Moshtari Hilal
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How do powerand beauty join forces to determine who is considered ugly? What role does thatugliness play in fomenting hatred? Moshtari Hilal, anAfghan-born author and artist who lives in Germany, has written a touching,intimate, and highly political book. Dense body hair, crookedteeth, and big Hilal uses a broad cultural lens to question norms ofappearance—ostensibly her own, but in fact, everyone’s. She writes about beautysalons in Kabul as a backdrop to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, Darwin’stheory of evolution, Kim Kardashian, and a utopian place in the shadow of hernose. With a profound mix of essay, poetry, her own drawings, and cultural andsocial history of the body, Hilal explores notions of repulsion and attraction,taking the reader into the most personal of realms to put self-image to thetest. Why are we afraid of ugliness?