Essays & reportage
10 March 2016
Muslim women are urged to break free of patriarchical domestic lives yet viewed with suspicion if they display signs of their religion in…
Books & arts
19 March 2014
Lila Abu-Lughod set out to discover “why the emerging Western common sense about Muslim women did not capture what I knew from experience and from reading history.”…
Essays & reportage
13 September 2011
Shakira Hussein travels to Pakistan in the aftermath of 11 September 2001
Summer season
30 March 2011
Slavery, foot-binding and duelling have lost their status as “honourable,” but will some other practices prove harder to reverse?