What is it about?
It's about Shirin Neshat's first series of photography, Women of Allah in the 1990s, and her series’ immediacy and relevance to our world today.
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Why is it important?
This paper illustrates that Neshat’s Women of Allah has the potential to function pedagogically and shatter the centuries-old stereotypes of Muslim women while questioning Iran’s restrictive and confining rules upon women.
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This page is a summary of: Visual Discourses of (Un)veiling: Revisiting Women of Allah, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004357013_009.
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