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Friday Links — March 26, 2010

Friday Links — March 26, 2010

Last updated on: March 26, 2010 at 12:00 am by fatemeh

Friday Links — March 26, 2010 2010-03-26T00:00:52-04:00 fatemeh

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Salam alaikum, readers! It’s been awhile, but we’re back to our regular Friday links! I’m still a little jet-lagged, so there may be stories missing. As always, if you see a news story about Muslim women that isn’t on our links, feel free to post it in the comments!

A judge at Riyadh Summary Court has ridiculed calls for the construction of extra floors just for women at the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

elan speaks with Maria Ebrahimji about working in the media.

Women activists in New Delhi staged a demonstration against a cleric who spoke against Muslim women’s participation in politics.

Female Iraqi soldiers face hostility and resistance from their male counterparts.

Hissa Hilal, the only female contestant on The Millions Poet, criticizes the religious establishment in her latest poem. More coverage here.

The Voice of America examines how European Muslim women work on fashionable wardrobes while the entire continent tells them what to wear.

Protesters in Yemen support a law that would make the minimum marriage age 17, and are agitating lawmakers to hurry up and pass it already. More from the BBC.

Al Masry Al Youm takes a look at Egypt’s Ideal Mother competition.

Sisters in Islam is targeted once again as Muslim activists filed a lawsuit asking the organization to remove the word “Islam” from its name.

A report by the World Bank said that life after marriage is one of the obstacles that raises unemployment rates among Egyptian women compared to their male counterparts.

The Australian notes that a new push for Shariah law in Australia would hurt Australian Muslim women.

Samia Rahman examines the world of Muslim women in Ecuador.

Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, wife of the Emir of Qatar, said that Gulf women must use their ability for innovation to work for the improvement of society.

Egypt’s Cinema Culture Center celebrated International Woman’s Day this month by screening five films by female filmmakers from the Iranian Makhmalbaf family.

Nel Hedayat travels to her birthplace of Afghanistan and reflects on the experience.

The Economist thinks that women are the ones really holding back women’s progress.

The Montreal Mirror profiles Meryem Saci.

Kristin Halvorsen, the Norwegian Socialist Left’s (SV) Minister of Education, says the government will not be imposing a ban on wearing a hijab in school.

Leila Ahmed believes that Muslim women’s activism in the U.S. has increased.

The Hindu profiles the movie Shifting Prophesy, which examines the emergence of a Muslim Women’s Movement in Tamil Nadu.

InFocus remembers Aminah Assilmi.

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