[lbo-talk] Beauty in Islam (was Tariq Ali and the Bolivarian revolutions)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 17 10:24:13 PDT 2007


On Oct 17, 2007, at 12:49 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> What should a feminist, especially a Muslim feminist, do? Don't look
> into the Western and Islamist mirrors. Instead, play with Orientalism
> and Occidentalism in aesthetic elaboration of Islamic civilization,
> inventing a new tradition of beauty in Islam and defamiliarizing it at
> the same time.

Maybe you've got a future as an advice columnist.



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