Join GEC  at AWARE on 3 December for a roundtable  to explore the various representations of hijab in the media.

“Veiled Representation” will provide an outlook into the perception of Hijab and veiling in the new media era. The talk will discuss differences between how the “West” and “Muslim” contexts approach veiled women. It will provide a brief analysis of the western view of veiling and how it serves to construct discourses that make veiled women “the other”. In addition, the speaker will critique how the veil has emerged as a political symbol and discuss how Islam is represented through the bodies of Muslim women in the media.

It will also aspire to reflect discussions rooted in the Islamic tradition about donning the hijab, hijabi women’s representation in the media, and touch on how hijabi women present themselves in new media where physical presence is absent. This roundtable discussion will seek to convey both western conditioned imagery of veiled Muslim women and veiled Muslim women’s thoughts and self-representation in media with an emphasis on new media.

Event Details:

Date: Wednesday, 3 December

Time: 7:30pm

Location: AWARE Centre

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About the speaker: Gulizar Haciyakupoglu is a PhD candidate with Lee Kong Chian scholarship at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research interests include the intricate relation between Gender and New Media, Islam and New Media, Gender and Islam, and Deliberative Democracy. Her dissertation focuses on effects of the interplay between emphasis on oral communication in Islamic culture vis-à-vis stress on dissemination under postmodernity on the promulgation of Islamic feminist interpretations of gender equality in Islam by way of new media.