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What Little Difference A Year Makes
>> Humera
Khan
A
Year of Political Drift >> Yahya
Birt
Our
Upside Down World >> Ibrahim Hewitt
London: The Strength of a Soft City
>> Caspar
Melville
The Chilling Price of Security
>> Imran
Khan
“To
care about the ummah is a blessing, not a danger” >> Abdul Wahid
Is Poverty History Yet? >> Kumi Naidoo
Nanu
Miah - The King of Parr >> Shamim
Miah
Does
Terror Grow
in Our Garden Too? >> Nazim
Baksh
A
Sweet Interrogation >> Fareena
Alam
Unlimited mahabba
>>
Fuad Nahdi
The
Cloak of Beauty >> Fozia
Bora
The Heart’s Dance in God’s Presence >>
Daniel
Abdal Hayy Moore
Among the Giants >>
Daniel Abdal Hayy Moore
Educating Against Islamophobia >> Shiraz Khan
That Wouldn’t be Very Christian, Would it? >> Farzina Alam
The
Unravelling of Ayaan Hirsi Ali >> Mohamed N. Husain
The Fundamental Fear >> Farish
A. Noor
Crime
in the Valley >> Nick
Dearden
The Taliban Strikes Back >> Chris
Sands
Grasping
the Nettle >> Atif
Imtiaz
Plovdiv: Granada of the East >> Abdal-Hakim
Murad
Life in the Zongo >> Abdullah
Bradford
Hollywood Not History >> Sufia Lodhi
Painting a Difficult Conversation >> Unaiza Karim
Shaykh Che >> Jennifer Varela and Amina Nawaz
Wayfarers
to God >> Qaisar
Latif
Looking Back from the
Future >> H.A.Hellyer
The Purse and the Accidental Activist
>> Lilit Marcus
Diary >> Fuad Nahdi
The Peace Warrior
Prerogatives of the Mosques >> Muhammad
Khan
Vox Populi
Making a
Better Wudu
Considering Pew
Leeds’s Caged
Muslim
The Failure of
Mike Gapes MP
The World Halal
Industry Comes to London
US
Congress Gets Ready for its first Muslim
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An Object of
Paranoia
Page 13
Q-News, Issue 367
July 2006
A young British Muslim sits
motionless in a cage, in the middle of a busy art gallery. People
wander by stopping, staring nervously, wondering what the hell is going
on. Is his presence among us a real danger? Or a fabrication of a
broader, more sinister agenda?
As part of the acclaimed group show PARANOIA,
which opened on June 28 at the Leeds City Art Gallery, artist Doug
Fishbone hired a young British Muslim from the Leeds area to sit
impassively, in traditional dress, in the middle of a busy private
view. An object of paranoia, and a seed of fear in the white Western
imagination, yet doing nothing more threatening than merely sitting
there. As he might be sitting on the tube...
A subtle commentary on the alienation felt by young Muslim men in the
contemporary terrorist panic, and the ambivalence of British racial
identity and populist propaganda, this project questions the
preversions and contradictions of the West’s vision of Islam. After
all, the 7/7 bombers came from the Leeds area.
Doug Fishbone is a video,
performance and installation artist living and working in London.
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