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October 2015

October 16, 2015

Friday Links

Australia Monique Toohey, a Muslim psychologist, met with Australian Labor MPs on Wednesday to discuss...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

Friday Links

A year after she was elected as the Female Muslim MP in Malawi parliament, Aisha...

August 21, 2015

Friday Links

Muslim women in Morocco are demanding a female-only beach so they can enjoy the summer...

July 2015

July 31, 2015

Friday Links

Seven Muslim women from around the world are bicycling across Iowa as a way of...

June 2015

June 11, 2015

A Letter to Mona Eltahawy on “Headscarves and Hymens”

Dear Mona, Some of my fellow Muslimah Media Watch writers put together a roundtable about...

May 2015

May 15, 2015

Friday Links

Nadia Manzoor is on a crusade to use humor and honesty to talk about the...

May 14, 2015

A Roundtable on Mona Eltahawy’s Headscarves and Hymens

We will soon have a full review of Mona Eltahawy's Headscarves and Hymens: Why the...

May 08, 2015

Friday Links

England's first women-only mosque will open in Bradford, a 19th-century industrial boomtown and one of...

April 2015

April 25, 2015

Friday Links

Warner Bros. Studios officials allegedly told two Muslim women wearing headscarves they could not sit...

June 2014

June 09, 2014

The Sad Stories of Muslim Women in Pictures

My dad has been an avid photographer since I can remember. As a kid I...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Documenting Egypt’s Revolution: Al-Midan (The Square) Reviewed

Jehane Noujaim’s recent film, Al-Midan (translation: The Square), follows a group of Egyptian activists—many who...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

The “Story” of Suha Omar Ali

“I can’t follow the news anymore, it’s too much.” Over the last two years, I’ve...

October 17, 2013

Double Standards on Public Decency

My cousin’s daughter is smart. She recently summed a deeply rooted societal problem in few...

September 2013

September 12, 2013

The H Word: A Piece of Cloth Loaded with More Than It Can Bear?

I have to admit that hijab narratives in media turn me off. Whether because it...

August 2013

August 22, 2013

Women’s Involvement Is Nothing New

When you google the possible variations of these words: Women, Role & Arab Spring, you...

July 2013

July 18, 2013

Ramadan Resolutions, Revolving Revolutions: In One Year, Out the Other

A couple of years ago, I heard a story about an Egyptian woman who decided...

July 10, 2013

9 Things That Make Ramadan Memories Special to Me

Ramadan is here! And although its true essence is all about our pursuit of spiritual...

June 2013

June 17, 2013

Empowered Women in the Age of the Harem

“Backwards” is the word often associated with pre-modern ages, and “oppression” is the word that...

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...

May 15, 2013

Undermining the Justice of Sharia, from Granting Divorce to Female Breadwinners

A couple of weeks ago I came across this BBC Panorama story on “Women at...

April 2013

April 16, 2013

HarassMap: Using Social Media to Fight Sexual Harassment in Egypt

This post was written by guest contributor Yasmeen Nizamy. “Sexual harassment is a crime that's...

April 01, 2013

Nahdet Masr: Woman, Sphinx, and the Question of Modernity

In Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soeuif’s novel, The Map of Love, there is a scene that...

March 2013

March 14, 2013

Telling the Stories of Street Children in Cairo

This post was written by guest contributor Yasmeen Nizamy. The most basic rights: that’s what...

February 2013

February 04, 2013

Talking to White People (According to “Mike”)

A parody of Sex With Egyptian Women (According to “Mike”). Hat tip to Sara Salem...

September 2012

September 24, 2012

When Will the Revolutions in Syria and Egypt Come to TV Dramas?

For many of us, television drama can be an enriching part of our living experience,...

September 06, 2012

More about Sexual Harassment in Egypt

It is no secret that sexual harassment is a very dangerous phenomenon in Egypt streets....

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Rebels By Accident: Telling Muslim Girls’ Stories in Young Adult Fiction

“I don’t think there’s ever been a time in my life when I wanted to...

August 22, 2012

Wall of Shame: Ramadan Television in Egypt

Now that Ramadan is over, I can get it out of my mind and scream...

August 06, 2012

Ramadan in Egypt: A Personal Perspective

Previously, I told you about Ramadan in Cairo, Egypt in a general way. Now I'm...

July 2012

July 25, 2012

Ramadan in Egypt

Ramadan in Cairo, Egypt is always special in its very traditional way. You wait for...