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Friday Links — January 1, 2010

Friday Links — January 1, 2010

Last updated on: January 1, 2010 at 12:00 am by fatemeh

Friday Links — January 1, 2010 2010-01-01T00:00:58-04:00 fatemeh

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A recent Cairo conference suggests that the sexual harassment of women is becoming a pan-Arab phenomenon, according to Al Ahram.

Iran has barred single women from working for a state firm that operates a huge gas field and petrochemical plants on the shores of the Gulf.

Hurriyet Daily News reports that the former director of Boğaziçi University blames women for the lack of women in administrative roles. Uh…

The National profiles Sheikha Mozah as one of the people of the decade.

Ziba Mir-Hosseini discusses gender taboos that have been broken in post-election Iran. Via Iran Unfiltered.

Hijabtrendz interviews Hanan Turk.

A German court imprisoned a Kurdish man for life for ordering the “honor killing” of his own daughter after being told she had lost her virginity. Via Islam in Europe. More here.

The Iranian government has detained Shirin Ebadi’s sister in an attempt to stop her work.

In the Netherlands, a doctor turned away a woman because she wore a niqab. The doctor later apologized.

Bikya Masr interviews Ahdaf Soueif.

The Christian Science Monitor reports that Palestinian women are increasingly turning to skin-whitening creams.

Bangladesh has a huge potential for sending women workers abroad if they are provided proper training, according to The New Nation. This is good news…until you realize that “abroad” = Gulf countries, which are notorious for domestic worker abuse.

Iraqi women struggle to find work.

According to Today’s Zaman, women managers constitute 22.8% of the total top-level administrative staff of Turkey’s large private sector corporations.

Tulay Goren’s case marked the first time that prosecutors called on expert witnesses in an honor crime trial.

Bikya Masr gives us a brief history of modern sexual harassment in Egypt.

A campaign is being stepped up to ensure that women in Bahrain emerge from divorce with alimony, rightful custody of their children and a roof over their heads.

Elan looks at the Miss Palestine beauty contest.

The Muslim community in Dresden, Germany, will build a mosque to honor Marwa El Sherbini.

Gulf Weekly reports that Bahraini women still model themselves after women in Hollywood. Like everyone else in the world…

Organic Muslimah writes about Muslim dating in two parts.

Gothenberg University’s new dress code raises questions about whether it’s aimed specifically at Muslims.

Elan looks at the polgamy brouhaha brought about by Nadine Al Bedair’s article.

On unmarried women in Egypt.

A Muslim woman is claiming in a federal lawsuit that she was dismissed from the Atlanta Police Department’s civilian honor guard because she refused to remove her headscarf.

Gaza-based Palestinian Women’s Information and Media Center reports that 77% of Gazan women face violence of some kind.

Are there really “no good Muslim women”?

ThisDay looks at why maternal mortality is so high in parts of Nigeria.

Sixty-four percent of women in Jammu and Kashmir believe it is justified for a husband to beat his wife.

Macleans believes they’ve figured out why Egyptian women like niqab.

A state-level consultation of Muslim organizations in India has urged the Government to frame rural employment schemes that would benefit Muslim women also work from their home.

Daniel Pipes overreacts to hijab. Surprise.

Maryam Babangida dies of ovarian cancer. May Allah give her peace.

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