#honorcrime

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“The honor crime gives legitimacy and resilience not just to all the mechanisms of regulation, surveillance, and mass mediation intrinsic to modern state power but also to the specific forms and forums of contemporary transnational governance, whether neoliberal economic institutions or humanitarian intervention of the feminist or military sort” ~ Abu-Lughod, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, pg. 135-6.

Does modern (Westernized) statehood end up creating the cultural pattern of the honor crime, out of individualized instances of domestic violence?

Image: http://sites.tufts.edu/anth27h/honor-killing-today/

-EAH

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Deema Qaffaf ~ Forgotten. A Story About Honor Crime.

Forgotten

Alone, she stood in the town square, shivering with fear.

All the people she had known in her life gathered around her like wild beasts.

Only her father and brothers faded away with shame like autumn leaves on a windy day: no one can defend a girl accused of what she had been accused of,  doubt had been enough to condemn her!

Within the blink of an eye, her life was taken away by her  cousin’s sharp knife. He thought to himself “It was very easy; I deserve to take my revenge with pride “.

Until this day, no one asks why she was killed. She was forgotten, as If she had never existed.

By Deema Qaffaf