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Shabana Mir

Author of Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity, winner of the 2014 Critics’ Choice Award (American Educational Studies Association) and the Outstanding Book Award (National Association for Ethnic Studies), Shabana has taught Anthropology, Research Methods, and Education at Millikin University, Oklahoma State University, Indiana University, Eastern Illinois University, and the International Islamic University. She blogs at Koonj.

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Religion Dispatches
Don’t we in the West laugh at authoritarian states that control women’s clothes and sex lives?
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Religion Dispatches
My husband can run out to the door in his shorts and in what some people refer to tellingly as a “wife-beater” while I must be fully dressed, complete with appropriate underwear; it’s only partially based in religion.
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Religion Dispatches
A young Muslim woman is denied entry to a public pool because of her body-covering swimsuit, a “burqini,” and authorities insist that it has nothing to do with Islam. What, then?
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