Islamic dress in Lebanon is the object of numerous forms of overt and covert discrimination and aggression. Yet, such experiences and those subject to them have long gone unseen and unheard in public, media, and scholarly debates. This book is the first to document the daily experiences of hate endured by women wearing Islamic dress in Lebanon. Based on in-depth interviews with over 100 Sunni and Shia participants across the country, the book analyses women's experiences and argues that they are a form of anti-Muslim racism within the Arab-majority and Muslim-majority 'Middle East'. The book consequently explores the workings of this anti-Muslim racism and its manifestation within the larger structure of Eurocentric modernity/coloniality. In doing this, it draws on Latin American decolonial thought and offers an urgent and timely redress to multiple gaps and biases in the study of anti-Muslim racism and research in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies..
- | Author: Ali Kassem
- | Publisher: I.B. Tauris
- | Publication Date: Feb 23, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 216 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 075564798X
- | ISBN-13: 9780755647989
