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September 2008

September 10, 2008

Dispatches Undercover: Islamophobia meets the Muslimahs

Last year, the British program Dispatches went undercover in a Mosque in Britain to expose...

September 01, 2008

One on One interviews Muna Abu Sulayman

First, Ramadan mubarak to all MMW readers! I know that Fatemeh said that already, but...

August 2008

August 27, 2008

Noor-Mania

"Mohannad is a hottie" is the answer I got when I asked my tween cousins...

August 25, 2008

By the Pound: Racism in the Wrestling Ring

Last night, as I was flipping through the channels, I stopped on the Spike network,...

August 07, 2008

Getting on the Soap Box: Noor and Women’s Rights

We hope to have a longer analysis once Ethar is available in mid-August, but the...

August 04, 2008

“No Reservations” Does Jeddah

When I first heard people mentioning that Anthony Bourdain, who has a travel show called...

July 2008

July 31, 2008

Be My Muslim Girlfriend

Recently Mara Brock Akil, creator and producer of one of my favourite shows, Girlfriends, was...

July 22, 2008

Gay and Muslim!? Yes, It’s True!

I saw this documentary, called Gay Muslims, quite a while ago...it came out more than...

July 03, 2008

Group Dynamics: Muslim women on The Agenda

This is a few of months late but I just discovered this episode of The...

June 2008

June 11, 2008

Dangerous Minds: Ameera Joins the Dark Side

The writers of As the World Turns are getting tired of calm, obedient Ameera. The...

June 04, 2008

Death to Old Stereotypes, Please

This may not be timely, but it makes up for it in offensiveness. Watch this...

June 03, 2008

Outlines Review: Women in Black, Episode 4

This was written by Safiya, and originally appeared at Outlines. This week the programme...

May 2008

May 26, 2008

Outlines Review: Women in Black, Episode 3

This was written by Safiya, and originally published at Outlines. You can see earlier reviews...

May 12, 2008

She’s Funny That Way: Interviews With Muslim Comedians Tissa Hami & Maysoon Zayid

Yesterday, PBS aired a special called Stand Up: Muslim American Comics Come of Age. Maysoon...

April 2008

April 30, 2008

“World” Keeps Turning Over Stereotypes

Last month we wrote about the introduction of a Muslim character on the popular American...

March 2008

March 19, 2008

Soap Opera “Ameera” Sings Off-Key about Iraqi Women

MMW thanks Anne for the tip!The soap opera As the World Turns has recently introduced...

March 17, 2008

CNN’s Special on Women in Iraq: Painting Iraqi Women With the Victim Brush

On Saturday and Sunday, CNN ran a program called On Deadly Ground: The Women of...

March 06, 2008

Interview with LMOTP’s Sitara Hewitt

"Muslim Comedy Prescribes Women's Lib" By Bill Harris. This originally appeared here. Women's lib is...

January 2008

January 31, 2008

They’re Right. Terrorism Really Does Not Have Any Religion

MMW thanks Jessamy for the tip!Recently we were directed to a series of television commercials...

January 17, 2008

I have a crush on a boy in my Qur’an class

I thought since I haven’t written about Little Mosque on the Prairie for awhile, why...

December 2007

December 25, 2007

Sexy Arabs Exposed!

Muslimah Media Watch thanks Safiya for the tip! The U.K.’s Channel 4 is airing a...

December 04, 2007

Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: MTV Looks at Arranged Marriages

I usually avoid MTV because of its basic lack of programming that interests me. This...

November 2007

November 08, 2007

Be My Guest: Zaynab Hifni Interviewed on Saudi TV

Muslimah Media Watch thanks Melinda for the tip! Zaynab Hifni talks about her books, her...

November 05, 2007

Commercial Value: Muslims in Public Service Announcements

Here are some pretty awesome public service announcements. They’re in English, and I’m assuming for...

November 03, 2007

Special Friday Post: Britz Bombs

On October 31st, British television aired the two-part drama Britz, “a fictitious drama about two...

November 01, 2007

Putting Words in Our Mouths

Buthayna Nasser, a Saudi TV broadcaster, debates excellently about her rights and equality to man...

October 2007

October 16, 2007

Melodrama Queens

Along with Ramazan and Eid come those funny programs that they show every year: the...

October 09, 2007

Reuters Gives Afghan Women a Makeover

Jon Hemming for Reuters reports that a city in Afghanistan has its own answer to...

October 04, 2007

Little Mosque Begins Again

So the new season of Little Mosque on the Prairie began in Canada tonight on...

October 01, 2007

CNN’s Islamophobia

So I just barely got around to watching CNN’S God’s Warriors. I know it’s old...