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Friday Links

British Pakistani Azi Ahmed has written a book called 'Worlds Apart', about her experience as...

April 2015

April 10, 2015

Friday Links

A local council in Victoria, Australia asked non-Muslim women to wear hijabs to raise awareness...

April 03, 2015

Friday Links

Tajik state television has aired a documentary that alleges that prostitutes in the country have...

February 2013

February 19, 2013

Tabloid Dawah, Make Me A Muslim!

When I think of Britain, I don't think of a society so "rife" with promiscuity and drunkenness that...

January 2013

January 02, 2013

Reading Between the Lines: Two Takes on British Women’s Unemployment

Earlier in December, the Guardian reported on a recent UK-based report—the “All Party Parliamentary Group...

June 2012

June 12, 2012

“Lost” Girls Are Not Sex Objects – Whatever Their Race: Part II

In light of several interesting comments to my previous post on the Rochdale “grooming” case,...

March 2011

March 02, 2011

Same-Sex Muslim Marriages Coming to Mosque Near You?

In the last few years, the international emphasis on locating social rights within the Qur’an...

January 2011

January 31, 2011

Boy vs. Girl: “Pure” Islam or Purely Sanctimonious?

Na'ima B. Robert’s second book, “Boy vs. Girl” is set in a South Asian community...

November 2010

November 17, 2010

Lauren Booth Converts to Islam and Insanity Ensues

Lauren Booth, half sister of Tony Blair's wife Cherie Booth, a human rights activist and...

November 09, 2010

Note to British Press: Fanning Islamophobic Flames isn’t Journalism

This week, Roshonara Choudhry was convicted of attempted murder for stabbing her local MP twice...

September 2010

September 01, 2010

Last Say on Niqab Should be From a Woman Who Wears It. Obviously.

I took the a brief moment from work to watch a 12-minute segment on BBC's...

August 2010

August 19, 2010

State of the (Superhero) Nation: Faiza Hussein in British Comics

Faiza Hussain is a British Muslim super heroine of Pakistani descent, introduced in the 2008-2009...

March 2010

March 16, 2010

The Green Scare: Muslim Immigrants as Britain’s Welfare Queens

British tabloids are often accused of offering hysterical coverage of major and inconsequential events alike.*...

February 2010

February 24, 2010

An Interview with Emma Tarlo, Author of Visibly Muslim

Last week, I reviewed Emma Tarlo's book Visibly Muslim: Fashion, Politics, Faith. This week, I...

February 08, 2010

The Headscarf as Cultural Barometer: Emma Tarlo’s Book on Hijab

In her new book, entitled Visibly Muslim: Fashion, Politics, Faith, Emma Tarlo captures the diversity...

December 2009

December 09, 2009

Making an Egg-xample of Baroness Warsi

The U.K.'s Conservative Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion Baroness Sayeeda Warsi was pelted with eggs...

September 2009

September 15, 2009

Ramadhan Book Club: Our Stories, Our Lives

Our Stories, Our Lives is an anthology of a diverse group of women in Bradford,...

October 2008

October 29, 2008

Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice: Muslim Women’s Discussion in Britain

Spiced Spare Ribs! A Woman's Question Time was a refreshing hour-long panel/audience discussion that touched...

October 01, 2008

Na’ima B. Robert takes us behind the veil

Normally, whenever I see anything with the phrase "Behind the veil" I automatically cringe and...

September 2008

September 29, 2008

Whose Muslim Life?

The Guardian's Life and Style section has a biweekly series called This Muslim Life. The...

September 10, 2008

Dispatches Undercover: Islamophobia meets the Muslimahs

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