Authors

Lindsey Stephenson

 

Lindsey Stephenson is a doctoral candidate in the Near East Studies Department at Princeton University. She works primarily on modern history of the Gulf and Indian Ocean, and has published on Kuwaiti politics and society. She is Co-Editor of the Critical Currents in Islam Page.

ARTICLES BY Lindsey Stephenson

  • Mipsterz: A Peripheral Debate?

    Mipsterz: A Peripheral Debate?

    About a month ago, Mipsterz (that is, Muslim hipsters) released a video by one of their members entitled “Somewhere in America,” set to the tune of Jay Z’s song by the same name. The video features young Muslim American women “being themselves.” The video elicited a number of multifaceted reacti..

  • The Political Underpinnings of Kuwaiti Sectarian Polemics

    The Political Underpinnings of Kuwaiti Sectarian Polemics

    I am hesitant to write about sectarianism because I once heard that writing about divisions only increases awareness of them and deepens them. But regional commentators—and some international ones—seem to be writing about sects in the Middle East in a purely polemical manner. However, the Kuwait..