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Friday Links — September 25, 2009

Friday Links — September 25, 2009

Last updated on: September 25, 2009 at 12:00 am by fatemeh

Friday Links — September 25, 2009 2009-09-25T00:00:03-04:00 fatemeh

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A British Muslim Women’s Group hosted a training seminar for women at the Deeplish Community Center.

According to a study by the World Bank and Turkey’s State Planning Organization, Turkey needs to increase the proportion of women in the workforce in order to accelerate economic growth.

A Malaysian Islamic court has sentenced a young unmarried Muslim couple to lashes after they were caught trying to have sex in a car.

The “Welcome to School” initiative will encourage girls to attend school without fear in the Swat region of Pakistan.

The National reports on child brides in Yemen.

How “imported values” are failing Afghan women.

Saudi Arabia plans to open a new co-ed university. More here.

Journalists working for Egypt’s largest broadsheet, Al-Ahram, have called for the dismissal of a fellow writer, Hala Mustafa, for meeting with the Israeli ambassador.

Nuseiba reflects on Chesler vs. Wolf.

One Saudi woman’s perspective on polygyny.

More on headscarves at the taekwondo world championship.

Saudi women have a hand in designer menswear.

More headscarf discrimination, this time by hoteliers in the U.K.

AltMuslim responds to the debate around burqinis in public pools.

Studies on exercise and women in the Gulf presented at an international conference on women and fitness.

There’s a new site for Muslim women and girls in town! Welcome to web, sisters!

Local Muslim women in Dallas, Texas helped feed the hungry during Ramadan.

Hundreds of women in India became ill after using tainted henna.

There’s a burqa recession in Swat.

The U.K.’s first regional network leadership program exclusively for Muslim women was launched in Leeds.

An internet cafe in Baghdad caters solely to women.

CNN profiles Rabia Iqbal, who counsels domestic abuse survivors.

elan explores exercise options for Muslim women.

Iranian police are warning shopkeepers against using female mannequins, among other things.

More on the lawsuit against Abercrombie & Fitch.

Muslim female activists in South Africa lodged an appeal to allow more women to attend the Eid prayer see success, despite the efforts of certain imams to keep women away from prayers.

AltMuslimah discusses gender segregation and separation.

The Globe and Mail interviews a female Afghan police officer.

Third annual convention of Bhartiya Mahila Muslim Andolan (BMMA) will be organized in Lucknow, India.

In Belgium, the Forum of Islamic Organizations (FISO) says that it has received dozens of complaints from girls about the headscarf ban.

Rachel Cooke wonders whether Yemen is the worst place in the world to be a woman.

A judge in Spain has refused to accept a woman’s testimony because she wears the niqab.

Morocco’s only female mayor is hitting back at political opponents trying to unseat her.

The National looks at how western feminism puts pressure on Arab women.

Muslim women in India feel disproportionately oppressed.

Lebanon is attempting to remove domestic violence cases from religious courts.

Ruling Islamist parties in Malaysia encourage women to work.

WBFO radio in New York interviews the organizer of an event to dispel myths about domestic violence for Muslim women.

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