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WEEK THIRTEEN

CAN THERE BE AN OVERVIEW?
 

*SOME REALITIES*

*SOME FANTASIES*

*MAPS OF THE PERIOD*

*BASIC MAPS*

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*Harris Khalique, "I am Kashmir," from Dawn, August 2002: on the CU website.

*Saeed Naqvi, "Islam's Many Children," from the Indian Express (c.2002): on the CU website.

*C. M. Naim, "A Hyper-Masculinized Islam?"  from Outlook India, Jan. 16, 2004: on the Outlook website; (also a copy on the CU website for easier printing).

*C. M. Naim, "The Hijab and I,"  from Outlook India, Sept. 2, 2004: on the CU website.

*Mohsin Hamid, "Reinventing Pakistan," Smithsonian Magazine, July 2004: pdf text on the CU website.

*Barry Bearak, "Pakistan Is...," New York Times Magazine, December 7, 2003: on the CU website.

*Somini Sengupta, "Report Shows Muslims Near Bottom of Social Ladder," New York Times, Nov. 29, 2006: on the CU site.

*Kaplan, Robert D., "Waterworld" [about the situation in Bangladesh], Atlantic, Jan./Feb 2008: [site]


*Riffat Hasan, "My struggle to help Muslim women regain their God-given rights,"  from the Dawn Review, Nov. 7 and 14, 2002: on the CU website.

*Hannah Bloch, "One Family Divided: in Pakistan, the clash between extremist and moderate visions of Islam can be deeply personal, as the tale of one clan shows"; Time Magazine 158,13 (Oct. 1, 2001): on the Time site; the personal poetry website of Attiya Dawood: on her own site.

*George Iype, "Behind the Veil," Rediff, Sept. 15, 2004: on the Rediff website.

*Kecia Ali, "Sex and Sexuality: Dealing Effectively with Islamic Double Standards," Muslim Wakeup, April 9, 2004: on the Muslim Wakeup site.
 

 
 
FURTHER RESOURCES:
 

== Women leading prayers, including Amina Wadud's doing so in St. John the Divine, March 2005: [site]

== See Week Twelve for many more suggestions.

 
 

 
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