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January 2014

January 28, 2014

Britain and the Veil: From Jack Straw to Jeremy Browne

The debate about whether or not “we” should have a debate about banning “veils” has...

January 15, 2014

Am I Dressed Appropriately? Or Why That’s None of Your Business

Last Wednesday, social media was abuzz with the published findings of a recent study conducted...

January 08, 2014

Entrenching Stigma: Malaysia’s Cross-Dressing Law

2013 ended with another decision, somewhere in the world, to entrench the persecution and ostracisation...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

Uneasy Solidarity and the Hijab

As the debate on Quebec’s Charter of Secularism (formally the unaptly named Charter of Values)...

November 2013

November 12, 2013

A Hijabi in Healthcare: The Story of Dr. Lailiyya

The recent debates on Quebec’s Charter of Values and on hijabis in Singaporean workplaces remind...

November 05, 2013

Tudung or Not Tudung?: Hijabis in Singaporean Workplaces

In Singapore, the hijab is more commonly referred to with the Malay word ‘tudung’, which...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

Age Is Not Just a Number: A Look into the Recent Controversy about Legalizing Child Marriages among Kerala Muslims

The last few months have witnessed an uproar in my home state, Kerala, surrounding the...

October 24, 2013

What Should We Make of the Malala Issue?

Editor’s note: Malala Yousafzai has been extensively covered in media lately, and several MMW writers wanted...

October 22, 2013

Is Pakistan Really Neverland?: Malala, the Perpetual Child Activist

Editor’s note: Malala Yousafzai has been extensively covered in media lately, and several MMW writers wanted...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Officials Claim Tunisian Women are Waging a ‘Sexual Jihad’ in Syria, But What’s the Real Story?

This piece was originally published at PolicyMic. By now you have probably already heard of...

September 25, 2013

The Elephant in the Room: Niqabs in the Courtroom

A couple of years ago I attended a lecture delivered by Dr. Natasha Bakht at...

September 19, 2013

The #ChildNotBride Debacle in Nigeria

During Ramadan, a great uproar took place in Nigeria over actions by the government that...

September 16, 2013

Muslim Women, Religious Neutrality, and Quebec’s Charter of Values

The news here in Quebec – and in many other parts of Canada – has...

August 2013

August 22, 2013

Women’s Involvement Is Nothing New

When you google the possible variations of these words: Women, Role & Arab Spring, you...

July 2013

July 03, 2013

Fatima Hamed Hossain: Politician or Jihadist?

A few weeks ago, I attended the Critical Muslim Studies summer school in Granada, Spain....

June 2013

June 27, 2013

Mothers, Brainwashed Wives and Tomboys: Muslim Women in Armed Conflict

In the past few years, images of Muslim women in war settings have become increasingly...

June 19, 2013

Breaking Down Stereotypes: Somali Women Always Agents of History

Recently, the Huffington Post re-published an Associated Press article on Sufi resurgence in Somalia. Following...

June 06, 2013

No (Wo)man Is an Island – Polio Vaccination in Northern Nigeria

I recently came across this video by UNICEF Nigeria about a community’s difficulty in getting...

May 2013

May 27, 2013

The Women at the Forefront of Somalia’s Future

For more than 20 years there has been a continuous stream of bad news where...

May 14, 2013

Women and Democracy in Pakistan: How Dreams are Stronger than Fear

This post was written by guest contributor Maria Salman. Defiance. In light of a recent...

May 07, 2013

America and Oppressed Muslim Women

“She ought to be in prison for wearing the hijab” said conservative political pundit Ann...

May 06, 2013

Hide Your Children, Hide Your Family, Hide Your Mother

This post was written by guest contributor Nur Laura Caskey. Ricki Lake. Jerry Springer. Judge Judy...

May 02, 2013

Propelling Iran’s Bad Rep

When I was growing up in a small city on Canada’s East Coast, many of...

May 01, 2013

Saudi Women at the Helm: Beneficiaries of the Arab Spring

For the past two years, sweeping political changes in parts of the Middle East have...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Sri Lanka: “When Sleeping Women Wake, Mountains Move”

This post was written by guest contributor Hafsa, and originally published at Sisterhood. Last June,...

April 10, 2013

Stripped of History: Palestinian Women’s Resistance

This post was written by guest contributor Rana Nazzal (@zaytouni_rana). I attended a talk last month...

April 09, 2013

A Clash of Principles: Examining the Niqab in Canadian Courts

This post was written by guest contributor Maria Salman. In 1992, a young woman gathers...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Malala and the Media: Not Black and White

This post was written by guest contributor Ossob. Looking back at recent media attention on...

February 22, 2013

Zero Dark Thirty: A Tale of Bias and Burqas

This post was written by guest contributor Emaan Majed. The scene opens on a bustling...

February 21, 2013

The Media and the Headscarf: Kosovo Public Schools Edition (not the final episode)

This post was written by guest contributor Asifa Akbar. In the last couple of weeks,...