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January 2012

January 26, 2012

Marching with Dignity – “Sisters” or Not

Just a month ago, here on MMW, I tried to highlight the fact that mainstream...

January 25, 2012

Nina Burleigh’s Contradictory Discussion of “Oxymoronic Creatures”

Slate recently ran a piece about Azza al Garf, dubbing her a “culturally regressive trailblazer,”...

January 24, 2012

Choose Your Caption: Niqab as Illustrative of, Well, Everything

The development of a university course about Muslim women in the media and the threats...

January 16, 2012

Reading Too Much into Veenagate

Veena Malik is a Pakistani actress with a special flair for controversy. She first made...

January 05, 2012

From Iranian Women to Egyptian Women?

Shortly after the results of the first stage of the Egyptian parliament elections, everyone started...

December 2011

December 30, 2011

MMW 2011 Year in Review: Head Coverings and Head-Shaking

As 2011 draws to a close, we at MMW are looking back at our year...

December 28, 2011

MMW 2011 Year in Review: News

As 2011 draws to a close, we at MMW are looking back at our year...

December 27, 2011

The Faux Phallic Fatwa

On December 6th, a headline hit Facebook and Twitter feeds that an unnamed Islamic cleric...

December 26, 2011

Women in the 2011 Revolutions: Tawakul Karman

This post was written by guest contributor Summar Shammakhi. For a long time, negative impressions...

December 14, 2011

What Women Wear: Women’s Clothing, Media, and Egypt’s Revolutionary Elections

Women in the Egyptian revolution have been a great source of international attention and appreciation....

December 13, 2011

An Update of Sorts on the Sura al-Shawk Case

Almost a year ago, for my very first MMW post, I wrote about Sura al-Shawk,...

December 12, 2011

The Need to Be Proactive: Responses to Domestic Violences in Muslim Communities

On November 15, 2011, a number of Canadian Muslim leaders and organizations issued a press...

December 08, 2011

Niqab, Courts, and Sexual Assault

Today, the Supreme Court of Canada heard submissions regarding the case of N.S., a complainant...

December 07, 2011

Riding in Cars with Satan

2001: Driver’s Education on a warm spring day. Despite years of riding in cars, I...

November 2011

November 29, 2011

Proving Muslim Women Are (wait for it) Normal

The Huffington Post’s coverage of Islam and Muslims has sometimes missed the mark, and at...

November 28, 2011

Jezebel and the Broken Jihad Record

Following the lead of the always reliable Daily Mail, Jezebel recently published a post declaring...

November 28, 2011

The “Symbolic Step” of Women’s Political Participation in A New Libya

Libya's new interim government, which was announced on November 22, has been tasked with preparing...

November 23, 2011

Hot Off the Press! White Women Are Converting to Islam!

Look at pictures of real live white women wearing hijab! All the exclamation marks in...

November 15, 2011

The Libyan Woman’s New Libya

This piece was written by a Guest Contributor, Summar Shammakhi. The interim Libyan leader, Mustapha...

November 09, 2011

Selective Shivers in the Islamist Winter

The election of the so-called ‘moderate Islamist’ party, Ennahda, to the head seat of the...

September 2011

September 06, 2011

Libya’s Girl Executioners and Gun-Brandishing Newscasters

Nisreen Mansour al Forgani, centre, with fellow Gaddafi female militia members. She is now under...

August 2011

August 08, 2011

The Guardian Turns a Water Pistol Fight into an Islamic Wet t-Shirt Contest

I found it refreshing to see pictures of a young Iranians taking part in a...

July 2011

July 14, 2011

Won’t Someone Think of the Menstruating Children?

By guest contributor Wood Turtle; a longer version of this post was originally published at...

July 13, 2011

Jamaat-i-Islami in Pakistan and the rape/adultery fallacy

This post was written by Aziz Poonawalla and originally appeared at City of Brass. I...

July 12, 2011

Obligatory Richard Dawkins Post

So Richard Dawkins is an asshat. Anyone surprised? Here's the comment he left on a...

July 05, 2011

The Media’s Role in Limiting Women’s Development

I was following with interest media commentaries on the recent experts meeting on women’s media...

July 02, 2011

The New York Post’s DSK Victim-Blaming

Here's today's front page of The New York Post, victim-blaming Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser. You can...

June 2011

June 20, 2011

The Media’s Chickens Come Home to Roost with the Amina Hoax

This was written by B. Full disclosure: Last month I wrote a piece for MMW...

June 16, 2011

That Post Where Maureen Dowd Got Ripped a New One

Maureen Dowd has opinions, everybody! And she is gracious enough to share them with us...

June 10, 2011

Updates: Amina Abdullah and Eman al-Obeidi

Two important updates on stories that we have covered over the past couple months! First,...