Honor Killings
In: World policy journal: WPJ, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 70-76
ISSN: 1936-0924
Author and columnist Rafia Zakaria critiques the coverage of honor crimes in the West. If the project of honor-crime storytelling is to bring about a moral shift in communities, then the naming-and-shaming model of journalism has failed. Instead, stories need to be directed toward deeper, more contextualized narratives that unlock the how and why of these crimes.