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Friday Links — November 5, 2010

Friday Links — November 5, 2010

Last updated on: November 5, 2010 at 12:00 am by fatemeh

Friday Links — November 5, 2010 2010-11-05T00:00:44-04:00 fatemeh

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A Malaysian court ruled that “Sisters in Islam” could use its name, rejecting a complaint by religious activists that the title was confusing to Muslims.

News Blaze profiles Jezima Ismail, a co-founder of Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum in Sri Lanka. More about her from Daily News.

Al-Ahram Weekly examines Europe’s problem with the veil.

Turkey’s military snubs its first lady. More from the BBC.

The Washington Post explains how a foiled bomb plot deeply affected a group of Virginia housewives.

The women who survived Bosnia’s rape camps are not down with Angelina Jolie’s latest movie. More from The Independent and My Sinchew.

Young Muslim women in Bihar, India, are getting a taste of politics.

Today’s Zaman asks whether Merve Kavakçı will return to Turkish parliament now that the headscarf ban has relaxed.

Lauren Booth link dump! Daily Mail, Mail & Guardian, The Guardian, and Mail Online.

In Nigeria, the group The Muslim Rights Concern has warned political parties in the country against fielding women for the highest posts at both the presidential and governorship levels. Not so concerned with Muslim women’s political rights, are we?

The Aucklander profiles The Fatimah Foundation, a non-profit organization that offers support and counseling to Muslim women.

Muslim community leaders and doctors have stressed the need to encourage Muslim women to join the nursing profession.

Muslim women in Kitchener, Canada, attend a workshop to encourage civic engagement.

CNN asks why sexual harassment is so rampant in Egypt.

More hijab tourism!

A Kurdish love story moves the Rome Film Festival. Meanwhile, an Indian film exposes violence against tribal women.

In India, the Thiruvallur district launches Muslim Women’s Aid Society.

A Nigerian senator is trying to marry an under-aged girl, and the country’s court system is not helping her.

More on the Women’s Voices Now film festival “Voices of Muslim Women.”

The Guardian provides transcripts of an interview with Roshonara Choudry, the woman who stabbed British representative Stephen Timms.

The Express Tribune discusses rape in Pakistan.

Australia’s Brimbank Muslim women’s leadership group is readying a book titled What a Muslim Woman Looks Like.

Iranian officials deny that Sakineh Ashtiani is in immediate danger of being executed.

A conference on Muslim women that highlighted issues of abuse and women’s rights was so poorly attended, someone wrote about it. Indeed.

A new survey reports very high levels of child malnutrition in Yemen’s conflict-hit northern governorate of Saada.

elan magazine profiles artist Shereen Audi.

Pakistani Scholar Dr. Hina Siddiqui won the best “Oral Presentation Award” in the 11th Eurasia conference on Chemical Sciences.

A Malaysian study shows that polygyny makes for unhappy families.
Nesrine Malik writes about Saudi Arabia’s Miss Morality pageant.

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