Discussion Board

According to Nadine Naber, Arab American feminist scholars before 9/11 argued that the U.S. government and corporate media images portrayed Arab women through colonialist tropes, Oppressed Arab Muslim women compared to liberated American women, and these tropes were emerging alongside expanding U.S.economic and military interventions in the Middle East.

Refer to the links below. After 20 years on 9/11, do you think Arab feminist movements have managed to correct this image?

https://glas.uic.edu/profiles/naber-nadine/

https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_naber_arab_feminism_is_not_an_oxymoron?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

https://nadinenaber.com/2011/02/imperial-feminism-islamophobia-and-the-egyptian-revolution/