Frances Catanio
Senior editor at TheWeek.com. New Yorker. Film & chocolate lover. Traveler.
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Pair it with this song.
Happy snow day, lil foxes.
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As a photographer, I have exquisitely bad timing: In nearly 23 years of marriage, my wife points out, I have only taken about 10...
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WHEN I CATCH AN ERROR IN THE MAGAZINE AFTER IT'S GONE TO PRESS
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8. Hey, people who work for “good causes” by standing in the middle of the sidewalk with a...
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Posts tagged "wife"
The construction of Sadah as the pitiful child bride of Bin Laden reminds me of the language used in relation to Muslim women in Afghanistan after the attacks of 9/11. Such images risk provoking the problematic question of whether or not certain Muslim women need “saving”. For me, this takes away from one of the most important victories of the Arab spring – the shift in perspective regarding the coverage of Arab and Muslim women. Rather than focusing on stereotypes, media images of women playing an active role in creating social change have begun to paint a much more nuanced picture of the diverse struggles faced by women in the Arab world.
(via The Guardian)
