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August 2010

August 24, 2010

Will the Real ‘Carrie Bradshaw of the Middle East’ Please Come Forward?

This post was written by M. Lynx Qualey and originally appeared on her blog Arab...

August 18, 2010

Between Satire and Stereotype: Gina Dirawi

Khadidje, Fadumah, Ruqaya, Fippan and Bettan are all characters created by blogger Gina Dirawi, a...

July 2010

July 19, 2010

Coverage of “Fashionable” Muslim Women Cramps Our Style

While the front pages of newspapers feature Muslim women in flowing black abayas, burqas, and...

July 14, 2010

A Family Affair: Afshan Azad’s Assault

When I watched Afshan Azad entering the Yule Ball as Padma Patil with Ron Weasley...

June 2010

June 22, 2010

Make-up Shake Up: YouTube’s Muslim Make-up Sensation

The MMW Friday link lists often highlights the disparity between non-Muslim perception of Muslim women's...

April 2010

April 26, 2010

Kuwait’s “Arab Times” Apparently Amused by a Maid’s Rape

This was originally published at Migrant Rights. On April 10th, Kuwait’s Arab Times reported about...

April 06, 2010

On the brink of reductionism

This was written by Azmat Khan and originally published at AltMuslimah. After years of critique...

April 05, 2010

Homeland Insecurities: Nel Hedayat and Afghanistan

The BBC documentary Women, Weddings, War and Me follows 21-year-old British Afghan Nel Hedayat (pictured...

March 2010

March 29, 2010

Cherchez la Femme: Who is She in Lebanon

Who is She in Lebanon, an online database with profiles of notable contemporary Lebanese women,...

March 18, 2010

Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda: Islam as Rehab for Women

British novelist Martin Amis has expressed regret that his late sister did not embrace Islam...

March 17, 2010

Nasir’s Nikah: One Woman’s Marriage Contract

Ayesha Nasir's recent article on Slate about signing her religious marriage contract in Pakistan tells...

March 09, 2010

Drastic Plastic: emel Focuses on Women and Body Image

Very seldom does Muslim media produce quality critical analysis of issues facing Muslim women. But emel...

February 2010

February 01, 2010

68 Percent of Saudi Girls Drop Last Name on Facebook

This was written by Iman al Khaddaf and originally appeared in Asharq Alawsat. Are you...

January 2010

January 26, 2010

The Poor White Women: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on White Female Converts

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is Muslim. In her articles she often likes to tell you this in...

January 25, 2010

Newsweek Turns a Widow into a Terrorist Mastermind

Christopher Dickey’s analysis of an interview with Defne Bayrak (pictured below), the wife of the...

January 20, 2010

From Bikinis to Burkas: How to Write Another Clichéd Tell-All Exposé

It’s hard not to judge a book by its cover, or in this case, an...

January 13, 2010

Take this Hijab and Love It

This post was written by Jillian C. York, and originally published in the Winter 2009...

December 2009

December 17, 2009

The Science of Beating a Dead Horse: The Christian Science Monitor’s Hijab Series

Recently, The Christian Science Monitor published a series of articles centered around the hijab. While...

December 09, 2009

Ricci Worries, Wonders About us Poor Muslim Women

Reading Claudia Ricci’s scatterbrained piece in The Huffington Post about text message divorcing was not...

December 07, 2009

The Afghan Women Tug of War

This was written by Frau Sally Benz and originally published at Feministe. Earlier this week,...

October 2009

October 22, 2009

The Revolution Will not be Sexualized: More on Seyran Ates

German-Turkish writer Seyran Ates thinks Islam needs a sexual revolution. This might seem a little...

October 21, 2009

Whose Revolution? Critiquing Seyran Ates and her Islamic Sexual Revolution

The calls of lawyer, activist, and writer Seyran Ates for a sexual revolution in the...

October 08, 2009

Behind the Globe and Mail’s Coverage of Women in Kandahar: Part 2

This is my second post covering the Globe and Mail's series on women in Kandahar,...

October 01, 2009

Behind the Globe and Mail’s Coverage of Women in Kandahar: Part 1

This post is the first of two that will analyze the recent Globe and Mail...

September 2009

September 14, 2009

The Fight of the Century: Chesler vs. Wolf

This was originally published at my personal site. Phyllis Chesler and Naomi Wolf have gotten...

September 01, 2009

Hot Shots: Complex Magazine Ranks Hot Muslim Women

“Sara, I could never get with a Muslim girl, how do they make you guys...

August 2009

August 18, 2009

Women’s Day in South Africa

Since 1994, South Africa celebrates National Women's Day every year on the 9th of August,...

August 10, 2009

Judge Judy: Judy Bachrach Plays Judge, Jury, and Executioner

Some articles are fairly subtle in their Islamophobia, others less so. Judy Bachrach's article "Twice...

July 2009

July 21, 2009

Tina Brown and Hillary Clinton’s Burqa

This was written by Allison McCarthy and originally appeared at GlobalComment. Tina Brown’s ploys for...

July 13, 2009

How Do You Soak Yours: Burqa Apparently Soaked in Blood

This originally appeared on Safiya's blog Outlines. A lot of the discourse of Muslim women...