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June 2011

June 15, 2011

Why Did Tom MacMaster Choose to be “A Gay Girl” Blogging from Damascus?

So the whole thing turned out to be a hoax. Throughout the last few weeks,...

June 02, 2011

Facebook isn’t the Final Frontier for Female Drivers in Saudi Arabia

On June 17th, women in Saudi Arabia plan to take to the streets—they’re going to...

May 2011

May 31, 2011

A Gay Girl in Damascus Tells It Like It Is

Amina Abdullah is being celebrated as the unlikely voice of Syria’s revolution. She is a...

May 23, 2011

Shutting Down Misconceptions about Clothing & Culture’s Effect on Breast Cancer

Earlier this month, Ms. Magazine ran an article that looked at breast cancer stigma in...

May 18, 2011

Jezebel Turns Osama bin Laden’s Daughter into a Killing Machine

Though one expects a whopping media event like the death of Osama Bin Laden to...

April 2011

April 25, 2011

NPR’s Dejabbing Sideshow

Is it just me, or has this spring seen a lot of de-jabbing articles lately?...

March 2011

March 16, 2011

Ni Putes Ni Soumises: Experiments in Online Activism

This was written by Lobna Hadji and originally appeared at OWNI.eu, Digital Journalism. I wasn’t...

February 2011

February 21, 2011

Women’s Voices in the Revolutions Sweeping the Middle East

Google executive Wael Ghonim became one of the faces of the Egyptian revolution through the...

February 18, 2011

Muslim Dating Sites and the Technology of Marriage, Part IV

Monday and Tuesday, we examined some Muslim matrimonial sites. Yesterday, we conducted an experiment looking...

February 17, 2011

Muslim Dating Sites and the Technology of Marriage, Part III

Yesterday we finished introducing you to a few Muslim dating (or “matrimonial”) sites. Today, we...

February 16, 2011

Muslim Dating Sites and the Technology of Marriage, Part II

Yesterday we introduced you to online Muslim matchmaking world and a few popular websites. Today...

February 15, 2011

Muslim Matchmaking Sites and the Technology of Marriage, Part I

Muslimah Media Watch thanks Saad Mubarak Almutairi for his contributions to this research. As marriage...

January 2011

January 24, 2011

Semra Çelebi’s Double Trouble with Hijab

Semra Çelebi's Facebook page "I took off my hijab" shares her decision to remove her...

January 17, 2011

Women in Tunisia’s Revolution

On Friday, the President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia fled his homeland as it...

December 2010

December 30, 2010

Burqa Woman Blunder? Saad Haroon’s Parody

Parts of the blogosphere appear to be in a tizzy over a recent parody of...

December 06, 2010

Gareth Compton’s Tweet: A Stone’s Throw from Islamophobia

Last month, Tory councilor Gareth Compton was arrested and later released on bail for writing...

November 2010

November 26, 2010

No need to go undercover to get to know Muslims

Salam alaikum, readers! I'm traveling for the next week, and your regularly scheduled Friday Links...

November 24, 2010

Dutch as Such: “Delfts Blauw Meets Hijab”

“Delfts blauw meets hijab” is the title of a new Dutch documentary analyzing the experience...

November 23, 2010

Critical Mass of Badass: “Badass Muslimahs”

A recent addition to the thousands of Tumblrs intended mostly for the edification of their...

November 18, 2010

The One Day, One Struggle Campaign

November 9th was the second international “One Day, One Struggle” campaign, organized by the Coalition...

November 08, 2010

Rediscovering “Undercover”: Cassidy Herrington and Hijab Tourism

Kentucky Kernel writer Cassidy Herrington wore the hijab for the entire month of October. She...

November 04, 2010

The Seventh Annual Brass Crescent Awards

Salam alaikum, readers! This year's Brass Crescent Award nominations are out, and MMW is proud...

November 01, 2010

Combat Garb: Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things

Recently, NPR analyst Juan Williams was quoted as saying, “…when I get on the plane,...

October 2010

October 27, 2010

Black Polyester: Nuance and Niqab?

"I wanted to own the article of clothing that was being talked about," Jonas Otterbeck...

October 19, 2010

Free Samar: Saudi Bloggers Rally for Samar Al Badawi

When 32-year-old divorcee Samar Al Badawi went to Jeddah court to challenge a “filial ingratitude”...

October 12, 2010

Guiding Blight: The Real Girl’s Guide to Everything

The Real Girl’s Guide to Everything Else, Strike.TV’s peppy new Web series, first struck me...

October 05, 2010

Does NiqaBitch Enrich the Burqa Ban Debate?

With articles in Der Spiegel, Rue89, The Telegraph, and a YouTube video in recent weeks,...

September 2010

September 21, 2010

3ayza Atgawez: A “Spinster Crisis” Comedy

One of the most anticipated Ramadan series this year was 3ayza Atgawez, (“I Want to...

September 07, 2010

Awesome New Website: Hijab and the City

Founded by two sisters in 2008, the French webzine Hijab and the City has a...

August 2010

August 25, 2010

“Report from a Pashtun Teen” in the New York Times

After reading Nicholas Kristof and Sheryll WuDunn’s Half the Sky earlier this year, I began...