Houston Lecture: Splendors of the Fatimid Court

I don’t normally post Kickstarter appeals, but Wendy is a dear friend, and I am a huge fan of He Who Burns. ANIKAI DANCE INDIA TOUR 2011 by Wendy Jehlen — Kickstarter. ANIKAI Dance Company is embarking on the MOST EXTENSIVE TOUR OF INDIA by a US dance company since 1926 when Ruth St. Denis took her Denishawn Dancers. For the people of India to see physically strong, powerful women (and one man!) take the stage and perform viscerally charged, athletic choreography will be a cultural ground-breaking of enormous proportion. ANIKAI has been invited to tour seven cities across India…

Beautiful and Islamic: the new look on the catwalk – News, Fashion – The Independent. “Islam has a really amazing definition of beauty,” she says. “Hijab is about how a woman can be beautiful without placing overt emphasis on her sexuality. In western society it’s quite difficult to separate the two. I design clothes that are beautiful in the way that women find each other beautiful.” Tajima made a name for herself amongst fellow Muslim fashionistas through her blog Style Covered, which receives about 2,000+ hits a day from women looking for tips on how to look good in hijab.…