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Bollywood Case Study Refs.

https://feminisminindia.com/2020/01/14/bollywood-islamophobia-objectifying-muslim-characters/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328580196_Portrayal_of_Muslims_in_the_Bollywood_Movies

https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/watch/a-muslim-in-bollywood/article27090397.ece

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/bollywood-politics-hate-190512120818857.html

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/568940-hollywood-bollywood-and-islamophobia

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/opinion/bollywood-politics-india-modi.html

https://www.criticalmuslim.io/top-ten-muslim-characters-in-bollywood/

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/shah-rukh-khan-modi-mohammed-bin-salman

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/movie-reviews/210319/kesari-movie-review-entertaining-but-underwhelming.html

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Zine Notes

The Economist - text heavy publication

Varoom - more vibrant visual publication with more varied layouts

OOMK

Spectacle magazine

Look to find a way to separate the different subsections, as opposed to several small zines, One larger zine (~40 pages) that is split in some fashion

Could use symbols, colour, types, paper differentiation

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VOLUME I:A Fragment of a Turkish Tale

Zeynel and Ayşe are a pair of happily-married carpet merchants in 17th century Ottoman Istanbul. While on a business trip, Zeynel becomes a Good Samaritan to a lost traveller in red. He wakes up the next day discovering, to his horror, that he is the victim of a blood-sucking djinni. Now a djinni himself, he returns home desperate to reconcile his new life with his faith and former human identity, afraid to leave behind the woman he loves.

VOLUME II:A Modern Karagöz and Hacivat 

70 years later in England, Zeynel is at the centre of a fad for all things Turkish, grappling with the meaning of home as it is distorted by Orientalism. Meanwhile, he and his young English friend must deal with the return of Mora Strigoi — the ancient Roman vampire responsible for Zeynel's death — who has come to seek forgiveness.

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dont readthe comments its depressing

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V V USEFUL. 

“for artist and viewer alike, the Orient allowed the Western libido free reign”

THOUGHTS

taming of the east -> links all the wya back to greek times. centaurs and amazons being characterised as coming form the east, barbaric, sexually liberal

fetisisation of foreign women, feminising of estern men. 

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literature and muslim futurism

https://troublesomethirtiesblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/22/muslim-futurism-science-fiction-with-a-muslim-flavour/

https://aeon.co/ideas/think-sci-fi-doesnt-belong-in-the-muslim-world-think-again

courtly love research needed (Lancelot and Guninnver effect)

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"Alhamdu" is the Arabic term for "Praise be", Alhamdullilah being an expression of relief, joy, exasperation, etc to Muslims everywhere.

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http://www.hebaamin.com/arabian-street-artists-bomb-homeland-why-we-hacked-an-award-winning-series/

‘Homeland is racist’  ‘ #gasewsew’ (a reference to the Egyptian Abla Fahita puppet on spying

‘Homeland is not a real series’ (al watan mesh mosalsal)

Homeland is watermelon (al watan bateekh) (watermelon is a word often used to indicate that something is a sham or not to be taken seriously)

right: ‘against the red, blue and purple devil’ (A Muslim Brotherhood reference made by an Egyptian general on Television in 2013) left: ‘Homeland is a joke, and it didn’t make us laugh’

‘Set designers were too frantic to pay any attention to us; they were busy constructing a hyper-realistic set that addressed everything from the plastic laundry pins to the frayed edges of outdoor plastic curtains. It looked very Middle Eastern and the summer sun and heat helped heighten that illusion. The content of what was written on the walls, however, was of no concern. In their eyes, Arabic script is merely a supplementary visual that completes the horror-fantasy of the Middle East, a poster image dehumanizing an entire region to human-less figures in black burkas and moreover, this season, to refugees.’

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THE PROBLEM WITH TRYING TO FIND ANYTHING POST 9/11

~*RANT INBOUND*~

this programme came up in my research and although there is some useful information for the muslim populace at this point in time bu the annoying thing is the constant need to justify every statement because in a post 9/11 world there is a constant need to prove ourselves as not being radical, violent, misogynistic, tortured, backward.

and yet this is not the case for Christians, who have just as radical wings but we dont need to sit here and explain every detail of them

also this constant fixation with how women are treated, everything is about women. I am tempted to just keep a whole issue/chapter of my dissertation for just trying to deal with the whole stigma around women. 

i think it will also be important i now understand, to really deconstruct the religious side of our lives as well. therefore it will be important to seek the advice and teachings of suitable scholars who are used to explaining these concepts to non muslims and arent hardline crazy. 

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the importance of hearing from the Muslim women themselves. Positive discussion, can hear the lack of understanding in the interviewer, its a positive story but also highlights an important issue

highlights importance for me of writing to the creators/authors/academics to hear their side of things

tone that i will want to echo in most of my writing. academic and thoughtful but also open and nonjudgmental. 

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ENSHROUD, Lagos, Nigeria, 2018-Ongoing, Medina Dugger

digital collage on plastic prayer mats

“I photographed them twirling, jumping and skipping to recreate moments I’d witnessed in the city, which were often incongruent with my previously held notions of women in hijab.” 

https://www.medinadugger.com/enshroud

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Homeland articles index with short notes

Cinema Journal(2012)

Fictions of Terror: Complexity, Complicity and Insecurity in Homeland.

Television Crime Drama and Homeland Security: From Law & Order to "Terror TV.".

Guardian Articles 

Homeland is brilliant drama. But does it present a crude image of Muslims?

Does Homeland just wave the American flag?

Homeland: does it give an accurate picture of Middle East politics?

'Homeland is racist': artists sneak subversive graffiti on to TV show

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[IDEAS] [WORKING DOCUMENT] set of zines, each ‘chapter’ of dissertation is a zine. Therefore need to make sets of topics with positive and negative responses/ examples, plus what real life is like without negativity/romanticism.  Can also do retroactively with collected data that can fit into topics.

list of topic ideas/ areas

Depictions of Muslim countries [homeland, CoD, british museum exhibit. positives could be The Breadwinner, ertugul?, 

Depictions of muslim people/civilisations [Padmavaat, british museum, literary history, ideas of muslims in the west eg quilliam, four lions, real housewives of isis, don quixote, skam sweden, i am khan?]

guide to muslim clothing [quantico mess, xmen mess, skam sweden (contrast with waterloo road), how muslim character wear silly hijabs, range of muslim cloting, hassan hajjaj]

Muslims in non muslim countries 

everyday life of muslims 

the future of muslim rep. Eg, Muslim Futurism, arab futurism, Mipsters etc.

MUSLIMS IN LITERATURE (both dated, for example Don Quixote and modern such as works of S.A. Chakraborty and the influence of moorish literary tropes on things like the story of Guinevere and Lancelot)

 fixation on women, fixation on violence, fixation on sexuality/ fetishising 

also could have interviews with muslims in certain fields that are mentioned, write to british museum curators and the female artists featured in show, write to reliable scholars (e.g. suhaib webb) to assist with certain answers, maybe a FAQ/ Q&A in each issue to help debunk major myths regarding it in short sharp bursts

illustrated, maybe short comics (huda fahmy style?) not all have to be walls of text, plenty of visual language. riso zines.