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El Saadawi Does Not Orientalize The Other In Woman At Point Zero, Luma Balaa
El Saadawi Does Not Orientalize The Other In Woman At Point Zero, Luma Balaa
Journal of International Women's Studies
El Saadawi’s work in translation has been widely read in the West. On the one hand, she has been criticized for writing for the West, and many Arab critics argue that El Saadawi is famous in the West not because she “champions women’s rights, but because she tells western readers what they want to hear” (Amireh, 1996). In addition, when Woman at Point Zero is taught in the Western classroom, some students, reviewers, and critics tend at times to read the novel as a window “onto a timeless Islam instead of as [a] literary [work] governed by certain conventions and …
The Victimization Of The “Muslim Woman”: The Case Of Amina Filali, Morocco, Nima Mesbahi
The Victimization Of The “Muslim Woman”: The Case Of Amina Filali, Morocco, Nima Mesbahi
Journal of International Women's Studies
In 2012, Amina Filali, a young Moroccan teenager killed herself after a judge had ruled for her to marry her rapist. Drawing from the story of Amina, this paper will contextualize the event in its broader scope analyzing the international and national discourses surrounding the case, reminiscent of orientalist discourses that constantly portray the “Muslim woman” as a victim of Islam. Through a careful reading of the text of law, I will show that the clause 475 of the penal code is in fact a Napoleonic law adopted in verbatim rather than an Islamic tradition. Through an analysis of a …