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November 2015

November 24, 2015

Book review: Jewels of Allah by Nina Ansary

When I first heard the title of Dr. Nina Ansary’s latest book, Jewels of Allah,...

October 2015

October 15, 2015

Book Review: Faïza Zerouala’s Voices Behind the Veil

I am apparently on a book review kick for MMW, with my last post being...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

Making Sense of “the Other”: A Review of Without Shame by Katherine Russell

I am not going to lie, I started reading Without Shame with some skepticism -...

September 17, 2015

Review: Faithfully Feminist

I really love all that feelgood interfaith stuff, so I was excited to read Faithfully...

September 07, 2015

Review of Snow in Amman: An Anthology of Short Stories

This post is crossposted at the writer's blog. Snow in Amman: An Anthology of Short...

September 03, 2015

Muslim Female Superheroes

I spent much of my childhood and teenage years obsessed with anime and comics. Growing...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

Pick Up Artists: Veiling Misogyny with Islam

*Trigger Warning: Rape, Sexualized Violence, Misogyny* Toronto boasts a wonderfully diverse population. It is probably...

August 18, 2015

Review: In the Skin of a Jihadist

In the Skin of A Jihadist by Anne Erelle (not her real name) is...

July 2015

July 21, 2015

Review of Brick Walls by Saadia Faruqi

Brick Walls by Saadia Faruqi is a collection of seven short stories set in Pakistan,...

June 2015

June 11, 2015

A Letter to Mona Eltahawy on “Headscarves and Hymens”

Dear Mona, Some of my fellow Muslimah Media Watch writers put together a roundtable about...

June 02, 2015

Review of Loving You Wasn’t Enough

Warning for Spoilers! Loving You Wasn't Enough is a book about an unexpected love...

May 2015

May 14, 2015

A Roundtable on Mona Eltahawy’s Headscarves and Hymens

We will soon have a full review of Mona Eltahawy's Headscarves and Hymens: Why the...

May 12, 2015

Do Women have a Voice in the Qur’an? Review of “Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture.”

I started reading “Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture” by Georgina L. Jardim a...

March 2015

March 02, 2015

Review – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s Refusing the Veil

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s Refusing the Veil, part of the Provocations series by Biteback publishing, is a...

December 2014

December 17, 2014

Erotica by Muslim Women for Muslim Women

When I attempted entering “Islamic erotica” in a search engine, I was not sure what...

December 08, 2014

Peace in Aloneness: Muslim Women in the Ivory Tower

For the last month, I have been looking into the literature on discrimination in academia,...

November 2014

November 10, 2014

Book Review: She Wore Red Trainers

I was expecting a review copy of the book She Wore Red Trainers in my...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Book Review: Muslim American Women on Campus by Shabana Mir

As an American Muslimah who graduated from an American university in 2004, I was very...

September 29, 2014

Book Review: Sin is a Puppy that Follows You Home

Reading Hajiya Balaraba Ramat Yakubu's Sin is a Puppy That Follows You Home was to...

June 2014

June 19, 2014

Sandcastles and Snowmen: When Personal Stories Become Tools for Support and Education

In her recent book, Sandcastles and Snowmen, Egyptian writer Sahar El-Nadidelivers what she calls "a...

June 17, 2014

Book Review: The Hijab of Cambodia

This post was originally published at Aquila Style. Stories of gender-based violence, especially in times...

June 10, 2014

Book Review: Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition

Content note: This post includes discussions of domestic violence and of scholarly attempts to justify...

May 2014

May 15, 2014

Book Review: Salaam, Love

When Love, InshAllah, edited by Ayesha Mattu and Nura Masnavi, was initially published two years...

April 2014

April 22, 2014

Book Review: “Normal Calm” by Hend Hegazi

According to statistics provided by RAINN, the United States-based Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network,...

April 17, 2014

Book Review: I Am the Beggar of the World

Last month, I looked at Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy’s work profiling Afghan women poets...

March 2014

March 26, 2014

Words and Images of Afghan Women Poets

Earlier this month, Slate featured a photography-poetry project, “The Secret Lives of Afghanistan’s Female Poets.”...

March 17, 2014

Rediscovering Noor Inayat Khan and the Good Muslim

I will confess that I first became aware of Noor Inayat Khan, also known as...

March 04, 2014

How “Do Muslim Women Need Saving?” Saved Me

“This book is about what lies behind such deceptively simple responses to problems we think...

February 2014

February 27, 2014

Book Review: “Painted Hands” by Jennifer Zobair

I didn't know what to expect when I first picked up Jennifer Zobair's debut novel,...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

Book Review: “Reclaim Your Heart” by Yasmin Mogahed

A number of initiatives have been launched in the last few years to engage Muslim...