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November 2015

November 20, 2015

Friday Links – American flag hijabs, hate crimes, refugee crisis

Saba Ahmed, the founder of the Republican Muslim Coalition, appeared on Fox News in an...

November 06, 2015

Friday Links

Emma Watson met with Malala Yousafzai in an interview posted online this week. I will...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

Women and Children First: How French Policies Impact Muslim Communities

This post is written by Guest Contributor, Sarabi N. Eventide (@SarabiNEventide). By the grace of...

October 23, 2015

Friday Links

Canada: MMW’s own Shireen Ahmed was on the CBC radio show The Current talking about...

October 15, 2015

Book Review: Faïza Zerouala’s Voices Behind the Veil

I am apparently on a book review kick for MMW, with my last post being...

August 2015

August 04, 2015

A Creeping Sharia Freakout: How France’s latest “Muslim Problem” Really Wasn’t One

As is usually the case in France, any time anything happens where Muslims could even...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

France’s Jessica Houara

This article, co-authored by Laurent Dubois (@soccerpolitics) and MMW's Shireen Ahmed, previously appeared in Sports...

May 2015

May 27, 2015

Long Skirts aren’t “secular” enough in France

I write a lot about France and its national psychosis over headscarves. I wrote my...

May 15, 2015

Friday Links

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

April 2015

April 21, 2015

Recent Muslimish News Coverage in the Geneva Daily Le Temps

Le Temps is the French part of Switzerland’s newspaper of record, and one of...

April 03, 2015

Friday Links

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

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 17, 2015

A proposed headscarf ban in the Swiss Canton of Valais

So apparently Swiss politicians, lacking in creativity, have nothing better to do than copy...

March 02, 2015

Review – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s Refusing the Veil

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s Refusing the Veil, part of the Provocations series by Biteback publishing, is a...

October 2014

October 29, 2014

No Culture for Niqabis

The French "niqab" ban (burqa ban, whatever ban…call it what you will) of October 2010...

November 2012

November 13, 2012

French Magazine Le Point’s Shameless Headline

France is and will always be my special soapbox, so I guess I shouldn’t be...

October 2012

October 01, 2012

Muslim Women Get Naked! Femen’s Topless Tactics and Muslim Women in France

Recently, Femen, the controversial Ukrainian feminist organization, has been established in France. Femen was founded...

August 2012

August 23, 2012

When Laïcité Goes Wrong, or When Burqa Checks Start Getting Real

Since the anti-burqa law (or whatever you want to call it, I can’t anymore) was...

May 2012

May 22, 2012

Change Is Now? No, Not Yet: Manuel Valls as France’s New Interior Minister

I was rather excited about Francois Hollande winning the French elections this month. I hoped...

April 2012

April 18, 2012

The French “Niqab Ban,” One Year On

A year ago this week, a French law came into effect banning face veils for...

June 2011

June 08, 2011

The DSK Rape Victim is Everything but a Victim, According to the Media

The media response to the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape charges is predictably horrific. The salacious gossip...

November 2010

November 25, 2010

The Doha Debates on The Burqa Ban

Last month, the Qatar Foundation’s Doha Debates took on the French niqab ban, discussing the...

October 2010

October 05, 2010

Does NiqaBitch Enrich the Burqa Ban Debate?

With articles in Der Spiegel, Rue89, The Telegraph, and a YouTube video in recent weeks,...

March 2010

March 15, 2010

Bérengère Lefranc’s “Un voile, Un certain moi de juin”

Un voile, Un certain moi de juin is the story of French artist Bérengère Lefranc's...

February 2010

February 04, 2010

Cold Comfort: Supporting Arguments don’t do Burqa Bans a Favor

The proposed French ban on facial coverings* worn by some Muslim women seems like it...

September 2009

September 10, 2009

The French (Dis)Connection: on the role of Media and Politics in the Burqa Ban

Aged patronizing feminists, young veiled victims (of Islamist threat), and endangered laïcité éternelle (everlasting secularism):...

June 2009

June 29, 2009

Sarkozy to the Rescue! France, Burqas, and the Question of “Choice”

As I'm sure many of you have seen already, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said last...

January 2009

January 26, 2009

The French Connection: France’s Newest Muslim Women’s Magazine

Muslimah Media Watch thanks Hijabtrendz for the tip! Those of you who speak French should...

January 12, 2009

Debating the morality of Rachida Dati

Ms. Rachida Dati, France’s first female Muslim minister, has been criticized for returning to work...