David Johnson

Farideh Goldin

Amr G.E. Sabet

Tammy Gaber

Khaleel Mohammed

Kenza Oumlil

Syed Zahir Idid and Abdurezak A. Hashi 

Benina Gould, Yayah Khisbiyah, and Jeffrey B. Gould 

Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast and Mohammad Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast

Seyed Mohammad Marandi and Zeinab Ghasemi Tari 

Leyli I. Behbahani

Mazen Hashem

The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), established in 1984, is a quarterly, double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. The journal showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world including subjects such as anthropology, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam.

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 29:2

This book focuses on the ways in which North American Muslim women artists "talk back" to dominant discourses about Muslim identity and work to counter mainstream stereotypes and representations. It examines the possibilities of constructing discourses of resistance to domination. Against a backdrop of dominant media representations of oppressed and passive Muslim women, the media interventions of the exceptional women artists whose voices are showcased in this book, demonstrate that Muslim women are diverse and autonomous agents who have, historically, and continue contemporarily, to fight against all forms of injustice including those that seek to circumscribe their realities and experiences. To explore expressions and articulations of alternative discourses, this book analyzes the media texts of exceptional women artists: the stand-up comedy of Palestinian-American Maysoon Zayid, the cinematic interventions of Iranian-American Shirin Neshat, and the television comedy of Pakistani-Canadian Zarqa Nawaz. Using a methodology consisting of a textual analysis grounded in the theoretical framework of postcolonial theory and informed by gender studies and alternative media research, the analysis is supplemented with semi-structured interviews with the artists. This book is suitable for scholars and students in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, and Politics.

Assertions of Unintelligibility

North American Muslim Women Artists Talk Back

Kenza Oumlil

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