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Friday Links — September 4, 2009

Friday Links — September 4, 2009

Last updated on: September 4, 2009 at 12:00 am by fatemeh

Friday Links — September 4, 2009 2009-09-04T00:00:54-04:00 fatemeh

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CNN shows us Nujood’s life after her divorce.

The Feminist School keeps us updated on imprisonments, releases, and an interview with Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani.

Al Jazeera highlights a Lebanese citizenship case that could affect whether Lebanese women pass their citizenship to their children.

Two police officers in Karachi have been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of three-year-old Sana. May Allah give her peace.

Islam Online is holding a blogging competition for Ramadan. Ladies, start your keyboards!

The National profiles editor and writer Rabina Khan.

Cycads writes about purdah and sexual segregation.

Natalia Antonova discusses honor violence and hymens.

Asharq Alawsat discusses the recent Hamas decision to require schoolgirls to wear headscarves.

Muslim Malaysian women in Thailand are taking charge in their communities.

Uzbekistan has placed a ban on headscarves. More here.

On the Mali marriage law. More here.

A college principal in Kashmir has been threatened with violence if he does not enforce headscarves on female students.

Beirut holds a conference on women and the digital future.

RH Reality Check discusses the “war on terror” and Muslim women.

How the French Burqa Ban has messed up French politics.

Christian and Muslim women in Liberia finish their peace seminar.

Turkey has began another scholastic year with a headscarf ban.

World Peace writes about technology and gender segregation.

Indigo Jo Blogs outlines some British feminist hawk concerns about Muslim women.

The Jakarta Post highlights how women’s bodies are used as battlefields.

A New Zealand woman was denied access to court because of her headscarf. More here.

Muslim women in Orissa, India, are using traditional embroidery as economic empowerment.

Jezebel reviews documentary Time for School 3, which follows an female Afghan student through her struggle for education.

Nayereh Tohidi explains the roles of women in the Iranian presidential elections.

Reuters wonders when France will receive a fatwa against forced marriages.

An Egyptian film that highlights women’s issues gets both criticism and applause.

In Oklahoma, white female converts are part of a huge growth in the Muslim population.

Mukhtar Mai appears on The Today Show.

AltMuslim weighs in on the Rifqa Bary case. More from the Orlando Sentinel.

Lubna Hussein speaks about her impending trial.

In Egypt, women who don’t wear a headscarf are becoming a marginalized minority.

Women and children are being targeted in Sudan’s southern states.

Iran has approved its first female cabinet minister since the 1979 Revolution. Politics Daily believes that this is a step backward.

Ms. Magazine reports on Yanar Mohammed’s “Underground Railroad” for Iraqi women.

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