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Friday Links — December 5, 2008

Friday Links — December 5, 2008

Last updated on: January 21, 2012 at 1:37 pm by fatemeh

Friday Links — December 5, 2008 2012-01-21T13:37:46-04:00 fatemeh

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The Times Online reports on Britain’s only Muslim women’s cycling club.

The Philadelphia Inquirer profiles Pray the Devil Back to Hell, a documentary about Muslim and Christian Liberian women joining together to stop Liberia’s civil war.

Amid backlash, Malaysian authorities back down on the yoga ban. More analysis from The Star Online and Sun2Surf.

On activism against violence against women in the Muslim community in South Africa.

The Muslim News reports on a conference addressing women in Islamic resistance.

Indian Muslims interviews Naish Hasan, who states that Muslim women need their own leadership.

Al-Ahram Weekly states that more and more Egyptian women are enrolling in business education courses to help them enrich their skill sets and local communities.

The Dubai Women’s Establishment held a forum in late November to encourage Emirati women to take up leadership roles.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says he wants more women in government.

Dr. A. Rashid Yassin Ebrahim justifies polygyny in rural areas for the Yemen Times. Did I mention that Dr. Ebrahim is a horticulturist?

Pakistan’s Daily Times reviews Women in Islam and the Middle East, edited by Ruth Roded.

Fantasia’s World condemns Egyptian housewives for making Egypt poor. Ouch. Via Global Online Voices.

Various Kurdish rights groups demonstrated against a law in Kurdish Parliament that allows polygyny. More on the law here.

Daily Star Egypt profiles Khaltet Fawzeya, an Egyptian film about a serial divorcer.

Middle East Online reviews the book The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie.

Two sisters were buried alive as they slept when a landslide hit their home in Malaysia. May Allah give them peace.

A non-governmental organization gives rural Egyptian women the tools to run for local political offices.

Turkey’s Gulsum Tatar wins a gold medal for women’s boxing.

Jordan gets its first all-female team of landmine clearers. More from AFP and IRIN.

Lobna Khairy writes about sexual harassment in Egypt for the American Chronicle.

Kenya’s Shakila Abdalla is the first woman from a Muslim majority area in the country to run for a seat in the Kenyan parliament.

Syria Today profiles painter Sara Shamma.

Lebanon’s The Daily Star reports more on the U.N. fund to eliminate violence against women.

The Washington Post relates the increase of Iraqi women driving despite dangerous conditions.

Current TV examines programs to help educate female genital cutting practitioners in Sierra Leone that aim to wean their economic dependence on the practice. Via Jezebel.

Hundreds of Muslim women take to the streets in Nepal to demonstrate against the treatment they receive after divorce.

On the International Fortnight on Crime Against Women in India.

Najla Al Awadi writes about empowering women through economic development in the U.A.E.

IslamOnline shares the activities of a support group for HIV-positive Muslim women in Ghana.

The Daily Orange examines Muslim women and headscarves on campus.

InsideDesi’s Seleena Lloyd doesn’t care much for Sarah Maple.

Islam in Europe announces that a Turkish-Dutch woman has won Miss Netherlands, Amsterdam’s honor violence hotline has received 84 calls this year, and a Dutch fashion designer and experimental artist collaborate in an attempt to depoliticize the burqa.

Al Arabiya reports on the U.N.’s denunciation of Iranian crackdowns on women’s rights activists.

Nuseiba’s Farah B talks about culture and identity in the diaspora.

Last Week, Queen Rania of Jordan won YouTube’s Visionary Award for her YouTube campaign (which we covered last year). Here is a clip of her acceptance speech. Via Jezebel.

The Nation writes reviews Pardis Mahdavi’s new book, Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution.

The New York Times‘ Nicholas Kristoff writes about the terrorism of acid attacks.

HijabTrendz interviews designer Kulsoom Kazmi.

The Guardian details the horrifically unabashed rise in honor killings in Iraq.

The Iranian government plans to set up bureaus designed to help people find marriage partners.

Queen Rania is everywhere: she’s now spearheading a campaign against corporal punishment in Jordanian schools.

The Australian National Imams Council condemned a recent study by the Islamic Women’s Welfare Council of Victoria that accused Muslim clerics of sanctioning domestic violence. More about the report here.

A real case of babies having babies.

Saudi businesswomen feel that providing hair stylists with contracts from the Ministry of Labour would give them more confidence in their jobs.

The LA Times profiles Egyptian poet Iman Bakry’s thoughts on Egypt’s political future.

The Guardian publishes Malalai Joya’s experience in the Afghan parliament the day she was thrown out.

Nadira Artyk describes her negotiation through Muslim and Uzbek identities. Via Tabsir.

MuslimMatters reports on the MANA conference’s initiative on marriage and the excesses of “hijab parties.”

The Feminist School reports on recent news of website filtering and executions of two women.

Iranian filmmaker Bahareh Hosseini’s “Afghan Girls Can Kick” explores positive themes surrounding Afghan girls’ involvement in soccer.

Iran’s Atousa Pourkashiyan has been awarded the Grandmaster title at the 38th Chess Olympiad in Germany.

WLUML links to a report that promotes women’s human rights through a strategic marriage contract in Morocco and the grilling of a Bangladeshi university for exonerating a professor accused of sexual harassment and the suspension of female students who complained about him.

The Iranian women’s handball team beat Uzbekistan in the Asian Women’s Handball Championships held in Bangkok.

Hijab Style profiles a new clothing company designed with Muslim women in mind.

Zahra Bahman writes about how traditional conservativism in Afghanistan continues to play itself out on women. Via ifeminists.

Hasan Mahmud writes about modern-day Sharia’s misinterpretation of women’s right to divorce. Via Progressive Muslima News.

A Muslim lawyer wins a lawsuit against her dickhead employer.

A Jordanian man is given seven years in prison for killing his sister.

Halima Ali writes about hajj and culture shock.

The AccoLade gets coverage in Middle East Online.

A nurse speaks about teenagers, hymens, and virginity.

Canadian troops’ efforts to improve women’s agency in Afghanistan and Afghans’ reactions.

Islam in Europe and ProgressiveIslam look at the EU’s ruling that headscarf bans are not a human rights violation.

Cycads discusses the governance of female sexuality by men in Malaysia.

On colorful fashions on Malaysia’s catwalks.

Ghada Abdel-Khader examines fashion and identity for Al-Ahram Weekly .

Turkey jails Kurdish activist Leyla Zana.

Global Voices Online has more about the murder of Heba and Nadine, which we covered yesterday.

Middle East Online reports on the increase of Iraqi policewomen.

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, an author, professor, and champion of women’s rights in the Middle East, died this week. May Allah grant her and her family peace.

Women’s eNews profiles Afghan journalist Farida Nekzad. Via ifeminists.

Islamfemina highlights a Jewish-Muslim Women’s Circle in Atlanta, Georgia.

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