Shady Sobhy
Woman and Media 2017
Post 5
Muslim Woman Artist vs the Terror and Fear of Afghanistan
In the streets of Iran was born Shamsia Hassani. A woman and a Muslim who should have had her voice oppressed found a way to come out and express herself. She became one of Afghanistan’s first female street artists. She joined the KABUL ART PROJECT of Contemporary Art from Afghanistan. This is where she had a platform to fight for the rights of Muslim woman. A fight that showed that behind the veil of hijab there are strong and ambitious woman. It was only recently that some support for the arts started being accepted in that part of the world. Twelve years ago each artistic work was prohibited by the Taliban under penalty of death. Still to this day artists find themselves in dangerous situations caused by their work and find little acceptance and support especially if the art is coming from a woman. That is showing the world that even with limitation that are still able to accomplish amazing art. The Kabul art project is supporting Contemporary Afghan Art across the borders. This is something that helps artist come together and show their work with out worrying about borders. The fact that we do not even know of any woman artists is we because we never stop and think “how things are in the world has been conditioned-and often falsified-by the way the most important questions are posed. We tend to take it for granted that there really is an East Asian Problem, a Poverty Problem, a Black Problem and a Woman Problem”. (Linda Nochlin ) The idea of history and the story being only told by the victor is slowly but surly changing. “There’s more everything. And there’s also a lot of tragedy. Women are doing a lot of in-between work—combining paintings, objects, installation, performance. And a lot of photography”.( MacAdam ). Woman of all colors and races are speaking up. Shamsia is a Muslim women that in many way represents my mom and all the woman I have seen growing up. They are strong they are fearless but they have no way of speaking about their stories because of the stigma the society puts on them. It is not in the Quran and it is not in Islam that one should control and limit the rights of woman. It is one of the biggest and unfair agendas that main stream media tries to spread the negative image of Islam.
Work Cited
Linda Nochlin Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
MacAdam, Barbara A. “Where the Great Women Artists Are Now.” Art News. 1 Feb. 2007. Web. 1 May 2017.
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