Behind the Veil: Introducing Maheen
March 9, 2009 by admin
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As Salaam Alaikum (peace be upon you)
Welcome to Behind The Veil! BTV is a new blog featured in Minority Dreams Magazine, created to give readers a glimpse of the world from the perspective of a young Muslim woman who sports a veil, a.k.a. hijab. Hijab is the Arabic term for “cover” or “to veil”.
Here you will find stories and commentary from the perspective of a twenty-something hijabi on a range of conventional, non-conventional, and downright crazy topics. My posts will be unique to me, and will not represent every individual who wears hijab.
I began wearing my hijab in my late teens so my experiences on the other side of the hijab are still fresh. I hope to use my familiarity from both sides to bring you new and thought provoking ideas every other week. Please subscribe to the RSS feed and feel free to leave comments or topic suggestions.
Peace.
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Maheen Siddiqi is a 23-year-old Southern California native and a recent Cal State University, Fullerton graduate with a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in Human Communication Studies. Her passions are law, politics and social commentary.
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I am really looking forward to your column. I tried to subscribe to the feed but I couldn’t. I have often been both reverent to the beauty of the Hijab and off put by historical and cultural inacracies of the tradition. I hope that this column will provide me with the honest and unfetered conversation about the issue that is too often pushed aside in politness as well as support those who choose the hijab which also is disrespected by many.