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"""From Ms. Marvel to Muslim lives on television and in fashion magazines, Pop Islam provides a captivating account of the paradoxes, complexity, and hybridity of modern Muslim identities and their echoes in popular media. A must read!""—Sahar Khamis, author of Islam Dot Com ""By drawing out the ways in which representation can overcome stereotypes, or just reinforce them, Rosemary Pennington places the challenge of diversity in an immediate and urgent context. We see the unexpected vulnerabilities, the persistent rigidities, the occasional comedy and the undeniable tragedies of America's Muslims, a minority as diverse and confusing as the country they belong to—a country that struggles to understand its Muslims for reasons of global histories, structural possibilities, and even the terms upon which America constructs its sense of national self.""—Haroon Moghul, author of Two Billion Caliphs"

"""From Ms. Marvel to Muslim lives on television and in fashion magazines, Pop Islam provides a captivating account of the paradoxes, complexity, and hybridity of modern Muslim identities and their echoes in popular media. A must read!""—Sahar Khamis, author of Islam Dot Com"

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Rosemary Pennington is Associate Professor of Journalism in Miami University's Department of Media, Journalism & Film. She is editor with Hilary E. Kahn of On Islam: Muslims and the Media and editor with Michael Krona of The Media World of ISIS.

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