Month: May 2012

View Photo Gallery — Challenging the West’s view of Arab women: Lalla Essaydi, whose portraits of women in Islamic cultures appear in a new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, questions the barriers...

Washington post By DeNeen Brown, Friday, May 4, 4:42 PM The young girl growing up in a harem in Morocco is sitting alone in an abandoned house surrounded by olive trees. For one month, the girl will speak to no one and be spoken...