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November 2015

November 13, 2015

Friday Links

Afghanistan In Afghanistan, half of all deaths among women aged 15 to 49 are because...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

Friday Links

Afghanistan Afghan rights activist Aziza Rahimzada has been nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

Ignorant Solidarity with Muslim Sportswomen

Who doesn’t love stories and reports of young Muslims girls in Afghanistan, leaping through the...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

Friday Links

In an interview with the Huffington Post, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, CEO of Muslimgirl.net, explains how Muslim...

March 06, 2015

Friday Links

A group of Afghan men have marched through the capital Kabul in burkas to draw attention to...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

Book Review: I Am the Beggar of the World

Last month, I looked at Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy’s work profiling Afghan women poets...

March 2014

March 26, 2014

Words and Images of Afghan Women Poets

Earlier this month, Slate featured a photography-poetry project, “The Secret Lives of Afghanistan’s Female Poets.”...

March 12, 2014

Countering the “Musulmacho:” Drawing the Line between Humour and Inappropriate Commentary

A few months ago I was invited to like a Facebook page called Memes Feministas...

September 2013

September 03, 2013

Book Review: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Like Khaled Hosseini’s two earlier novels, The Kite Runner (2003) and A Thousand Splendid Suns...

June 2013

June 03, 2013

Book Review: The Honey Thief

“When I sleep, I dream like a Hazara” (The Honey Thief, p. 6). The Honey...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Muslim Women and Graffiti: Taking Art, Politics and Gender to the Streets

When I was a teenager, my dad and I used to enjoy looking at the...

December 2012

December 13, 2012

Afghan Women Post-American Occupation and the Saviour Discourse

After the almost 12-year American occupation, there has been a lot of speculation on the...

November 2012

November 08, 2012

Film Review: Unveiled Views

“When someone wants to be an artist, because they cannot let what’s going on around...

June 2012

June 05, 2012

Zarifa Qazizadah: Afghan Supergran

To people of a certain age, the word Supergran might bring to mind a Scottish...

April 2012

April 11, 2012

Islamophobia in Transnational Feminist Discourses

Around 4,000 academics, scholars and activists gathered from March 16-18th at Pace University’s annual Left...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

The Favored Daughter Reviewed

The Favored Daughter—One woman’s fight to lead Afghanistan into the Future, by Fawzia Koofi with...

December 2011

December 06, 2011

Women, War & Peace Reviewed

In October and November of this year, PBS aired a five part series, “Women, War...

November 2011

November 16, 2011

Muslim Women In The Eye of the Camera

In a short interview in The New Yorker this past September, American photographer Lynsey Addario,...

November 15, 2011

Films by Afghan Women Tell Real Stories of Struggle, Patience, and Hope

Women in Afghanistan tend to be depicted as enigmatic objects that defy human comprehension. Media...

July 2011

July 11, 2011

HBO’s “Love Crimes of Kabul”

HBO is set to air “Love Crimes of Kabul” at 9pm tonight as part of...

April 2011

April 20, 2011

A Review of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

For me, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s The Dressmaker of Khair Khana is a journalistic field story...

April 13, 2011

Just…Ugh.

And speaking of trash bags, here's a poster for Germany's International Human Rights ad campaign:...

January 2011

January 26, 2011

Wishing Upon an Afghan Star

The images that Afghanistan conjures are usually ones that mirror front-page stories of newspapers around...

January 11, 2011

Masking the Problem: Afghanistan’s “Niqab” Program

Just when I thought we were past discussing the experiences of Muslim women in dichotomies...

October 2010

October 14, 2010

However Tall the Mountain: Stories from an Afghan Girls’ Soccer Team

Named from an Afghan saying that “However tall the mountain, there’s always a road,” However...

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...

July 2010

July 06, 2010

Missionary Rhetoric: A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness

When Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale, a feminist dystopia set in a world run...

April 2010

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...

November 2009

November 18, 2009

One Afghan Woman’s Words: Malalai Joya’s Book Tour

Malalai Joya, an Afghan activist for women's rights (and many other things), was in Toronto...