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Friday Links — June 12, 2009

Friday Links — June 12, 2009

Last updated on: June 12, 2009 at 12:00 am by fatemeh

Friday Links — June 12, 2009 2009-06-12T00:00:40-04:00 fatemeh

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Dr. Zahra Rahnavard threatens to file a complaint against President Ahmadinejad. More coverage on Dr. Rahnavard here, here, and here.

Changing clothing mores in Baghdad.

Spain is considering removing religious symbols from public, which really means another hijab ban. Via Islam in Europe.

Women in Lebanon are battling for their citizenship rights.

A district in Amsterdam plans on beginning a program against forced marriage and worries about marriage immigration.

The Family Protection Center in Jeddah needs more protection.

A prominent political party in Malaysia wants the non-governmental organization Sisters in Islam condemned as “haram.” Other parties have issued a statement against the party for its actions.

A Dubai bank has begun offering specialized services for female customers.

Self-immolation in Afghanistan isn’t helping anyone.

A Saudi judge says that women should be allowed to drive.

A mosque in Toledo, Ohio, has elected a female president to run things. Via Euro-Islam.

On the toll that divorce is taking on Emirati society.

The New York Times profiles Dubai’s most notorious sex therapist.

Daily News profiles artist Marwa Adel, while the New York Times profiles artists Asma Ahmed Shikhoh and Negar Ahkami.

ArabComment interviews activist Rana Husseini.

AltMuslimah looks at the Doha Debates and a new television station.

Police in Kashmir are getting antsy about those protesting the rape and murder of two Kashmiri women, and are treating their deaths as murders. Time has more on the situation, during which a female separatist, Asiya Andrabi, has been detained.

Hamas gets into matchmaking.

The Ahmadiyya Muslims Women’s Association in Ghana has organized its 28th annual regional conference.

Saudi Jeans has a few words about the leaked photo of the Saudi Education Minister, while Improvisations has a few words about her administration of girls’ exercise programs (or lack thereof). The Washington Post gets a few words in, too.

A Christian woman wears “Muslim” clothes and adopts “modest Muslim” habits for a year. It might surprise you that walking with “arms glued to her sides” is considered modest. (eyeroll) Via Hijab Style.

Nuseiba reacts to Obama’s speech and my thoughts on it. So does alternarrative and Marieme Helie Lucas.

Home-based businesses work well for Saudi women. More here.

A bunch of male politicians talk about the hijab. More here.

Malaysian women have a chance at being Shariah judges if they have the qualifications.

Time looks at Iran’s “marriage crisis” and how it will affect the upcoming elections, while the BBC looks at how women are influencing the elections.

Arab News debates whether women who are the victims of photo blackmailing should be punished. Because blackmail isn’t punishment enough? Via TalkIslam.

On Muslimah proms! Via Hijab Style.

epiphanies also discusses the Doha Debates.

Muslim women who wish to marry non-Muslim men come to Taj Hargey. Via Euro-Islam.

After Lebanon’s latest election, The Philadelphia Enquirer examines the difficulty Lebanese women have entering politics.

My eyes can’t roll themselves hard enough. Instead of focusing on this young woman’s accomplishments, The Mirror launches into a voyeuristic and Orientalist focus on her father and his wives.

Female artists from Saudi Arabia and Italy will launch a joint exhibit in Rome.

The Global Post looks at Morocco’s family law reform, while The National examines aspiring female Moroccan politicians. More here.

A European court found Turkey’s court system breached human rights by failing to protect a woman and her mother from her husband.

On the progression of girls’ education in Saudi Arabia.

Muslim women are encouraged to get into British politics.

The Arizona Republic discusses women-only gyms.

Shirin Ebadi has written President Ahmedinejad to demand a removal of the lock on the Human Rights Defense Center.

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