Report: Executions Increased in 2011 due to Arab Spring | Rights & Liberties. New Texts Out Now: Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama Rao, Women's Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent. Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama Rao, editors, Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent. Special issue of SOCIALDIFFERENCE-ONLINE (December 2011).
[SOCIALDIFFERENCE-ONLINE is a publication of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference at Columbia University, an advanced study center that promotes innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the role of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in global dynamics of power and inequality.] Jadaliyya (J): What made you organize the workshop that led to this special issue? Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama Rao (LA-L and AR): The workshop grew out of a project called “Who’s Afraid of Sharia?” That we have both been involved with over the past few years through Columbia’s Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference. The first workshop in the series, held three years ago, was on “Gender, Rights, and the Practices of Law.” J: What particular topics, issues, and literatures does this publication address? A. Special | Native informers and the making of the American empire.
Critical Muslims. Questia - The Online Library of Books and Journals. Hammonda. A Non-Arab Arab / عربي غير عربي. Notes from Behind the Blockade | Life, politics and nonviolent resistance inside the Gaza Strip. Writing - Frederick Deknatel. Frederick Deknatel.