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May 2011

May 11, 2011

Al-Shamikha: Not Your Average Ladymag?

A new magazine is “making waves” in Europe and North America—or so it would seem...

May 03, 2011

Nothing Says Empowerment Like Sexy Face and an Oil Rubdown

Sila Şahin, a Turkish-German actress, shed her clothes in order to “free” herself from her...

May 02, 2011

I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim

“An identity neither begins nor ends on a stretch of land, for identity lives within...

April 2011

April 20, 2011

A Review of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

For me, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s The Dressmaker of Khair Khana is a journalistic field story...

March 2011

March 17, 2011

Dictatorships Are No Longer in Vogue

What does one of the world’s premier fashion and culture magazines have in common with...

February 2011

February 28, 2011

Worth Reading: The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

After our review of Boy vs. Girl, a couple readers asked for MMW’s thoughts on...

February 22, 2011

Rukhsana Khan: A Wonderful Children’s Author

Recently, I was in a bookshop with my daughter. We were in the children's section,...

February 01, 2011

Between Worlds: Jilbab and Transgender in Indonesia

It is a scene that wouldn't be unfamiliar in France or Belgium: a woman's hijab...

January 2011

January 31, 2011

Boy vs. Girl: “Pure” Islam or Purely Sanctimonious?

Na'ima B. Robert’s second book, “Boy vs. Girl” is set in a South Asian community...

January 25, 2011

Control and Sexuality: The Revival of Zina Laws in Muslim Contexts

The Violence is Not Our Culture (VNC) Campaign and the Women Living Under Muslim Laws...

January 20, 2011

Book Review: Rula Jebreal’s Miral

Despite some memorable characters and moments, as well as the (ultimately brief) acknowledgment of Hind...

December 2010

December 09, 2010

Fe-Mail Fail: Amy Mowafi’s Attempt to be Carrie Bradshaw

The desire to crown an intelligent, sexy-yet-fashionable lady as the Carrie Bradshaw of the Middle...

November 2010

November 11, 2010

A Review of Tamam Kahn’s Untold

Although the wives of the Prophet are held up as examples for Muslim women to...

October 2010

October 14, 2010

However Tall the Mountain: Stories from an Afghan Girls’ Soccer Team

Named from an Afghan saying that “However tall the mountain, there’s always a road,” However...

October 07, 2010

Funny or Far-Fetched? Ghada Abdel Aal’s I Want to Get Married

It reads as if the pages were lifted right from the script of Mad Men....

October 04, 2010

Cultural Cartography: Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home

A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar is a book that does not fall into...

September 2010

September 22, 2010

Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow: A Young Woman’s Portrait of Muslims in France

I’ve been working on a curriculum project involving novels and memoirs about Muslim women, so...

September 21, 2010

3ayza Atgawez: A “Spinster Crisis” Comedy

One of the most anticipated Ramadan series this year was 3ayza Atgawez, (“I Want to...

September 20, 2010

Revisiting Marie Claire’s Coverage of Muslim Women

This was written by Arwa Aburawa. Regular readers of Muslimah Media Watch may remember last...

September 15, 2010

Revenge of the Battered Muslim Woman Stereotype

The back of her novel describes Taslima Nasrin’s Revenge: In contemporary Bangladesh, Jhumur marries for...

August 2010

August 24, 2010

Will the Real ‘Carrie Bradshaw of the Middle East’ Please Come Forward?

This post was written by M. Lynx Qualey and originally appeared on her blog Arab...

August 19, 2010

State of the (Superhero) Nation: Faiza Hussein in British Comics

Faiza Hussain is a British Muslim super heroine of Pakistani descent, introduced in the 2008-2009...

August 10, 2010

FGM in Kristof and WuDunn’s Half the Sky

After watching Moolaadé, I recalled that I had come across a story several months ago...

August 05, 2010

July 2010

July 29, 2010

An Interview with Yasmeen Maxamuud

Raaz for MMW: I found Nomad Diaries a wonderful introduction to the lives of Somali...

July 26, 2010

Smells Like Teen Muslims: The War Within Our Hearts

My parents sent me to an Islamic school from the age of five to thirteen;...

July 20, 2010

A Review of Suzy Ismail’s When Muslim Marriage Fails

It is said that in Islam, marriage is half the faith. Yet marriages are increasingly...