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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...

June 2012

June 04, 2012

Stop Using Us: Women’s Votes in the Egyptian Presidential Elections

During the Egyptian elections campaigning, women were, of course, targeted by those looking for votes....

February 2012

February 02, 2012

Revisiting the Revolution: How Far Have Egyptian Women Come?

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011: the day thousands of Egyptians—Christians and Muslims, men and women, young...

May 2011

May 05, 2011

An Interview with MMW’s Eman Hashim on Egypt

Muslimah Media Watch contributor Eman Hashim was in the middle of Egypt’s Tahrir Square for...

April 2011

April 18, 2011

Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story: Gender, Politics and the Nation

At first glance, the film “Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story” seems to provide another viewpoint...

January 2011

January 18, 2011

Swiss Miss: Temps Present’s Mixed Bag of Information

The Swiss political and media landscape is charged with loaded images of Muslim women. The...

December 2010

December 15, 2010

Increasing Muslim Women’s Significance through Mediatization, Part II

Yesterday, I went over the presentations at the NVIC conference “Female Actors in the Egyptian...

December 14, 2010

Increasing Muslim Women’s Significance through Mediatization, Part I

A very interesting workshop was organized on November 24-25 by the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo...

December 09, 2010

Fe-Mail Fail: Amy Mowafi’s Attempt to be Carrie Bradshaw

The desire to crown an intelligent, sexy-yet-fashionable lady as the Carrie Bradshaw of the Middle...

October 2010

October 07, 2010

Funny or Far-Fetched? Ghada Abdel Aal’s I Want to Get Married

It reads as if the pages were lifted right from the script of Mad Men....

September 2010

September 14, 2010

Using Laila ElBaradei as a Clear Smear

Egypt is gearing up for its presidential elections next year. As campaigns are off to...

March 2010

March 01, 2010

The Ball in the Egyptian State Council’s Court: Female Judges

In a reversal of Egypt’s recent trends regarding women in the judiciary, Egypt’s State Council...

January 2009

January 08, 2009

Egyptian Women Hanging out in Mosques

I came across an interesting Associated Press article a couple of days ago titled Egyptian...

December 2008

December 31, 2008

Kariman Hamzah: Giving us a Woman’s Interpretation of the Qur’an

In this past week's Friday links, Fatemeh mentioned that Al-Azhar University had for the first...

December 18, 2008

Egyptian Spinsters and Old Maids Sitting Happily on the Shelf

I am a 21-year-old spinster. Yes, a spinster at 21. In my country, although many...

September 2008

September 16, 2008

What NOT to do if you are a male feminist ally.

It can sometimes be interesting (i.e. RIDICULOUS) to hear the advice of a man on...

September 03, 2008

BBC vs the LA Times: Who did it better?

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a critique of a LA Times blog post...