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February 2009

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 23, 2009

MMW Roundtable on the Murder of Aasiya Hassan

Salam waleykum, readers. Last week, we brought you daily updates on the Muslim community's response...

February 18, 2009

OH NOES! Hijab will make you sick!

The results of a new study on Arab women in Dearborn, Mich., have been released....

February 17, 2009

A Collection of Statements Concerning the Murder of Aasiya Hassan — Updated 3.3.09

February 11, 2009

A Look at Women in Iran 30 years after the Islamic Revolution

It has been 30 years since the Islamic Revolution in Iran and Western media has...

February 11, 2009

Rock the Vote: Media Coverage of Women in Iraqi Elections

Last week’s Iraqi elections received lots of media coverage, but at MMW we were mostly...

February 10, 2009

The CIA and Rape: Media Representations of the Victims

Various news organizations have reported that a CIA officer stationed in Algeria, identified by CBS...

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 -...

February 05, 2009

Rachida Dati’s Rise and Fall

French politician Rachida Dati has been in and out of the headlines since taking office...

February 04, 2009

Sandeela Kanwal: “Honor Killing”, Race and Religion

NPR did a piece on the "honor killing" of Sandeela Kanwal on January 26, 2009. Kanwal...

January 2009

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 19, 2009

OMG, it’s a Muslim! Call the terrorist police!

Okay, good news first: Dr. Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America...

January 14, 2009

Single Moroccan Female: Single Mothers in Morocco

Single Muslim mothers must be the new "it" topic for the Western media. There has...

January 13, 2009

For the millionth time, “Muslim” and “American” are NOT mutually exclusive

I've been doing some research lately on spaces where "Muslim" and "Canadian" are talked about...

January 12, 2009

Debating the morality of Rachida Dati

Ms. Rachida Dati, France’s first female Muslim minister, has been criticized for returning to work...

January 08, 2009

Egyptian Women Hanging out in Mosques

I came across an interesting Associated Press article a couple of days ago titled Egyptian...

January 07, 2009

Aliyah’s Choice: The LA Times’ Profile of a Lesbian Muslim

It wasn’t but several years ago when a Google search for “gay Muslims” or “lesbian...

January 06, 2009

Three Oppressions in One: Mona Awad’s Lawsuit

Dr. Sherene Razack has a theory called Interlocking Systems of Domination, which says that people...

January 05, 2009

Sexual harassment of Libyan women is holding us back

A recent Reuters article vaguely described sexual harassment in Libya by blaming it on “antiquated...

January 01, 2009

“In Gaza, It’s 9/11 every hour, every minute, everywhere.”

Like a lot of people, I've spent the past couple of days glued to my...

December 2008

December 31, 2008

Kariman Hamzah: Giving us a Woman’s Interpretation of the Qur’an

In this past week's Friday links, Fatemeh mentioned that Al-Azhar University had for the first...

December 30, 2008

Life Lost: the Tragic Case of Sahar Daftary

On December 20th, 23-year-old model Sahar Daftary died as a result of a fall from...

December 29, 2008

The media’s surface-level fixation on Libya’s female bodyguards

The first thing anyone, male or female, Arab or not ever says to me when...

December 25, 2008

All About Eve: a Women’s Only Business Complex in Dubai

Dubai's leading U.A.E.-based international property developer, Hydra Properties, recently announced plans to build an all-female...

December 24, 2008

Lisa Valentine: hijab and expletives

American hijabis often have a lot to think about when they step outside their doors....

December 23, 2008

Fly Girls: the NYT’s essentialist profile of Emirati flight attendants

MMW would like to thank Thabet for the tip! Katherine Zopf's Sunday article in The...

December 22, 2008

Not Australia’s Next Top Model: Iktimal Hage-Ali

Iktimal Hage-Ali, 24 is a Lebanese-Australian woman whose life reads like an episode of E!...

December 18, 2008

Egyptian Spinsters and Old Maids Sitting Happily on the Shelf

I am a 21-year-old spinster. Yes, a spinster at 21. In my country, although many...

December 16, 2008

Online Activism: Can it Work?

MMW thanks Ali Eteraz for The Huffington Post tip. Last week, Peter Daou at The...

December 04, 2008

Media Whores: The Egyptian Media’s Defamatory Coverage of the Murders of Heba & Nadine

A week ago, Heba Akad, the daughter of famous Moroccan singer, Laila Ghofran, was brutally...