The images of women in chadors or burqas as contrasted with images
of belly dancers which circulate today as representations of
Muslim/Middle Eastern women do not fluctuate from the images
propagated by Orientalist paintings and colonial photographs which
also offer contrasting representations of the veiled thus secluded
and the naked or semi-naked thus eroticised Muslim/Oriental woman.
As well as challenging the prevailing stereotypes of the Middle
Eastern and North African women, the book aims to highlight the
element of diversity which characterises the lives of these women
and the regions to which they belong. The sense that most of the
Middle Eastern and North African countries are Muslim does confer a
common identity, a distinction from others that may serve to bridge
wide social, cultural, and economic differences among them.
However, it is also important to stress that significant elements
other than Islam contribute to the making of MENA societies and
women's cultural identities. This book was published as a special
issue of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
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