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The Muslim as the “Other”: Representation and Self-Image of the Muslims in North America

1991
Abstract The politics of representing Islam and Muslims in American cultural and political discourse and the Muslims’ reponse to it in how they interpret Islam and identify themselves, reveal a dialectical relationship between Western representations of Muslims and Muslims’ self-image.
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The Congressional Representation of Muslim-American Constituents

Politics and Religion, 2009
AbstractLegislators' responsiveness to constituency preferences is an accepted cornerstone of American representative democracy. Focusing on key domestic anti-terrorism votes during the 109th Congress, this study explores whether or not the presence of Muslim-Americans in a district influenced House members' roll-call behavior.
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Reconsidering Limited Representations of Islam and Muslims

Religious Studies and Theology, 2015
The spirit and intent of this reflection is to open up the ways in which the “single storying” of Islam and Muslims limits more ethical forms of relationality. This reflective piece seeks to make evident the ways in which limited representations of particular faith traditions produces feelings of isolation, exclusion and a sense of disconnect from ...
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Representation of Muslim Women in Indian Cinema

Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
Previous studies have indicated that the popular media portrays Muslim women as oppressed and silent victims of their religion and patriarchy. This paper uses content analysis method to analyse Bollywood movies in order to answer following questions: Do Muslim women have adequate representation in Indian cinema?
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THE REPRESENTATION OF MUSLIM WOMEN IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND

The Muslim World, 1996
Au cours de la Renaissance, les ecrivains anglais sont attires par le statut des femmes dans l'Empire ottoman. En effet, les observateurs occidentaux ne manquent pas d'insister sur la condition des femmes musulmanes et de la comparer avec la menace de l'emancipation des femmes occidentales qui veulent acceder pour certaines d'entre elles a un role ...
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Muslim like us: mobilizing minority identities in popular Australian entertainment media as sites of transnational representation

Media, Culture and Society, 2021
Benjamin Nickl
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Access denied: exploring Muslim American representation and exclusion by state legislators

Politics, Groups & Identities, 2020
Nazita Lajevardi
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Muslim Women and the Politics of Representation

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 2008
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Symbolic representations of Islam and Muslims

2020
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Representation of Muslim Women in the OTT Industry

Media are expected to inform and facilitate connections between people around the world and serve as a normalizing forum for social construction of realities. Because society values the media so much, the media currently has the power to direct attention to and from issues, and mold public perceptions.
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