Ugliness

How do power and beauty join forces to determine who is considered ugly? What role does that ugliness play in fomenting hatred? Moshtari Hilal, an Afghan-born author and artist who lives in Germany, has written a touching, intimate, and highly political book. Dense body hair, crooked teeth, and big Hilal uses a broad cultural lens to question norms of appearance—ostensibly her own, but in fact, everyone’s. She writes about beauty salons in Kabul as a backdrop to the U.S. invasion of... Voir plus