… I have to say that this argument between Naomi Wolf & Phyllis Chesler mostly depresses me. When it comes to Wolf, I think she had her heart in the right place, but did make a few claims that rather romanticize the idea of hijab. For example, when she says: It is not that IslamContinue reading “As amusing as it may be to watch two non-Muslim women duke it out over the veil…”
Monthly Archives: September 2009
On the metro. 9 p.m.
My big shoulder-bag, one of the stars of this essay, doesn’t lend itself to traveling with an iPod if I don’t have a coat with pockets on. On the metro, coming back from spray-painted, moonlit Obolon’, I ended up having to stuff it in the waistband of my jeans as I stood by the door,Continue reading “On the metro. 9 p.m.”
Tuesday music: the first of September edition
Today is the day that schoolchildren begin their year around here. The anniversary of Beslan. The symbolic (if not scientific) beginning of autumn. The day the harvest of a particular grain begins (damned if I remember which one right now). I walked all over town in high heels, my feet are torn all over theContinue reading “Tuesday music: the first of September edition”
Natalia A. 