Muslim women in war and crisis: representation and reality

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Note from the Editor: Transliteration and Key Terms Introduction Faegheh Shirazi Part I: Central and South Asia Indonesia Chapter 1. The Peace Brokers: Women of Aceh and Ambon Sya'afatun Almirzanah India Chapter 2. Nation and Selfhood: Memoirs of Bengali Muslim Women Shamita Basu Afghanistan Chapter 3. From Refugee Camp to Kabul: The Influence of Fundamentalism on Afghanistan's Politics and Women Carol Mann Chapter 4. Gendered Aid Interventions and Afghan Women: Images versus Realities Lina Abirafeh Chechnya Chapter 5. Black Widows in the New York Times: Images of Chechen Women Rebels Sara Struckman Part II: The Middle East and North Africa Iran Chapter 6. The Islamic Republic of Iran and Women's Images: Masters of Exploitation Faegheh Shirazi Iraq Chapter 7. Widows' Doomsday: Women and War in the Poetry of Hassan al-Nassar Abbas Kadhim Chapter 8. Images and Status: Visualizing Iraqi Women Nada Shabout Lebanon Chapter 9. In Search of Identity: Hijab Recollections from West Beirut Nada S. Fuleihan Chapter 10. Leadership of Lebanese Women in the Cedar Revolution Rita Stephan Tunisia and Algeria Chapter 11. Images of Manipulation: Subversion of Women's Rights in the Maghreb Nadia Marzouki Part III: Europe and the United States Former Yugoslavia Chapter 12. Images of Women in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Neighboring Countries, 1992-1995 Zilka Spahic-Siljak Spain Chapter 13. Muslim Women in the Spanish Press: A Subaltern Image Angeles Ramirez Great Britain Chapter 14. The 7/7 London Bombings and British Muslim Women: Media Representations, Mediated Realities Fauzia Ahmad United States Chapter 15. Images of Muslim Women in Post-9/11 America Omar Sacirbey Bibliography List of Contributors Index