LOOKING FOR HOME IN THE ISLAMIC DIASPORA OF AYAAN HIRSI ALI, AZAR NAFISI, AND KHALED HOSSEINI

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Ian Buruma, lecture, "Islamist Radicalism in Europe," November 8, 2007, 5pm. McCormick Tribune Forum, Evanston, II.
Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (New York: Penguin Press, 2006).
Buruma, lecture, "Islamist Radicalism in Europe."
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, "Islam's Silent Moderates," New York Times, Opinion Section, December 7, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/opinion/07ali.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=s login
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel (New York: Free Press, 2007), 348.
Linda Zerilli, "Toward a Feminist Theory of Judgement," Signs 34:2 (2009), 295-317.
Hirsi Ali, "Islam's Silent Moderates."
Denise Helly, "Diaspora: History of an Idea," in Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture, and Identity, ed. Haideh Moghissi (New York: Routledge, 2006), 5.
Haideh Moghissi, "Introduction," in Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture, and Identity, ed. Haideh Moghissi (New York: Routledge, 2006), xiv.
Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 2.
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (New York: Random House, 2004), 338.
Ibid., 333.
Hamid Dabashi, "Native Informers and the Making of the American Empire," Al-Ahram Weekly Online , June 2006. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/797/special.htm
Ibid.
Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran, 262.
Ibid., 6.
Ibid., 302.
Fatemeh Keshavarz, Jasmine and Stars : Reading More than "Lolita" in Tehran (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
Fatemeh Keshavarz, interview, Spring 2007. http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/interviews/f_keshavarz_ interview.htm
Ibid.
Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran, 341.
Hirsi Ali, Infidel, 69.
Ibid., 31, 178.
Ian Buruma, "Against Submission," New York Times Review of Books, March 4, 2007. http://www. nytimes.com/2007/03/04/books/review/04buruma.html?ref=books
Ibid.
Hirsi Ali, Infidel, 346.
Ibid., 235.
Buruma, "Against Submission."
Hirsi Ali, Infidel, 210.
Ibid., 179 and 211.
Hesham A. Hassaballa, "Ayaan Hirsi Ali: A One-Note Islam Critic," The American Muslim, March 2, 2007. http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/ayaan_hirsi_ali_a_one_note_ islam_critic/0013297
Hirsi Ali, Infidel, 31.
Hassaballah, "Ayaan Hirsi Ali."
Hirsi Ali, Infidel, 31.
Ibid., 31.
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (New York: Riverhead Books, 2005), 19.
Ibid., 29.
Joan Smith, "Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini," The London Times Online, May 19, 2007. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/ fiction/article 1807673. ece
Farhad Azad, "Dialogue with Khaled Hosseini," Afghan Magazine, June 2004.
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns (New York: Riverhead Books, 2007), 366.
David Pryce-Jones, "Liberated Woman," Commentary 123:4, 67-71, at page 67.
Ibid., 67.
Hirsi Ali, Infidel, 348.
Ibid., xii.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Dabashi, "Native Informers and the Making of the American Empire."
Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 19.
Smith, "Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns."
Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 136.

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[1] Ian Buruma, lecture, "Islamist Radicalism in Europe," November 8, 2007, 5pm. McCormick Tribune Forum, Evanston, II.

[2] Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (New York: Penguin Press, 2006).

[3] Buruma, lecture, "Islamist Radicalism in Europe."

[4] Ayaan Hirsi Ali, "Islam's Silent Moderates," New York Times, Opinion Section, December 7, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/opinion/07ali.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=s login

[5] Ibid.

[6] Ibid.

[7] Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel (New York: Free Press, 2007), 348.

[8] Linda Zerilli, "Toward a Feminist Theory of Judgement," Signs 34:2 (2009), 295-317.

[9] Hirsi Ali, "Islam's Silent Moderates."

[10] Denise Helly, "Diaspora: History of an Idea," in Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture, and Identity, ed. Haideh Moghissi (New York: Routledge, 2006), 5.

[11] Haideh Moghissi, "Introduction," in Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture, and Identity, ed. Haideh Moghissi (New York: Routledge, 2006), xiv.

[12] Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 2.

[13] Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (New York: Random House, 2004), 338.

[14] Ibid., 333.

[15] Hamid Dabashi, "Native Informers and the Making of the American Empire," Al-Ahram Weekly Online , June 2006. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/797/special.htm

[16] Ibid.

[17] Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran, 262.

[18] Ibid., 6.

[19] Ibid., 302.

[20] Fatemeh Keshavarz, Jasmine and Stars : Reading More than "Lolita" in Tehran (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).

[21] Fatemeh Keshavarz, interview, Spring 2007. http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/interviews/f_keshavarz_ interview.htm

[22] Ibid.

[23] Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran, 341.

[24] Hirsi Ali, Infidel, 69.

[25] Ibid., 31, 178.

[26] Ian Buruma, "Against Submission," New York Times Review of Books, March 4, 2007. http://www. nytimes.com/2007/03/04/books/review/04buruma.html?ref=books

[27] Ibid.

[28] Hirsi Ali, Infidel, 346.

[29] Ibid., 235.

[30] Buruma, "Against Submission."

[31] Hirsi Ali, Infidel, 210.

[32] Ibid., 179 and 211.

[33] Hesham A. Hassaballa, "Ayaan Hirsi Ali: A One-Note Islam Critic," The American Muslim, March 2, 2007. http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/ayaan_hirsi_ali_a_one_note_ islam_critic/0013297

[34] Hirsi Ali, Infidel, 31.

[35] Hassaballah, "Ayaan Hirsi Ali."

[36] Hirsi Ali, Infidel, 31.

[37] Ibid., 31.

[38] Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (New York: Riverhead Books, 2005), 19.

[39] Ibid., 29.

[40] Joan Smith, "Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini," The London Times Online, May 19, 2007. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/ fiction/article 1807673. ece

[41] Farhad Azad, "Dialogue with Khaled Hosseini," Afghan Magazine, June 2004.

[42] Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns (New York: Riverhead Books, 2007), 366.

[43] David Pryce-Jones, "Liberated Woman," Commentary 123:4, 67-71, at page 67.

[44] Ibid., 67.

[45] Hirsi Ali, Infidel, 348.

[46] Ibid., xii.

[47] Ibid.

[48] Ibid.

[49] Dabashi, "Native Informers and the Making of the American Empire."

[50] Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 19.

[51] Smith, "Book Review: A Thousand Splendid Suns."

[52] Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 136.

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