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“I was immediately struck by the work’s graphic power . . . and its potential for a two-sided reading. Did it represent an armed opposition to fundamentalism or a kind of fundamentalist chic? Was it resistant to or complicit with conservative religious conventions? That ambiguity is where I continue to locate the power of Shirin’s work. She’s able to find the potential for power and poetry in Islam as well as in resistance to traditional roles and fundamentalist restriction…” 4
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