Marnia Lazreg: 4 books

Across much of the world today, Muslim women of all ages are increasingly choosing to wear the veil. Is this trend a sign of rising piety or a way of asserting Muslim pride? And does the veil really provide women freedom from sexual harassment? Written in the form of letters addressing all those interested...

Sottile, spesso, ruvido, morbido. Nero, azzurro, bianco. Può somigliare a un lungo spolverino, o adagiarsi sulle spalle, come nella Velata di Raffaello. Il velo, un pezzo di stoffa, scatena controversie apocalittiche. Assurge a simbolo ambiguo. Viene denigrato, addirittura vietato, in base a istanze...

The Eloquence of Silence, first published in 1994, is considered a seminal text in the scholarship of women and North Africa. Marnia Lazregmakes a critical departure from more traditional studies of Algerian women, which usually examine female roles in relation to Islam – and instead takes an interdisciplinary...

Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the “Orient” constitute the “limit” of Western rationality. Using archival research supplemented by interviews with key scholars...