The campaign to save endangered noses
How is beauty defined? What pressures do women face when trying to live up to these definitions and established standards? A Facebook page called “Iranian Women Up Close” has taken on these questions and concerns, offering a place for women to debate the concept of beauty and share their experiences.
Recently, the page’s administrators sent out an unusual call. Responding to the huge trend for cosmetic surgery among Iranian women — and Tehran’s reputation as the “nose job capital of the world” — they launched “Pictures of my Natural Nose,” asking women to post photographs of their noses as a protest against a certain definition of beauty.
Source: IranWire
3 Stories on identity and movement by Shlomo Sand
There are few books which have aroused my curiosity in recent years more so than Shlomo Sand‘s “the Invention of the Jewish People‘. It is only fitting, then, that Eric Hobsbawm, the late famed British historian would describe it as such: “Perhaps books combining passion and erudition don’t change political situations, but if they did, this one would count as a landmark.” In his review, he would emphasis on Sand's valuable contribution to “the dismantling of nationalist historical myth.”
Source: Hummus for Thought
Embracing Ramadan in style this year
The thing I personally love most about Ramadan is the way people come together to feast and enjoy meals that I like to call never ending. For exactly 30 days, our outings are divided between being invited and inviting family and friends to feast either during eftar (breaking fast) time which is at sunset and suhour (the last meal before sunrise).
Recently both Arab and International designers are focusing on creating collections that fit the theme of the Holy month by embracing tradition and culture.
Source: The Wire Mannequin
