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May 2009

May 14, 2009

The Astonishing Case of the Shrinking Muslim Woman

It's become common belief that Muslim women, particularly those wear the hijab, are liberated from...

May 13, 2009

The Sound of a Broken Record: Alibhai-Brown’s Essay for The Independent

Reading Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's commentary in The Independent reminded me a bit of a group of...

May 11, 2009

All About our Mothers

This was written by Youssef Rakha and originally appeared in The National. “Happy Mother’s Day!...

May 04, 2009

One Muslim Woman’s Perspective on Violence

Shahina Siddiqui's article "True Muslim society protects women," published this past weekend in the Winnipeg...

April 2009

April 30, 2009

My Daughters’ Keeper: Nahid Persson’s “Prostitution Behind The Veil”

For a relatively high-brow TV channel, BBC4 is known for providing top quality programs and...

April 29, 2009

Score One for the BBC!

A couple of weeks of ago, the BBC featured a story on Kurdish women football...

April 27, 2009

Soft Serve: Time’s Article on Islam’s “Soft Revolution”

The March 2009 issue of Time magazine carried an extensive article about Islam, called “A...

April 16, 2009

Famous, female, and divorced? That’s hot!

If you think that divorce brings shame and stigma squarely upon women only in conservative...

April 14, 2009

The “Limit of Tolerance” of a white, privileged, non-Muslim man

I wrote a post last week on the flogging that took place in Pakistan's Swat...

April 14, 2009

My Little Pony (is Islam-Approved)

I’m not a dog person, or a cat person, or a pet person. But I...

April 07, 2009

“Just look at our women!” Or, how to use female bodies to prove your point

Check out Muslim Lookout for an expanded version of this post. Be prepared for some...

April 02, 2009

The Hole Story: Sexual Abuse in a “Strict Muslim” Household

"Sexual Abuse in Islamic Society" is the title of a recently published BBC article.* Right...

April 01, 2009

Hard Times in Gaza: the BBC looks at Domestic Violence in Gaza Strip

Krista recently did an analysis of a BBC profile of Egyptian women's participation in mosques...

March 2009

March 25, 2009

Oppressed and Downtrodden: The New York Times Profiles Abused Afghan Women

Covering Afghan women must be an especially hard task for many Western journalists. I say...

March 24, 2009

From Bikinis to Hijabs: Using Psychology to Your Advantage

My eyebrows raised when I read this article on IslamOnline. The article, entitled Study: Men...

March 23, 2009

Pimp My Daughter: Iraqi Women and Prostitution

I saw the movie Taken with my friend and her husband the other day and...

March 19, 2009

The Ideal Egyptian Woman, According to CityStars Mall

For those who don't know, CityStars mall in Cairo was the biggest mall in the Middle...

March 16, 2009

The Age of Innocence: the Mistreatment of an Elderly Woman in Saudi Arabia

The internet is abuzz with talk of Khamisa Sawadi, a 75-year-old Syrian widow living in...

March 12, 2009

Assimilation Frustration: a Review of AmericanEast

A longer version of this article appears on altmuslimah, while this version appeared at Racialicious....

March 05, 2009

What’s Love Got to Do With It? Amours Voilees’ Representations of Love and the Veil

There's a new Moroccan movie out that, on the surface, seems to tackle the issue...

March 03, 2009

For Art’s Sake: the Arabesque Arts Festival

All week, all I and my Arab and Arab-friendly friends (fellow Near Eastern studies graduates)...

February 2009

February 26, 2009

Love in a Headscarf: A Review

Okay, I'll admit it. When I first heard the title, my immediate reaction was to...

February 25, 2009

Judgment Day: Muslim Women Earn Judge Appointments in West Bank

Two women, Khuloud Faqih and Asmahan Wuheidi, have become judges in Islamic courts in the West Bank. This...

February 25, 2009

Foreign bodies as sexual playgrounds

This was written by Cycads and originally appeared on her blog. So there was this...

February 19, 2009

Muslim in America: The Experiment

CNN recently featured a story of a social science experiment conducted by Dr. Akbar Ahmed,...

February 09, 2009

Jasad: Sex, Fetishes, and the Erotic in a new Arabic Glossy

Sex. Always an attention getter. So there's no wonder why Jasad, or "Body," a new...

February 09, 2009

Disorder in the Court: the Niqab and the Courtroom in Canada

A Toronto judge has recently ruled that a complainant in a sexual assault trial -...

January 2009

January 28, 2009

From the Source: Muslimah Source Joins the Interwebs

Muslimah Source is a new site that is geared towards Muslim women. When I visited...

January 27, 2009

From the Outside Looking In: What Does Not Need Reporting

* Asian and South Asian will be used interchangeably to refer to those of Indian,...

January 27, 2009

Idealising Islamic womanhood, internalising whiteness

This post was written by Cycads, and originally appeared on her blog. Malaysian actress...