Mys Tique

I live in the Middle East. Probably you'll understand where, in reading this Blog. My cultural background is from Western Europe. I'm a New Muslim, in an unlikely place... shht! I'm saying it already...

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In my garden

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Transport technology, Geneva - clean, functioning, excellent color-scheme... (at TPG Coutance)

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The Secret World of Saudi Women

A great photo essay from this week’s Newsweek International.

Photographer Olivia Arthur took on the job of seeing behind the barriers. During three visits lasting a month at a time, Arthur talked, laughed, and lived with Saudi women. She encountered hundreds of women and girls whose lively, outgoing personalities debunked the funereal stereotype of the black abaya. Jeddah Diary, a revealing collection of the pictures Arthur shot inside the kingdom, is available from its London publisher, Fishbar.

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What is the fascination with folks wanting to “unveil” the Arab and/or Muslim woman? Not in the physical sense of removing their veils, but I mean the amount of curiosity that surrounds them is just astounding. And when an outsider gets an “insider’s look,” it’s like a major achievement or something. Then, when it becomes clear that they’re human, it’s turned into a headline. 

Can mainstream media find a new fetish? 

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And note how the “unveiled” women invariably belong to a certain sociopolitical status

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They'll know...

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Yeshayahu Leibovitz about Israels "democracy" -- around 1990

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East and West

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Palestine, these days...

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Borders?

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Modern democracy

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It should have...

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Women of the world. Hana Shalabi is our sister:... 26 months in "administrative detention" without charges or trial.

Released in October 2011 as part of a prisoner exchange deal. Kidnapped by the Israeli Occupation forces again on Feb 17, 2012 and has been on a hunger strike since then!!!

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February 19th, 2012 in Gaza Strip: Children wave a Palestinian flag during a rally calling on Egyptian authorities to end the power crisis, near the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

Photograph: Ali Ali/EPA