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Anti-Muslim hate on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean: Lebanon, the Hijab, and modernity/coloniality
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posted on 2023-06-09, 22:31 authored by Ali KassemInformed by the theorization of the modernity/(de)coloniality studies collective, this paper thinks alongside hijabi women in Lebanon – a small Arab Mediterranean country – and their lived experiences in “mainstream Lebanese society”. Drawing on six-months of qualitative fieldwork through in-depth interviews and focus groups with photo-elicitation, the paper documents and analyses lived experiences of discrimination, exclusion and erasure. Identifying dehumanization, civility and progress, and a present potent wider rejection of Islam in Lebanon, it argues for a framing of participant’s shared experiences as anti-Muslim racism under modernity/coloniality and highlights the need to de-exceptionalize the region and the analytical tools mobilized to understand it.
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Ethnic and Racial StudiesISSN
0141-9870Publisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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1-21Department affiliated with
- Sociology and Criminology Publications
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2020-12-18First Open Access (FOA) Date
2022-08-04First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2020-12-18Usage metrics
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