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June 2012

June 26, 2012

Book Review – Obama and the Middle East: The End of America’s Moment?

In Obama and the Middle East: The End of American’s Moment?, a new book by...

June 20, 2012

Book Review: More Than a Prayer

The title of Juliane Hammer’s new book American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

Book Review: G. Willow Wilson’s Alif the Unseen

Back in 2010, I was so excited for the chance to review G. Willow Wilson’s...

May 17, 2012

Book Review: The Good Muslim

This piece was written by Sarah Farrukh, and originally posted at altmuslimah. Written by Tahmima...

May 08, 2012

Book Review: Rughum & Najda by Samar Habib

Rughum & Najda by Samar Habib is a fictional love story set in ninth-century Baghdad....

May 01, 2012

Responsibility as Representatives: A Need for Honest Reflection

In our roundtable on the Foreign Policy “sex issue” I spoke about the responsibility one...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Some Issues with Foreign Policy’s “Sex Issue”: Part One

So I'm sure that pretty much everyone has, by now, seen Foreign Policy magazine's recent...

April 25, 2012

What it Means to be One of the 100 Most Influential People in the World

I spent the last weekend in Istanbul, having decided with my husband to escape the...

April 24, 2012

Getting to Know Amina Wadud: Review of A Jihad for Justice

A couple of weeks ago Kecia Ali, Juliane Hammer, and Laury Silvers presented the e-book...

April 10, 2012

Shahrazad and Dhat al Himmah: Epics, Storytellers and Warrior Women

The Thousand and One Nights is by far the most famous collection of Arab popular...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Book Review: Desperate in Dubai

Desperate in Dubai, a cheeky exposé novel based on the original blog written by Ameera...

March 22, 2012

Book Review: Miroirs et Mirages by Monia Mazigh

This post was written by Chelby Marie Daigle and originally published at The Woyingi Blog....

March 14, 2012

Updates from Elsewhere

We're sharing some excerpts today from a few different stories that relate to things we've...

February 2012

February 09, 2012

Book Review: Love, InshAllah

"I wasted years because I didn't think I fit into their conception of Islam or...

February 06, 2012

Art of Words: Women Calligraphers Then and Now

A few days ago, Lubna Shaikh posted this calligraphic collage craft idea for children on...

February 01, 2012

On Female Scholars (But Not Feminism): Reviewing Al-Muhaddithat

I bought this book after reading a review in the New York Times. The review...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

The Favored Daughter Reviewed

The Favored Daughter—One woman’s fight to lead Afghanistan into the Future, by Fawzia Koofi with...

January 23, 2012

Book Review: Progressive Muslim Identities

Progressive Muslim Identities: Personal Stories from the U.S. and Canada is a recently-published anthology, edited...

January 12, 2012

Book Review: The Crescent Directive

The Crescent Directive was, for me, a fun but perplexing read. The concept is simple...

January 02, 2012

Had You Been A Muslim: Joumana Haddad and the Liberated Arab Woman

When Lebanese writer and poet Joumana Haddad's I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of An Angry Arab...

December 2011

December 30, 2011

MMW 2011 Year in Review: Head Coverings and Head-Shaking

As 2011 draws to a close, we at MMW are looking back at our year...

December 29, 2011

MMW 2011 Year in Review: Arts and Entertainment

As 2011 draws to a close, we at MMW are looking back at our year...

December 15, 2011

Robin Wright’s Rock the Casbah: Pink Hijabi, Counter Jihadi

Robin Wright's Rock the Casbah Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World describes what Wright...

November 2011

November 02, 2011

Self-Conscious Orientalism in Craig Thompson’s Graphic Novel Habibi

Editor's note: A longer version of this post is available on Tasnim's personal blog. Craig...

August 2011

August 09, 2011

From Somalia with Love (and Heavy-Handedness)

I was really looking forward to reading this book, as I still love young adult...

August 04, 2011

Fatima Mernissi’s Struggle with Islam and Democracy

Fatima Mernissi’s book The Forgotten Queens of Islam is a historical study that analyzes women’s...

August 03, 2011

Ahdaf Soueif’s Mezzaterra: Fiction or Reality?

Ahdaf Soueif's novel The Map of Love, published in 1999, tells the history of Egypt...

July 2011

July 27, 2011

In your local bookstore…

This great picture from Kawdess is one reason why MMW needs to exist. Thanks to...

July 26, 2011

The Muslim Women’s Media Archives: Kadınlar Dünyası

This was written by Kubra. In Turkey and beyond, it is a common misconception that...

May 2011

May 19, 2011

Arab Women: They’re in Niqabs, Gettin’ in Ur Democracy

The Atlantic featured this picture on its latest magazine, which includes an article about the...