Special Notices

Call for Submissions:

**May 2004**

Writer Sarah Husain from New York City is seeking submissions for an anthology titled Muslim Women Redefine WAR.

NOTE: Please direct all inquireis regarding this project to Sarah at muswymnanthology@comcast.net.

Description:
This anthology seeks to redefine the stereotypical definitions of “Muslim” women that over flow Western discourses on the Islamic Other. The veil, seemingly the age-old symbol of our repression and the archetypical rationale for our rescuing by the west, has become a transparent symbol of Islamic “barbarity.” In this anthology we seek to move beyond such sterile representations and narrow debates, calling for work that engages the complexity that make up “Muslim” women’s contemporary realities. We seek to construct a multiple-voiced text and many-sided vision of our lives as “Muslim” women by forging ourselves into new creative collectivities. In this process the category “Muslim” must be rendered anew through our own politics and cultural practices and such a rendering must reflect the many valences of our multiple histories because we come from all parts of the “Muslim” world—whether we are from Saudi Arabia, Britain, Indonesia, Sudan or Black Muslims in the United States.

Issues such as but not limited to:

  • Muslim Women and the Nation
  • Terrorism
  • Counter terrorism
  • Muslim women and the Nuclear Bomb or WMD
  • Muslim women and women of colour
  • Building Coalitions
  • The war in Kashmir, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal, Philippines, India, Pakistan, Middle East, New York City, Indonesia, Algeria, Sudan, etc. etc.
  • Hate crimes
  • Queer Muslim women and their struggles and wars
  • The border the body and the Muslim nation
  • Motherhood and war
  • Pregnancy and War
  • Military Tribunals
  • INS detention and deportations
  • The construction of the wall in Palestine
  • India Pakistan border
  • Nightmares and September 11th
  • The Gulf War
  • Media and Muslim women
  • Organizing and Muslim women
  • The veil and liberation
  • The Quran and war and women
  • Muslim women and health
  • Reproductive rights to the fight for better health care/facilities
  • Cancer and Muslim women

Submission deadline: November 15th, 2004

Please send submissions to:
Sarah Husain
Email: muswymnanthology@comcast.net
Mail:
1115 Lasswade Dr.
Tallahassee, FL 32312
USA