Islam in Britain: Citizen Khan’s Alia: How the hijab got sexy

Thursday 4 October 2012

Citizen Khan’s Alia: How the hijab got sexy

Citizen Khan’s Alia: How the hijab got sexy - Comment - Voices - The Independent opinion piece: "BBC1’s Citizen Khan has received complaints not least for suggesting that Pakistani households are headed by swindling, male chauvinists who keep women under their yoke. But the production team hit the nail on the head with personalities like Alia, played by Bhavna Limbachia."

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Gary R. Bunt is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David; Principal Investigator for the ESRC funded Digital British Islam project; Co-Investigator for the CHANSE funded Digital Islam Across Europe project.

Prof. Bunt's book Hashtag Islam: How Cyber Islamic Environments are Transforming Religious Authority was published in 2018. A new book, Islamic Algorithms, is out in May 2024.

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