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"""Ali Kassem's book represents a nuanced, reflective, and honest engagement of listening to those who have been denied dignity and voice in Lebanon. It problematizes the racialization of visible Muslim women as a form of systematic aggression that is embedded in the coloniality of power."" --FARID HAFEZ, WILLIAMS COLLEGE, USA ""In this exceptional new book, Ali Kassem offers rare and important insights into the lives of hijabi women in the ex-French colony of Lebanon. Through listening to everyday experiences of Islamophobia, this book masterfully engages the decolonial lens to articulate a principled and urgent account of coloniality in the Muslim World."" --KIMBERLY BRAYSON, PROFESSOR OF CRITICAL JURISPRUDENCE, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER, UK ""This book skillfully demonstrates how anti-Muslim racism thrives in contexts of coloniality. Through rich ethnographies revealing the lived experiences of visibly Muslim women in homes, offices, shops and streets across Lebanon, Ali Kassem craftily interprets how everyday modalities of oppression and exclusion lead to erasure, while attempts to challenge this othering are mostly conducive to dissonance."" --MONA HARB, PROFESSOR OF URBAN STUDIES AND POLITICS, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT, LEBANON"

Ali Kassem’s book represents a nuanced, reflective, and honest engagement of listening to those who have been denied dignity and voice in Lebanon. It problematizes the racialization of visible Muslim women as a form of systematic aggression that is embedded in the coloniality of power. -- FARID HAFEZ, WILLIAMS COLLEGE, USA In this exceptional new book, Ali Kassem offers rare and important insights into the lives of hijabi women in the ex-French colony of Lebanon. Through listening to everyday experiences of Islamophobia, this book masterfully engages the decolonial lens to articulate a principled and urgent account of coloniality in the Muslim World. * KIMBERLY BRAYSON, PROFESSOR OF CRITICAL JURISPRUDENCE, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER, UK * This book skillfully demonstrates how anti-Muslim racism thrives in contexts of coloniality. Through rich ethnographies revealing the lived experiences of visibly Muslim women in homes, offices, shops and streets across Lebanon, Ali Kassem craftily interprets how everyday modalities of oppression and exclusion lead to erasure, while attempts to challenge this othering are mostly conducive to dissonance. * MONA HARB, PROFESSOR OF URBAN STUDIES AND POLITICS, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT, LEBANON *

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Ali Kassem is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore, Singapore. He obtained his PhD from the University of Sussex, UK. Ali was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, UK and an early career fellow with the Arab Council for Social Sciences funded through the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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