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Friday Links – May 7, 20101

Friday Links – May 7, 20101

Last updated on: May 7, 2010 at 12:00 am by fatemeh

Friday Links – May 7, 20101 2010-05-07T00:00:35-04:00 fatemeh

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The International Muslim Organization for Women and Family in Jeddah says the organization is receiving a growing number of runaway girls and young women.

The Nation asks who murdered Benazir Bhutto.

The Associated Press reports on polygyny in France.

Hissa Hilal publishes a book on women’s Bedouin poetry about divorce.

Uzbek-British Hammasa Kohistani is the U.K.’s first Muslim Miss England.

FIFA has amended its earlier ban on headscarves–sort of. The Iranian women’s team can play with caps that cover their hair, but not their necks.

Jezebel highlights violence against women’s anti-violence posters in Turkey.

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health has cracked down on health officials who were involved in refusing to hire 44 qualified Saudi women nurses at King Abdullah Hospital.

The Media Line reports that Afghanistan is the worst country for mothers. The Huffington Post publishes a letter from one Afghan mother.

Tehran Bureau interviews Shirin Neshat about her movie Women Without Men.

A girl dies at a Saudi women’s school because the female staff would not allow male emergency technicians to help her. May Allah give her peace. This has set off a debate about female emergency technicians.

The Saudi Gazette interviews Muna Abusulayman.

Tajikistan deals with the face veil after banning headscarves in 2007.

Two female Kurdish rebels were among the dead after a fight with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. May Allah give them peace and justice.

Andeisha Farid has received the Vital Voices’ Entrepreneurial Achievement Award for her work building the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization.

The pot calls the kettle black.

The Washington Post explains Islamic feminism.

The Arab Times profiles Jordanian body builder Farah Malhass.

The National explains why Belgium’s ban on face veils isn’t really about face veils. The Guardian pipes up, too.

Kyrgyzstan sees a rise in women wearing the headscarf, but links it to Islamic fundamentalism.

A Muslim woman in northern Italy has been given a fine under anti-terrorism laws for wearing a face veil in public.

The Commission for Virtue and Prevention of Vice bans women from jogging in one Saudi Arabian town.

The U.K. has denied Iranian dissident Bita Ghaedi’s appeal for asylum. She fears she will be murdered upon returning to Iran.

A Washington, D.C., museum is hosting an exhibit by 13 female Turkish artists.

Women activists in Jordan criticized a new version of the personal status draft law prepared by the Chief Islamic Justice Department, describing it as a step backward for women in the country.

CNN examines how trafficked woman are treated in Iraq.

Bust looks at France’s proposed face veil ban.

The Daily Mail says that Yasmin Rahman, Advisor to the Ministry of Women Development, has described the state of women in Pakistan as “dire.”

The Hindustan Times reports that a Chechen woman wearing a face veil set off suspicions on a plane departing from Pune, India.

A female council member was killed in the Taliban’s latest bombing of Afghan provincial offices. May Allah give her peace and justice.

Muammar Ghaddafi’s son thinks women in Libya are 100% equal to men and waste state resources when they get married and stay home. O RLY?

A San Francisco appeals court has ruled that sheriff’s deputies did not violate a Muslim woman’s rights by forcing her to remove her headscarf in a courthouse holding cell.

Elham al Qasimi, the first Emirati woman to conquer the North Pole, writes about the experience.

In Nigeria, a Muslim women’s group backs a Nigerian senator who married an Egyptian minor.

An all-women team from the American University of Kuwait won the regional leg of the Microsoft Imagine Cup, a student technology competition.

Egypt has proposed a new anti-trafficking law, but many are unconvinced that this will end a common practice of poor Egyptian families selling their daughters to Gulf tourists for temporary marriages.

Muslims in Malawi are angered by government plans to ban polygamy.

Yemen News Agency reports that President Saleh believes women are important to the country’s development, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Arab News asks whether women should also be tried for blackmailing.

A non-Muslim reporter wears a headscarf for a day to see how other Russians react to her.

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