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Conference, Symposium, and Panel Reports Perils of Empire: Islamophobia, Religious Extremism, and the New Imperialism The Association of Muslim Social Scientists of North America (AMSS) held its 36th annual conference at the University of Maryland from 26-28 October 2007.
” PANEL 6: THE FEMINIST ENCOUNTER WITH ISLAM IN MUSLIM PRACTICE, IN THE WESTERN PRESS, AND IN THE NEOCOLONIAL DISCOURSE.
Michelle Byng (Temple University) analyzed how the New York Times and the Wash ington Post reported on events affecting Muslims in England and France dur ing 2003-04.
Timothy Elhami Kaldas (Georgetown University) opined that a western “rescue” mission vis-à-vis Muslim women, whether in colonized Algeria or today, involves the need to identity a threat and/or victim, silence the victim, propose a solution, and then implement it.
Charles Butter worth then presented the best paper awards: first place: UsamahAnsari (York University, Canada), “Naming ‘the Muslim’through Citation in Bollywood’s Lucknow Muslim Social Films”; second place: Timothy Elhami Kaldas (Georgetown University), “French Feminists to the Rescue: A Centenary of Metropolitan Discourses on the Salvation of the ‘Distressed Muslim Women,’ 1900 and the Present”; and third place: Sarah Swick (American University): “Dubbing a Western Muslim Culture.
PANEL 8: CULTURAL POLITICS IN MUSLIM DIASPORAS IN THE WEST.
” Sarah Swick (American University) discussed her research project on how young Muslim women in Britain create their own space within mainstream British culture.
PANEL 9: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY: THE MUSLIM OTHER IN POLITICS AND CULTURE.