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Mon, 09/26/2016 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Islamic women and the veil
Joan Bohorfoush, one of the founding members of the Old Mole Variety Hour, produced, together with Dina Dickerson, an award winning radio documentary that presents a wide variety of views Muslim women have about covering the female body. It shows the falsity of common Western ideas of veiled women as passive and unable to speak. Though this documentary was made some twenty years ago, it remains relevant to ongoing controversies in France and elsewhere. Joan died of ovarian cancer in 1997.
Photo Credit: www.mtholyoke.edu
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