MSA correspondant Sarah Camiscoli reports from the realm of We’re So Over Sex and Vaginas theatrical productions. Falling on the Monday after a weekend of a whole lot of Vagina talk, the NYC premiere of the Hijabi Monologues brought in a full house of students and friends intrigued by the irony and progressiveness of a production whose title replaces [...]
Why hijab-wearing Muslim women have a real affinity for hard rock God gave rock’n’roll to you! So US rock band Kiss chanted in the early 90s, a cover of the original song by British group Argent. My relationship with this “divine” gift started early. At 12, I riffled through my brother’s vinyl collection and emerged [...]
Don’t think that Hanan Turk will keep her Hijab on? Well, think again, because she’s not willing to take it off, not even for movie role. She says the Hijab could be turned into something positive in movies. She continues to say that wearing the Hijab for her is something normal, and if a person [...]
Since her 2007 album Dans ma Bulle (Inside My Bubble) debuted at the top of the charts by selling 50K copies in its first week, Diam’s has become the hottest emcee in France. Not the hottest female emcee, but the hottest emcee in general. Diam’s is known as a feminist rebel who spits rhymes about war, racism, poverty, and [...]
THIS year’s Short+Sweet festival will feature 160 well-crafted plays, from the humorous to the controversial, including Rosemary Chance’s exploration of Australian anxieties of women who wear the hijab, Wearing the Veil. Play director Denise Sivasubramaniam has worked on a number of productions and said directingWearing the Veil had been one of her greatest experiences. “The [...]
It is not often that fictional books result in social transformations. Harvard graduate student, writer, and Muslim convert Michael Muhammad Knight did just that with his controversial 2005 book, ‘The Taqwacores’. Set in New York, the book is about a fictional group of Muslims all living together in a house which includes homosexuals, alcoholics, adulterers, [...]
Doctor Qanta Ahmed dared to enter the land of Saudi Arabia. Although trained in the United States, her visa to remain had been denied. From Kennedy airport, she arrived in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. As a Muslin woman, she thought mostly of the privileges her status as a practicing doctor would provide [...]
