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January 2014

January 20, 2014

The Women that Need Saving: A Reflection on Lila Abu-Lughod’s “Do Muslim Women Need Saving?”

My mother belongs to the Zapotec region of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico. She is one...

November 2013

November 26, 2013

Review: Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

Editor’s note: Many of us at MMW have previously cited Lila Abu-Lughod’s 2002 article “Do...

November 04, 2013

Survival and Shame in “Corona” by Bushra Rehman

“Being free from shame is a beautiful freedom” Corona is Bushra Rehman’s riveting first novel....

October 2013

October 30, 2013

Take Off Your Veil to Rock the World

The daughter of a close friend recently turned 10, and I went to a children’s...

October 24, 2013

What Should We Make of the Malala Issue?

Editor’s note: Malala Yousafzai has been extensively covered in media lately, and several MMW writers wanted...

October 08, 2013

“Snow White: An Islamic Tale” Reviewed

Terrified screams rip through a dark forest. Ghostly eyes leer and skeletal branches attack an...

September 2013

September 09, 2013

“Cinderella: An Islamic Tale” Reviewed

Pink princess toy cameras. Pink princess wallets. Pink princess magic meal time cutlery. Pink princess...

September 03, 2013

Book Review: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Like Khaled Hosseini’s two earlier novels, The Kite Runner (2003) and A Thousand Splendid Suns...

August 2013

August 20, 2013

An Interview with “Haldol and Hyacinths” author Melody Moezzi

I recently read Melody Moezzi’s new memoir, Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life. In the...

June 2013

June 19, 2013

Breaking Down Stereotypes: Somali Women Always Agents of History

Recently, the Huffington Post re-published an Associated Press article on Sufi resurgence in Somalia. Following...

June 03, 2013

Book Review: The Honey Thief

“When I sleep, I dream like a Hazara” (The Honey Thief, p. 6). The Honey...

May 2013

May 22, 2013

Muslim Women in Development Literature

I recently came across a publication by Cordaid, a Dutch development organisation, called "Looking for That...

May 09, 2013

Review – Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World

Sex and the Citadel is a collection of stories by Shereen El Feki, who spent...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

The Mother and the Motherland in Arab Literature

Moroccan novelist Mohammed Berrada’s Lu’bat al Nisyan (The Game of Forgetting, 1987) begins with “In...

April 03, 2013

Toddler Tales: Review and Giveaway

This post was originally posted at wood turtle's blog. Two years ago, Mohsina Nosarka contacted...

April 01, 2013

Nahdet Masr: Woman, Sphinx, and the Question of Modernity

In Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soeuif’s novel, The Map of Love, there is a scene that...

March 2013

March 25, 2013

Sisters Magazine Review

When I volunteered to write a review of the monthly magazine Sisters for MMW last month, I...

February 2013

February 18, 2013

Gardens of Water: Teacher’s Guide

This post was written by guest contributor Rahela Choudhury, whose initial review of Gardens of...

February 06, 2013

Book Review: Lajja, by Taslima Nasrin

I have been hearing about Taslima Nasrin from the time I was a child. The...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

Book Review: Sophia Al-Maria’s “The Girl Who Fell To Earth”

The Girl who Fell to Earth is the coming-of-age story of a self-described “Qatarican” (Qatari/American)...

January 08, 2013

Book Review: Gardens of Water

This post was written by guest contributor Rahela Choudhury, and contains spoilers about the book. ...

December 2012

December 18, 2012

Muslim Women in Amy Waldman’s The Submission

Amy Waldman’s The Submission is a novel that struggles to tell “a post-9/11 story” with...

December 03, 2012

Stories of South Asian Women in Heartbeats: The Izzat Project

At Muslimah Media Watch, many of our posts are critical of the way Muslim women...

November 2012

November 13, 2012

French Magazine Le Point’s Shameless Headline

France is and will always be my special soapbox, so I guess I shouldn’t be...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

Book Review: The Islamophobia Industry

Nathan Lean’s book The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims is a...

October 17, 2012

Half the Sky Documentary Reviewed

At the beginning of the month, PBS aired a four-hour film version of Nicholas Kristof...

September 2012

September 27, 2012

Book Review: Islam in the Hinterlands

Islam in the Hinterlands: Muslim Cultural Politics in Canada is a recent book that looks...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Rebels By Accident: Telling Muslim Girls’ Stories in Young Adult Fiction

“I don’t think there’s ever been a time in my life when I wanted to...

August 21, 2012

Book Review – Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality

This review was originally published at Muslim Views. Research in the areas of Islamic and...

July 2012

July 11, 2012

Censorship and contemporary Hausa literature

A recent post on the now dead phenomenon of Onitsha market literature and efforts to...