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May 2009

May 18, 2009

Non-Issue or New Islamist Threat? Headscarves and the FFQ

The Fédération des femmes du Québec (Federation of Quebec Women; abbreviated as FFQ) recently had...

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 12, 2009

Facing Justice: An Update

I wrote a little while ago about the media coverage of the Toronto sexual assault...

May 07, 2009

The Guardian’s First Lady Faux Pas

During an election campaign, we often get articles focusing on the wives of male candidates....

May 06, 2009

A Marriage made in Parliament: South Africa’s Muslim Personal Law Bill, Part 2

This is part two of our series on Muslim Personal Law in South Africa. Today,...

May 05, 2009

A Marriage made in Parliament: South Africa’s Muslim Personal Law Bill, Part 1

This is the first of a two-series post on South Africa's Muslim Personal Law bill....

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...

May 01, 2009

Delara Darabi has been executed–UPDATED

Salam waleykum, readers. It's with a heavy heart that I spread the word about Delara...

April 2009

April 29, 2009

Score One for the BBC!

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

April 28, 2009

Sexy Things: Women or Lingerie?

You know things are sad in the world of news about Muslimahs when "Muslim women...

April 23, 2009

Unfair Play: Doha Conference Sheds Light on Biased Images of Muslim Women in Western Media

This week in Doha, Qatar, the "East and West — Women in Media’s Eye" conference...

April 21, 2009

Canada’s Military and Afghan Women: A Follow-Up

This piece is also posted at Muslim Lookout. I know I just talked about this...

April 20, 2009

Mugshot VS Murder: the Media’s Angle on Bhia Hadid’s Murder

A two year old girl, Bhia Hadid, has been killed. The police have arrested and...

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 13, 2009

Are Afghan Women Really Canada’s Top Priority?

A few weeks ago, the news of a new law for Shi'a Muslims in Afghanistan...

April 09, 2009

The Whipping Girl: Examining the Video of the Flogging in Pakistan

The recent release of a video showing the flogging of a girl by the Taliban...

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 27, 2009

The Day I Met Amina Wadud – a Critique

Salam waleykum, readers! I'm traveling, and so I didn't have time to put together Friday...

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 17, 2009

News We Can Use: the BBC’s Look at Gender and Class in Egyptian Mosques

A recent BBC News article has provided an astonishing suggestion that, far from being the...

March 17, 2009

The Other Half of the Sky: Inheritance in a Tunisian Film

Tunisian filmmaker Kalthoum Bornaz's film Shtar M'Haba (The Other Half of the Sky) was recently...

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 10, 2009

Journalist Missing the Mission: Sally Armstrong and Afghan Women

The following has been cross posted at Muslim Lookout. For a while now Sally Armstrong...

March 09, 2009

Fitna Flop: Daisy Khan and Irshad Manji Discuss Geert Wilders’ Film on CNN

On Thursday, February 26, Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) welcomed Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders and sponsored...

March 05, 2009

Faulty Framing: Washington Times mischaracterizes a new Gallup poll on American Muslims

Gallup released a new study on Monday examining American Muslims. Some of the results: Muslims...

March 04, 2009

How to Write about Muslims (for real)

This piece was written by both Sobia and Krista After getting all of that sarcasm...