Umme Al‐wazedi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6368368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Umme Al‐wazedi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Umme |
| FAMILY NAME | Al‐wazedi |
| SIGNATURE | AL WAZEDI U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Augustana College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Feminist Foremothers and Feminist Struggles in Bangladesh: An Interview with Roushan Jahan
Bangladeshi Literature and Film: Memories and Monuments
A Suitable Girl: Willfulness and Militant Femininity
I Am the Maker of My Image: Marvel’s No Normal and the Comic Book Muslim Woman
In 2014, the editor and writer of Ms. Marvel, Sana Amanat and G. Willow Wilson,1 created an extraordinary new superhero-a young Muslim girl Kamala Khan. She is like any other middle-class girl in New Jersey in many ways, and critics like Noah Berlatsky feel that Kamala’s story is an “assimilation fantasy” (“What Makes”). This essay argues that the story goes beyond the idea of assimilation. It shows how the comic depicts Kamala as a Pakistani-Ame…
Representing diasporic masculinities in post-9/11 era: The tragedy versus the comedy
In the post-9/11 era, North American mainstream writers, critics, artists, and scholars while trying to understand the complexities of Islam, Muslim men, and their relationship to North America have created hegemonic discourses about Islam and Muslim masculinity. Diasporic writers such as Zarqa Nawaz, in her sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie, and Mohsin Hamid, in his novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, however, offer representations of masculin…
Guest Editor's Column II
Velvet Jihad”: South Asian Muslim Women Writers Waging a Narrative War
Faegheh Shirazi uses the term “Velvet Jihad,” borrowed from the 1989 anti-communist Velvet Revolution of the Czechs and Slovaks, to describe the connection between non-violent resistance and Muslim women activists living in the Muslim world. The Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin and the Pakistani writer Tehmina Durrani are also participating in this jihad. This essay analyzes Nasrin's autobiography My Girlhood and Durrani's novel Blasphemy in rel…
A Suitable Girl: Willfulness and Militant Femininity
Representing diasporic masculinities in post-9/11 era: The tragedy versus the comedy
In the post-9/11 era, North American mainstream writers, critics, artists, and scholars while trying to understand the complexities of Islam, Muslim men, and their relationship to North America have created hegemonic discourses about Islam and Muslim masculinity. Diasporic writers such as Zarqa Nawaz, in her sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie, and Mohsin Hamid, in his novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, however, offer representations of masculin…
Velvet Jihad”: South Asian Muslim Women Writers Waging a Narrative War
Faegheh Shirazi uses the term “Velvet Jihad,” borrowed from the 1989 anti-communist Velvet Revolution of the Czechs and Slovaks, to describe the connection between non-violent resistance and Muslim women activists living in the Muslim world. The Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin and the Pakistani writer Tehmina Durrani are also participating in this jihad. This essay analyzes Nasrin's autobiography My Girlhood and Durrani's novel Blasphemy in rel…
Representing diasporic masculinities in post-9/11 era: The tragedy versus the comedy
In the post-9/11 era, North American mainstream writers, critics, artists, and scholars while trying to understand the complexities of Islam, Muslim men, and their relationship to North America have created hegemonic discourses about Islam and Muslim masculinity. Diasporic writers such as Zarqa Nawaz, in her sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie, and Mohsin Hamid, in his novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, however, offer representations of masculin…
Guest Editor's Column II
I Am the Maker of My Image: Marvel’s No Normal and the Comic Book Muslim Woman
In 2014, the editor and writer of Ms. Marvel, Sana Amanat and G. Willow Wilson,1 created an extraordinary new superhero-a young Muslim girl Kamala Khan. She is like any other middle-class girl in New Jersey in many ways, and critics like Noah Berlatsky feel that Kamala’s story is an “assimilation fantasy” (“What Makes”). This essay argues that the story goes beyond the idea of assimilation. It shows how the comic depicts Kamala as a Pakistani-Ame…
A Suitable Girl: Willfulness and Militant Femininity
Feminist Foremothers and Feminist Struggles in Bangladesh: An Interview with Roushan Jahan
Bangladeshi Literature and Film: Memories and Monuments
Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)