Word: masjid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mixture of hot, colorful spices. Director Mira Nair '79 used it in the title of her last feature film, "Mississippi Masala," because it alludes to her favorite themes of cultural fusion and displacement. And a lot of people can pronounce it. "When I made my first film, 'Jama Masjid Street Journal,'" says Nair, "people couldn't say the name and I hated that." Content to make mouths hiss and burn with "Mississippi Masala"'s pungent melange of African, Indian, and American identities, she prefers to leave tongues untwisted...
...Really Have a Choice: Muslim Women inthe Modern World--by Salwa Abdullah, Masjid AlQur'an; Pamel Taylor, master's degree candidate,HDS; Patricia Slechta, Boston University; AsyaAl-Lamke; and Eva Nelson-Mitchel '92. FreshmanUnion, Parlor Room...