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August 2008

August 06, 2008

The Vulnerable Robed Women: Coverage of Women Suicide Bombers

Women suicide bombers have been receiving increasing coverage in the media in recent years. Just...

July 2008

July 29, 2008

The New York Post’s Yellow Journalism Fever

Speaking of Muslim women's clothing in the media...did we expect anything but Islamophobia and sexism...

July 09, 2008

Polygyny and Black Muslimahs

About a month ago NPR did a story on polygyny among African American Muslims in...

July 08, 2008

yet another honor killing…

A Pakistani man, Chaudhry Rashid, in Atlanta murdered his 25 year old daughter this weekend...

July 08, 2008

Message to Muslim Women: Driving = Death!

A woman in Saudi Arabia defied the driving ban, but while doing so, lost control...

July 07, 2008

A rescue mission, starting with your wardrobe

At first, I wanted to talk about this article because of the language of this...

June 2008

June 19, 2008

Inadequate Meeting

Reading through this report entitled Meet Your Average British Muslim Woman... from Asian Image on...

June 18, 2008

sexuality and women’s honor: there isn’t a link

This was written by Faith and originally published at Muslimnista. The NY Times published an...

June 17, 2008

In Defense of Dr. Samar Habib

Editor’s Note: A few Fridays ago, we published a link about the uproar over an...

June 16, 2008

Trying to Keep One’s Head in Shifting Sands

Summayyah Meehan’s article for the Khaleej Times starts out like this: “The headscarf, or hijab,...

June 03, 2008

Copy Cats: Female Muslim Artists Get No Respect

Let’s play a game, shall we? It will be like a drinking game, but without...

May 2008

May 29, 2008

It’s All in the Clothes

MMW thanks bint battuta for the tip!Why do articles mention women’s clothing when it’s not...

May 22, 2008

BBC’s Slideshow Misses the Bigger Picture

The BBC has a slide show that examines the Western Saharah independence on its 35th...

May 20, 2008

Leading Saudi Woman Blogger Alhodaif Passes Away at 25

Written by Ebtihal Mubarak, originally published on Arab News. JEDDAH, 19 May 2008 — For...

May 14, 2008

Let’s Talk about Love — Saudi Style

Yesterday’s issue of the New York Times featured a look at romance among the youth...

May 06, 2008

Offensive article on Lebanese singer Haifa Wehbe from the BBC

This was written by Susan, and was originally published at Humble Musing. Apparently being a...

April 2008

April 23, 2008

Report on Saudi women gets child-like headlines

This was written by Vanessa, and originally published at Feministing. When you thought Western culture...

April 16, 2008

No Más, Por Favor: Stereotypes of Latina Muslims

There’s a trend in the Americas. Latina* women are getting tired of Catholicism. They’re sick...

April 10, 2008

A Day in the Life Of…

Social experiments can be so much fun. And apparently journalists seem to agree. A few...

April 07, 2008

AKI’s Double Take

If you’re a devoted Friday Links reader, you might have noticed that the two Adn...

April 01, 2008

The Harvard Hullabaloo

This is going to be a quick post, because I’m still sick, it’s the first...

March 2008

March 26, 2008

The Indonesian Islamic Love Story

The Associated Press recently released a news piece titled by my local paper “Love story...

March 11, 2008

En Vogue: Muslim Women in Fashion News

A smattering of articles have appeared in newspapers lately, aiming to spread the word about...

March 10, 2008

File This Under “Here We Go Again”

Last week, Forbes.com featured a briefing from Oxford Analytica entitled, “Why So Many Female Bombers?”...

February 2008

February 26, 2008

AKI Gets Tired of the Same Old Terrorist Stock Footage

AKI reported last week that the result of Pakistan’s elections will boost counter-terrorism efforts. This...

February 21, 2008

All the News That’s Fit to Print? The Gulf Times Forgets the Definition of ‘News’

Qatar’s Gulf Times published three different articles in its February 15, 2008 “Islam” section that...

February 18, 2008

Family Values

When I read the Daily Mail article from the UK entitled I was forced to...

February 14, 2008

All Saudi Arabia Needs is Love

This sloppy article from CNN talks about how Saudi Arabia overreacts to Valentine’s Day every...

February 05, 2008

On the Nose: Iranian Rhinoplasty in the News

Al Arabiya’s English website features a gallery that introduces soft news stories through pictorials: their...

February 04, 2008

Interview with Danish Information Newspaper: “Blog-riot from muslim feminists”

Check it out! MMW's Editor-in-Chief was interviewed in a Danish daily newspaper, Information. Here's the...