Your exotic, your victim, your terrorist – Visual storytelling to challenge the western stigma of Arab women in areas of conflict

Your exotic, your victim, your terrorist is a mixed media project that aims to challenge the western stigma of Arab women in areas of conflict. The illustrations explore the resistance of Arab women in an ISIS dominated area from their private spaces. The project uses the same characteristics that fall under the stereotypical representations of Arab women in the British and American news sources to challenge the stigma of classifying these women as; the terrorist, the exotic, and/or the victim.