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October 2010

October 05, 2010

Does NiqaBitch Enrich the Burqa Ban Debate?

With articles in Der Spiegel, Rue89, The Telegraph, and a YouTube video in recent weeks,...

September 2010

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 07, 2010

Awesome New Website: Hijab and the City

Founded by two sisters in 2008, the French webzine Hijab and the City has a...

August 2010

August 25, 2010

“Report from a Pashtun Teen” in the New York Times

After reading Nicholas Kristof and Sheryll WuDunn’s Half the Sky earlier this year, I began...

August 23, 2010

A Woman Without Hijab is Like a Chair with Three Legs

If you still haven’t figured out that wearing black chadors will save your worldly soul...

August 17, 2010

The Wardrobe Wars: Bikinis and Garbage Bags

About a week ago, a British woman in a Dubai shopping mall, allegedly wearing a...

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 09, 2010

FGM in Sembene’s Moolaadé

Moolaadé, directed by the Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene and released in 2004,tells the story of...

August 05, 2010

July 2010

July 22, 2010

What Not to Write: More on Bad Veil Headlines

Noorain Khan's piece on bad burqa puns, which MMW reposted yesterday, came as I have been...

July 19, 2010

Coverage of “Fashionable” Muslim Women Cramps Our Style

While the front pages of newspapers feature Muslim women in flowing black abayas, burqas, and...

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,...

June 2010

June 30, 2010

There’s “Muslim,” and Then There’s “Muslim-Born”…

The Independent recently published an article by Jerome Taylor, titled "First woman to lead Friday...

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 24, 2010

A Reporter’s Headscarf is Not An Insult

The father and brother of Aqsa Parvez, a Muslim Canadian teenager who was killed in...

June 16, 2010

Rima Fakih and the Issue of Muslim Heritage

This post was written by Margari Aziza Hill and originally published at her website. It’s...

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 14, 2010

“Really Dutch:” On Consumerism and National Identity

Al Nisa (Arabic for “the women”), a Muslim woman’s organization based out of the Netherlands,...

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 10, 2010

The Women of Indonesia’s Film Religi: Part II

Yesterday, we examined “the convert” and “the reformer,” two types of female characters in film...

June 09, 2010

The Women of Indonesia’s Film Religi: Part I

Film religi is an Indonesian cultural phenomenon quite unlike any other in Southeast Asia. It...

June 07, 2010

Rowdy Saudis: MTV’s “Resist the Power: Saudi Arabia”

As part of the True Life series, MTV recently aired an episode titled, “Resist the...

June 03, 2010

Power Laced with Femininity: Stereotypes and Female Bodybuilders

Becca Swanson, bodybuilder, power-lifter, and pro-wrestler (who has been called "The Strongest Woman on the...

June 02, 2010

The Lobby for Abu Dhabi — An Essay by Carrie Bradshaw

Recently, Ms. Bradshaw traveled to the Emirates for a glamorous vacation with a few pals....

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 26, 2010

Iskandar’s Republic of Concubines

“We have no girls here that work with their degrees. Our girls are pampered. Everything...

May 18, 2010

Niqabs, Media, and Taking Action

Today is the Day of Action on Quebec's Bill 94, which I wrote about last...

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 12, 2010

A War of Women: Al Jazeera’s Lebanon’s Women Warriors

Al Jazeera recently aired a piece titled Lebanon’s Women Warriors, which features the testimonies and...

May 10, 2010

Salwa Says, “Speak Up!”

When Doha had to jump out of her cab three times after being assaulted by...