Hissa Helal (or Hilal) was the woman who, wearing a burqa, made it to the final round of the Abu Dhabi TV show Million’s Poet by delivering a poem against Muslim preachers “who sit in the position of power” but are “frightening” people with their fatwas, or religious edicts, and “preying like a wolf” on [...]
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Last week, I wrote about the Abu Dhabi TV show Million’s Poet, in which Hissa Helal (or Hilal) had made it to the final round of the program by delivering a poem against Muslim preachers “who sit in the position of power” but are “frightening” people with their fatwas, or religious edicts, and “preying like [...]
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A Saudi woman is receiving a lot of publicity for using poetry to attack radical Muslim clerics. (See this article in Gender Across Borders from last week.) In 2006, the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage started a television show along the lines of “American Idol.” However, rather than have singing, the show (called [...]
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