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Publication Date
2013
Document Type
Video
Abstract
Just a Piece of Cloth is a 34-minute documentary that unravels stereotypes perpetuated in the US about Muslim women. The video features four San Francisco Bay Area Muslim women from diverse backgrounds as they talk about what hijab, the traditional Muslim head covering, means to them and how it affects their daily lives. With humor, seriousness, and candor they speak from personal experience about this often controversial garment. Despite their unique stories, universal human questions lie just beneath the surface: What boundaries define me? How do I travel across those boundaries to be true to myself, my community, and my faith? How do I transform the stories that limit my potential?
Keywords
hijab, Muslim women, headscarf, cultural stereotypes
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Department
Linguistics and Language Development
Recommended Citation
Rosemary Henze. "Just a Piece of Cloth" Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity (2013).
Transcription of Film with Timecodes
Comments
Edited by Shirley Thompson; Music by Aswat Arab Music Ensemble; Production was supported by San José State University; San Francisco Film Society; and Open Meadows Foundation.
This documentary won a "Making a Difference" award at the Toronto Community Film Festival in 2014.
The website for the documentary includes details about the women in the video and the musicians. It also includes some suggested lesson plans and a facilitator’s guide: https://www.justapieceofcloth.com/