archival photography/spirit beings
07/03/06 14:44 |
Images
when i work with these mostly forgotten images, i
am frequently arrested by the tender human sentiment
left in the wake of these unnameable persons, now
images.
the animist were right about photography. i does capture something of the spirit being.
there are characters among the Imaginary Muslims that whisper to me everytime i consider their images. we have become collaborators across time.
these people, and their cultures, have long passed. they may have slipped into a digital Eternity now. may they rest in electronic peace.
and what amazing clothes.
The Media And Islam: Reimagining Imagery
06/03/06 20:19
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Media And Islam: Reimagining Imagery -
altmuslim.comThe Media And Islam: Reimagining Imagery
Maybe all that we are, all that we can ever be, are just ordinary folks trying to live our lives. Now that would be a relief.
By Maliha Masood, March 6, 2006
Women in veils. Praying men. Headscarves and burqas. Mosque and minaret. No other images seem relevant when it comes to portraying Muslims in the mainstream press. This is not to dispute or deny the reality of veils and prayer, but to focus exclusively on such imagery alienates Muslims as strange people with odd habits. It creates a visual shorthand of the "other" designed to cater to what the Western media is used to seeing or what it wants to see. Anything that doesn't fit is dismissed as a red herring. That is to say, there can be no surprises about how Muslims look and behave.
James Yee book review
06/03/06 20:05
03/03/06
11:36
Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
Another casualty of the 'war on terror'
For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism under Fire by James Yee and Aimee Molloy
Reviewed by Imran Andrew Price
Former army captain James Yee, a West Point graduate and Muslim chaplain to 660 prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, has written an absorbing autobiography detailing his September 2003 arrest for espionage and subsequent dismissal of all charges against him.
His book, written with journalist Aimee Melloym, is a searing indictment of the Bush administration's "war on terror" by one of its many innocent victims.
