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University of Northern Iowa

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2013

Muslim women--Public opinion; Veils--Social aspects; Photographs--Social aspects; Veils in mass media;

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Recalcitrant Arguments, Kiranjeet Kaur Dhillon Jan 2013

Recalcitrant Arguments, Kiranjeet Kaur Dhillon

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On January 26, 2011, Reuters photojournalist Amr Abdallah Dalsh took an image of a unknown veiled woman gesturing at Dalsh and his camera. Using TinEye, a reverse image search engine, I found that 86 circulations and 22 recirculations of the photo were primarily in the United States. US graphic artist Nick Bygon created one of the recirculations, which primarily appeared on US blogs. The photo achieved this level of circulation in the US because it is consistent with, and therefore legible within the symbolic language, of the liberal democratic order. Similar to “Migrant Mother” and “Tank Man”, the photo is …