Word: maleness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...latest project for his cousin is not another bar, however, but a mosque that is being privately funded. "Yes, people are surprised that a woman has been chosen, because some think that Islam is all about male power," says Fadillioglu, who aligns herself with the liberal side of the faith. "There is nothing about covering in the book," she explains, when quizzed about why many Muslim women here do not cover up and are passionate in their freedom not to do so, while other women, including the Prime Minister's wife, are equally insistent on wearing a head scarf...
...interiors by Sami Hayek (brother of Hollywood's Salma) was having breakfast at the laid-back Assk café, right on the waterfront, with her friend Lerna Tutunciyan, 29, who works as a production assistant. Talk turned to head scarves, a particularly thorny issue given Turkish history. (While the traditional male Islamic headgear, the fez, was banned by law in 1925, the head scarf had simply fallen out of use.) Yesilada, who loves to mix Marc Jacobs and Gucci with TopShop pieces, thinks that head scarves should be tolerated. "After all, I wear hats. But I get concerned when...
...parents, though, would disagree. When he told his mother, she told him modestly that he has “great genes, so it’s better to have more of [James] out there than random other people,†he recalls.In quiet, but in numbers, Harvard male undergrads are making the trek out. “Every single guy I’ve ever told that I did it has said ‘Oh that’s so stupid!’ And then in private ask me about how to get involved...
Deep Springs is an two-year all-male liberal arts college guided by the precepts of “academics, labor, and self-governance,†according to the school’s Web site. Given its rigorous application process of seven essays plus a four-day visit and interview, each entering class consists of only 12 men. There are four to six professors in residence who teach classes of approximately four students each. Pupils hire and fire their own faculty and work 20 hours a week at jobs ranging from working cattle to cooking food for the group...
...final course drop forms are dutifully submitted, finalizing the class roster: 45 percent Jewish, 18 percent Asian, 100 percent male. The tribe has spoken...