Monthly Archives: April 2011

Reality TV in the Arab Spring…

The days and weeks and now months progress as Aljazeera becomes an old friend to  rely on, with in between visits to the BBC, France24 and occasionally CNN… Watching the revolutionary spirit spread across North Africa and beyond, now to … Continue reading

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‘An Arab Spring for Women’-article in The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/article/160179/arab-spring-women

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Independent Newspaper’s Columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on Dress Codes for Muslim Women

“The burka is wrong but so is banning it” On 4 April 2011, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown wrote this fascinating article, Sixteen reasons why I object to this dangerous cover-up.

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