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May 2013

May 29, 2013

Black Muslim Lesbians Find Community in Atlanta’s Gay Mecca: Part 2

In Part 1 of this post, I introduced to you activist, artist and documentary filmmaker...

May 29, 2013

Black Muslim Lesbians Find Community in Atlanta’s Gay Mecca: Part 1

Oppression works in strategic ways. When we think of who is the oppressor and who...

May 28, 2013

MUSLIM WOMEN ENJOY SEX (and Other Non-Breaking News Stories)

Mainstream media often incites rebuttals from Muslim women defending themselves against vapid stereotypes and negative...

May 27, 2013

The Women at the Forefront of Somalia’s Future

For more than 20 years there has been a continuous stream of bad news where...

May 22, 2013

Muslim Women in Development Literature

I recently came across a publication by Cordaid, a Dutch development organisation, called "Looking for That...

May 21, 2013

Gay Muslims: Fighting the Oxymoron

In 2007, when Iranian president Ahmadinejad declared that ‘we don’t have any gays in Iran’,...

May 20, 2013

In conversation with Pakistani Actress Saeeda Imtiaz

Movie stars have always fascinated me. We follow their dressing sense, emulate them, secretly envy...

May 15, 2013

Undermining the Justice of Sharia, from Granting Divorce to Female Breadwinners

A couple of weeks ago I came across this BBC Panorama story on “Women at...

May 13, 2013

Running for Boston in Jakarta

The weeks following the Boston bombing have been filled with media reports with all-too-familiar suspicion...

May 08, 2013

Getting to know the Sexual Muslimah

When I converted to Islam, before Love Inshallah (which Merium reviewed last year) and Sex...

May 02, 2013

Propelling Iran’s Bad Rep

When I was growing up in a small city on Canada’s East Coast, many of...

May 01, 2013

Saudi Women at the Helm: Beneficiaries of the Arab Spring

For the past two years, sweeping political changes in parts of the Middle East have...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Interview with Celebrity Food Blogger Thasneen Ansi

Cooking hasn’t been one of my strong points ever, and after getting married to a...

April 29, 2013

Sri Lanka: “When Sleeping Women Wake, Mountains Move”

This post was written by guest contributor Hafsa, and originally published at Sisterhood. Last June,...

April 17, 2013

The Cracking Façade of Tradition and Patriarchy

This post was written by guest contributor Yasmin N. Ali. I was seventeen years old...

April 16, 2013

HarassMap: Using Social Media to Fight Sexual Harassment in Egypt

This post was written by guest contributor Yasmeen Nizamy. “Sexual harassment is a crime that's...

April 11, 2013

Boobies and Other Issues: What Is at Stake with FEMEN?

Last October, I wrote a post discussing FEMEN’s tactics to “liberate” Muslim women in France....

April 10, 2013

Stripped of History: Palestinian Women’s Resistance

This post was written by guest contributor Rana Nazzal (@zaytouni_rana). I attended a talk last month...

April 08, 2013

Tweeting Change the Fahira Idris Way

This post was written by guest contributor Afia R. Fitriati (@AfiaRF) In a similar manner...

April 01, 2013

Nahdet Masr: Woman, Sphinx, and the Question of Modernity

In Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soeuif’s novel, The Map of Love, there is a scene that...

March 2013

March 28, 2013

Intersections: Where Do We Go From Here?

This post was written by guest contributor Nur Laura Caskey. This article is not meant...

March 27, 2013

Muslimahs in Beauty Pageants

When I was a kid, I must confess, I used to love to watch Miss...

March 26, 2013

More than Breast Friends: Kinship and Muslim Milk Banks

Breastfeeding may seem like the most natural thing in the world, but for a percentage...

March 21, 2013

North American Muslim Women, Post-Divorce

This post was written by guest contributor Deonna Kelli Sayed. Divorce is a growing challenge...

March 20, 2013

Creating Spaces of Reconciliation: Queer Muslims Congregate

Queer Muslim. These two words appear to be incongruent terms in many contexts; however, there...

March 14, 2013

Telling the Stories of Street Children in Cairo

This post was written by guest contributor Yasmeen Nizamy. The most basic rights: that’s what...

March 13, 2013

Unmasking Unmosqued: Finding a Space for Women

As many of our loyal and long-time readers are well aware of, we’ve often covered...

March 12, 2013

‘Real’ Dutch Muslimas Tackle Migration and Islamophobia

From this year onwards, wearing a niqab is officially an offence in the Netherlands, with "stiff...

March 06, 2013

Mosques and Marriages: Manifestations of Patriarchy and Misogyny in the Western, Muslim Context

This post was written by guest contributor Amina Jabbar. As I was sifting through the...

March 05, 2013

Visibility: On Muslim Women in Performance Arts

This post was written by guest contributor Rana Nazzal. I had the honour of speaking...