ERC Starting Grant · 2025
This project analyses how Muslim women’s hair shapes everyday intimate lifeworlds, processes of social transformation, and new religious identities in contemporary Egypt, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. In so doing, it will turn the global contemporary headscarf debate on its head. By shifting the paradigm from the veil as a marker of inter alia religiosity, HAIR examines how the attitudes and practices of Muslim women towards their hair condition religious norms and social expectations. Hair itself remains a neglected theme, despite being central to issues of identity, beauty and processes of individualisation. Even so, there is much contention concerning how Muslim women wear their…
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