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August 2013

August 09, 2013

Friday Links | August 9, 2013

Every summer thousands of underage Egyptian girls are sold in (temporary) marriage by their families to Arab Gulf men. It...

August 02, 2013

Friday Links | August 2, 2013

Turkish Sufi scholar and lawyer Ömer Tuğrul İnançer has said during an interview that the presence of...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

Friday Links | July 26, 2013

Last Friday French police just outside of Paris clashed with hundreds of demonstrators, after police had asked a...

July 19, 2013

Friday Links | July 19, 2013

A record number of Rohingya women and their children are fleeing Burma/Myanmar by boat, which is...

July 12, 2013

Friday Links | July 12, 2013

It is Ramadan and many news items featuring Muslim women are focused on the Holy Month....

July 05, 2013

Friday Links | July 5, 2013

Iranian swimmer Elham Asghari swam 20 kilometres in open sea, which is a record breaking distance...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

Friday Links | June 21, 2013

Feminist activists in Tunisia are working to frame women's rights as "a social and political...

June 14, 2013

Friday Links | June 14, 2013

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June 07, 2013

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Anneke is traveling this week and so am I, which means nobody was able to...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Friday Links | May 31, 2013

Rehana Kausar and Sobia Kamar are the first Muslim lesbians united in a civil ceremony...

May 17, 2013

Friday Links | May 17, 2013

Reports about Syrian refugee women getting sold in marriage in Jordan remain rampant, especially young girls...

May 10, 2013

Friday Links | May 10, 2013

Pakistan will vote on May 11, and women, both as voters and as candidates, are...

May 03, 2013

Friday Links | May 3, 2013

Last week a factory building collapsed in Bangladesh, and approximately 400 people were killed; most of...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

Friday Links | April 26, 2013

There were, of course, a lot of news items related to the (female) relatives of...

April 19, 2013

Friday Links | April 19, 2013

Nausheen Tobassum, a 17-year-old Indian girl, shares her horrific story as an "one month wife," and reveals...

April 12, 2013

Friday Links | April 12, 2013

Zainab Bangura from Sierra Leone is the new UN Special Rapporteur on Sexual Violence in...

April 05, 2013

Friday Links | April 5, 2013

Last week on Maundy Thursday, Pope Francis I washed the feet of inmates in Rome,...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

Friday Links | March 29, 2013

Last week in Algeria, women went to the streets to defend their local tradition of...

March 22, 2013

Friday Links | March 22, 2013

This week marks the ten-year anniversary of the Iraq war, and when it comes to...

March 15, 2013

Friday Links | March 15, 2013

Last week was International Women's Day, and a lot of news items this week were...

March 08, 2013

Friday Links | March 8, 2013

Morocco's Penal Code has undergone some minor changes since the death of Amina Filali last year, but Amnesty...

March 01, 2013

Friday Links | March 1, 2013

Al Jazeera reports that in Syria, women are increasingly becoming weapons of war between the...

February 2013

February 22, 2013

Friday Links | February 22, 2013

An attack in Quetta, Pakistan on February 16 in a predominantly Shi'a Hazara neighborhood has...

February 15, 2013

Friday Links | February 15, 2013

Some Indonesian Muslim women are taking up a more active role in the country's radical...

February 08, 2013

Friday Links | February 8, 2013

A story about a female sniper in Aleppo, Syria speaks to the imagination, but articles...

February 01, 2013

Friday Links | February 1, 2013

While the city of Timbuktu, Mali, is celebrating the end of the Islamist rule, one woman...

January 2013

January 18, 2013

Friday Links | January 18, 2013

A report by the International Rescue Committee tells of the sexual violence many Syrian women...

January 11, 2013

Friday Links | January 11, 2013

Sri Lankan Rizana Nafeek has been beheaded last week in Saudi Arabia, for allegedly killing...

January 04, 2013

Friday Links | January 4, 2013

An increasing number of Muslim women in the UK is entering into a marriage with...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

Friday Links | December 28, 2012

An Afghan policewoman has killed a civilian contractor in Kabul, last Monday. Her children say...