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Friday Links — June 6, 2008

Friday Links — June 6, 2008

Last updated on: January 21, 2012 at 2:30 pm by fatemeh

Friday Links — June 6, 2008 2012-01-21T14:30:33-04:00 fatemeh

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Holy crap! It’s June! Muslimah Media Watch would like to congratulate all of our readers who are graduating this month (or graduated next month). Including meeeeeeeeeeee! Congratulations, ladies (and gentlemen)!

• Muslim women involved in Al-Qaeda challenge the group’s disassociation with its female members. Via Ali Eteraz.

• French court grants a man an annulment from his wife. He got uppity and filed for an annulment because she wasn’t a virgin. Aftermath of the decision here.

• Meet a female director in Egypt who uses her camera to candidly explore the varied lives of women.

• The Daily Mail profiles a homeless woman who lives at Heathrow airport, and isn’t the only one. May Allah protect her.

• Canada gets its first Muslim Girl Guide Group.

• Afghan women are increasingly turning to art to express themselves.

• Sisters magazine & Ummah Foods surveyed Muslim women in the U.K. and published the results here. Via Ijtema.

• Hwaa Irfan talks about Muslim women’s sexuality.

• Bangladesh’s former prime minister Khaleda Zia began her corruption trial on Wednesday.

• Kiran Ansari talks about Muslims on the silver screen.

• The Earth Times examines how Moroccan women navigate both Islam and feminism.

• The Gazette speaks to local Muslim women in Colorado Springs about inequalities they see applied to their faith in things like mosque culture.

• Miss Conduct looks at fashion blogs for Muslim women. Plus, she gives us some link love!

• The New York Times follows U.S. women’s colleges as they recruit students in the Middle East.

• RadioFreeEurope examines the outcry after Turkey’s Diyanet published a list of “Dos & Don’ts” for women.

• T
he Muslimahs Speak Up! Blog Carnival deadline is fast approaching! You can submit through June 8. Go here to speak up! Go here for details!

• Turkish courts annul the decision to allow headscarves at universities.

• Dr. Hayat Sindi kicks major ass. Generally so, but specifically at an award ceremony in Saudi Arabia.

• A woman in Kabul, Afghanistan was killed by a bomb blast. May Allah give her peace.

• The number of women who commit suicide in Iraq is increasing, and has prompted Safiya al-Suhayl, an independent member of the Iraqi Parliament, to appeal for a national solution.

• Voice of America looks at Condolezza Rice’s “One Woman Initative,” which aims to support women’s empowerment in countries with large Muslim populations.

Singapore’s only Muslim women group plans to revamp itself to accommodate a changing constituency.

Najla Al Awadhi muses on the differences between the life of the prophet’s wife Khadijah and what modern-day Kuwaiti women live with in the wake of Kuwait’s latest election results.

The Guardian’s Riazat Butt writes about gender apartheid in Saudi Arabia and speaks with successful Saudi photographer Susan Baaghil.

Leila Hussein, mother of 17-year-old Rand that was murdered by her father, has been killed in Iraq. May Allah bring her peace. Via ArabComment.

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