender, and more specifically, the various coverings of Muslim women.
She recognizes that the Niqab ban is mostly done out of xenophobic European legislation, but is ok with it because that's what she wanted. I have serious issues with her logic, and she doesn't understand that just because someone doesn't agree with the actions she would take in the name of feminism/being progressive, doesn't make the rest of us backwards fundamentalist idiots co-opting the term feminism (although I'm not saying those people don't also exist). The article below touches on some of the things I dislike about her stance, and the gaps in her reasoning (the burger analogy). She is incapable of understanding or trying to understand where other people are coming from because of her own baggage-laden past with dealing with religion and women, and that, for me, is anti-feminist. In addition to the fact that she is blatantly anti-choice because she assumes all people wear face veils because of some deeply pathologized self hatred for their gender.
http://ikhras.com/2010/07/colonial-feminism-among-house-muslims/
In terms of just finding out what was happening in Egypt, I follow:
Sharif Kouddous http://twitter.com/#!/sharifkouddous
The Alexandrian, someone I kind of know, but left Egypt at the height of government caused violence.
Emails/news from relatives of friends living in Egypt
And www.twitter.com/aslanmedia
and random other blogs, Inanities is the only one I can remember right now (www.inanities.org)
That said, her coverage on Egypt isn't terrible, I get the same insights but from different sources.