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Book SynopsisSuad Joseph is Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at the University of California, Davis, USA. She founded the Association for Middle East Women's Studies and co-founded its internationally recognized
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies; she also founded the Arab Families Research Group, and co-founded the Arab American Studies Association and the Association for Middle East Anthropology.
Trade ReviewA comprehensive multi-faceted study that should serve as a reminder for reporters covering Islam to pause and reflect on the power of words to marginalize, trivialize, and mislead.
* Lawrence Pintak, PhD. Former CBS News Middle East correspondent and author, America and Islam *
This book is an invaluable resource, highlighting the gendered violence and Islamophobic misrepresentations that Muslim women experience around the globe driven, in part, by the flawed reporting that is prevalent in newspapers of record, such as the New York Times. A must read for anyone interested in understanding how media can shape perceptions of women and Islam. * Shaheen Pasha, Pennsylvania State University, USA *
In careful, dismaying detail, this must-read thoroughly researched essay collection shows how our most trusted media sources promote Islamophobia.
Reporting Islam is a sobering reminder of how Islamophobia is not the result of ignorance, but of routinized, persistent misrepresentation by our most revered institutions. * Evelyn Alsultany, USC Dornsife, USA *
By analyzing anti-Muslim racism within the contexts of colonialism, global capitalism, and race/class/gender politics,
Reporting Islam helps readers understand the historical and political conditions through which it emerges. It also updates existing perspectives on how media representations fuel some of the most urgent forms of injustice of our times while providing readers with tools for imagining and building a world without Islamophobia and racism. Its urgent interventions make it a must read for the general public and scholars across many fields--from Arab American and Muslim American Studies to Race and Ethnic Studies, Middle East Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, Media Studies, and beyond. * Nadine Naber, University of Illinois , Chicago, USA *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction
Suad Joseph, University of California, Davis, USA 1. Maturing Islam: Turkey as the Site of Islamic Liberalization in the New York Times, 1980–2011,
Caroline McKusick, University of California, Davis, USA 2. The Material life of Representation: “Veiled Muslim Women” in the New York Times, 1980–2011,
Lena Meari,
Birzeit University, Palestine 3. Specters of Islam: Anti-Islamist (Re)Presentations in Secular Media and Feminism in the New York Times, 1979–2011,
Tanzeen Rashed Doha, University of California, Davis, USA 4. Friends and Foes: The Pragmatic Liberal Biases in Representation of Saudi Women vs. Iranian Women in the New York Times, 1980–2011,
Hakeem Naim, University of California, Berkeley, USA 5. The Islamic World Is Flat(tened): Contesting Islam in South Asia in the New York Times, 1980–2011,
Rajbir Judge, California State University, USA
