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July 2010

July 15, 2010

Urban Islamic Fiction: A New Genre in Muslim Lit

Urban fiction novels have been filling up bookshelves across America for generations. Characterized by city...

July 13, 2010

An Open Letter to Maureen Dowd

Dear Maureen, I hear you’re back from your jaunt over in Saudi Arabia. Kudos to...

July 12, 2010

Yasmeen Maxamuud’s Nomad Diaries

In Yasmeen Maxamuud’s novel, Nomad Diaries, Maxamuud tells the story of an upper-class Somali woman,...

July 06, 2010

Missionary Rhetoric: A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness

When Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale, a feminist dystopia set in a world run...

June 2010

June 29, 2010

A Danish Scheherazade: Suzanne Brøgger’s The Veil

The prolific and eclectic Danish writer Suzanne Brøgger has more than twenty works to her...

June 15, 2010

Book Review: Isobel Coleman’s Paradise Beneath Her Feet

Isobel Coleman’s recently-released Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East presents...

June 11, 2010

G. Willow Wilson: On Women, the Media, and Islam

Editor's Note: Readers, since this has been a busy week of travel for me, I...

June 01, 2010

Book Review: G. Willow Wilson’s The Butterfly Mosque

After reading Ali Eteraz’s Children of Dust, I bemoaned the lack of examples in literature—and...

May 2010

May 17, 2010

The “Tyranny of Sex” in the Saudi Novel

This story was written by M. Lynx Qualey and originally appeared at Arabic Literature (in...

May 11, 2010

Aquila: A New Kind of Muslim Woman?

For those familiar with women's “lifestyle” magazines, the call to be “sexy” in some way...

May 06, 2010

More on Muslim Teens in Young Adult Fiction: Bifocal

In March, MMW ran a guest post by Özlem Sensoy and Elizabeth Marshall about representations of Muslim women and...

April 2010

April 28, 2010

Desert Romance: Exoticization and Interfaith Marriage

"I got married secretly in a mosque," says Elisabeth Elhazza. Her words are the title...

April 27, 2010

A Conversation with Elif Şafak

Turkish novelist Elif Şafak (pictured below) ties her diversity of experiences and her background into...

March 2010

March 24, 2010

“Save the Muslim Girl!” Part III

This was written by Özlem Sensoy and Elizabeth Marshall, and originally appeared in Rethinking Schools...

March 23, 2010

“Save the Muslim Girl!” Part II

This was written by Özlem Sensoy and Elizabeth Marshall, and originally appeared in Rethinking Schools...

March 22, 2010

“Save the Muslim Girl!” Part I

This was written by Özlem Sensoy and Elizabeth Marshall, and originally appeared at Rethinking Schools...

March 15, 2010

Bérengère Lefranc’s “Un voile, Un certain moi de juin”

Un voile, Un certain moi de juin is the story of French artist Bérengère Lefranc's...

March 11, 2010

Reading Religion and Canadian Identity: Sheema Khan’s Of Hockey and Hijab

Of Hockey and Hijab: Reflections of a Canadian Muslim Woman, published last October, is a...

March 09, 2010

Drastic Plastic: emel Focuses on Women and Body Image

Very seldom does Muslim media produce quality critical analysis of issues facing Muslim women. But emel...

February 2010

February 24, 2010

An Interview with Emma Tarlo, Author of Visibly Muslim

Last week, I reviewed Emma Tarlo's book Visibly Muslim: Fashion, Politics, Faith. This week, I...

February 16, 2010

Abeer Esber: For Wrong Reasons, Easier for Arab Women to Publish

This was written by M. Lynx Qualey and originally appeared at Arabic Literature (In English)....

February 10, 2010

A Look at Women in Ali Eteraz’s Children of Dust: Part II

Part I of this review ran last week. You can read it here. Why do...

February 08, 2010

The Headscarf as Cultural Barometer: Emma Tarlo’s Book on Hijab

In her new book, entitled Visibly Muslim: Fashion, Politics, Faith, Emma Tarlo captures the diversity...

February 03, 2010

A Look at Women in Ali Eteraz’s Children of Dust: Part I

Children of Dust, prominent writer Ali Eteraz’s recently published memoir, provides an excellent example of...

January 2010

January 07, 2010

Shortlist for “Arab Booker”: Where are the women?

This is a slightly edited version of an article written by Susannah Tarbush. A complete...

December 2009

December 23, 2009

Homeland Insecurity: A Study in How We Felt After 9/11

September 11, 2001 was different for everybody. But it’s safe to say that U.S. Muslims...

December 15, 2009

Muslim Women Reformers: Inspiring Voices Against Oppression

This was written by Lisa Rand and originally published by Feminist Review. Ida Lichter’s Muslim...

December 08, 2009

Pasha’s Perfection: Mother of the Believers

During Ramadan, my bedside novel happened to be Mother of the Believers by Kamran Pasha....

December 01, 2009

Questioning Marnia Lazreg’s One-Way Correspondence with Muslim Women

Reading Marnia Lazreg’s new book Questioning the Veil (Princeton University Press, 2009) was at the...

November 2009

November 18, 2009

One Afghan Woman’s Words: Malalai Joya’s Book Tour

Malalai Joya, an Afghan activist for women's rights (and many other things), was in Toronto...