Ever taste only part of a good meal? An article on an art exhibit on Muslim women in the Tampa Bay Times feels like that.
The article raises several tantalizing questions about Muslim women – their garb, their self-image, their public image – but doesn't follow up most of them. The result reads less like dinner and more like a canape.
It's a timely and urgent topic because traditional Muslim women face more profiling than so Muslim men. With headdresses covering their hair, sometimes wrapping around their heads and necks as well, the women are instantly identifiable as non-Jews or non-Christians – and non-secular people, for that matter. So "Loud Print," the show at the Carrollwood Cultural Center, has the potential to open some eyes.
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