Cairo 678 released in 2010
Unfolds the poignant story of three women and their search for justice from the daily plight of #sexualharassment in Egypt.
[There are cases of Arab women walking freely one moment and then being sexually abused whilst other men shielded that abuse from public view as if they enjoyed viewing the abuse.
As if men in other countries aren't doing the same.
Fuxk us as a gender.]
Dr. Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès | Revealing Recording Reflecting | letterspace nr.66 | 22 APR 2026
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Sorry I've been absent on the radio, I've been dealing with some intense pet health stuff. Hopefully I will be back next week
I wanted to share this article about my friend Hassan and his band Zanjeer who appears on the first No Genocide compilation. I think music from members of the #swana #diaspora and their complicated relationship with where they came from and where they are, is the most interesting and powerful thing happening in the underground scene. From alien kulture at the dawn of #punk to zanjeer, shakti, taqbir, ameretat, ikhras, haram and many others today.
Zanjeer’s Urdu Hardcore Is a Battle Cry From The Migrant Underground The band attacks religious authoritarianism, but it also goes after nationalism, xenophobia and the hostility migrants encounter in Europe.
Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency
Western political discourse often treats Muslims as politically illegible, interpreting Muslim societies through secular or liberal frameworks. This critique examines how Orientalism embedded in Western political thought denies Muslim political agency and frames Islamic resistance as a threat rather than a response to imperial violence.https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/
"The hostage-takers, declaring their solidarity with other "oppressed minorities" and declaring their respect for "the special place of women in Islam," released one woman and two African Americans on
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