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November 2015

November 24, 2015

Book review: Jewels of Allah by Nina Ansary

When I first heard the title of Dr. Nina Ansary’s latest book, Jewels of Allah,...

November 13, 2015

Friday Links

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

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 14, 2015

Friday Links

Linda Sarsour is a woman in a hurry. Only 35, she has already helped to...

July 2015

July 31, 2015

Friday Links

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

May 2015

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 16, 2015

Review of Desert Dancer (2015)

Six years ago I attended a contemporary dance workshop, and while I’ve been dancing for...

May 2014

May 26, 2014

Hijab Removal, Iranian Women, and Freedom of Dress

This post was originally published at Aquila Style. The liberal feminist organisation Femen and its...

March 2014

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...

May 2013

May 02, 2013

Propelling Iran’s Bad Rep

When I was growing up in a small city on Canada’s East Coast, many of...

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...

October 2012

October 04, 2012

Facing Mirrors: Iranian Filmmaker Explores Trans* Identity in Iran

Transgender identities and trans* embodiment are topics that are generally ignored within many communities, and...

October 02, 2012

Powerful Actors or Oppressed “Others”?: Violent Muslim Women in the News

In recent news, Muslim women have been highlighted for their violent actions towards in men...

July 2012

July 16, 2012

The Right to Play or Creeping Sharia? FIFA Overturns its Headscarf Ban

FIFA has overturned its headscarf ban, enforced since 2007, on women playing soccer with their...

April 2012

April 05, 2012

Fashion Designers, How Not to Study Gender, and More on Iran’s Women Ninjas

An eclectic round-up of some articles of interest elsewhere on the internet: A Muslim participant...

March 2012

March 14, 2012

Updates from Elsewhere

We're sharing some excerpts today from a few different stories that relate to things we've...

February 2012

February 22, 2012

Playing on Old Fears: Coverage of Iran’s Female Ninjas

Amid speculations that Iran has made advances in nuclear technology for the purpose of making...

January 2012

January 04, 2012

Circumstance: Gender, Sexuality and the Power of Men in “Fundamentalist” Iran

After reading a couple of reviews (on FilmJabber and Afterellen.com) about Circumstance, a recent film...

July 2011

July 25, 2011

Brainless Badly Veiled Women

Golnaz Esfandiari writes about a cartoon by a hard-line news agency: "The cartoon suggests that...

February 2011

February 21, 2011

Women’s Voices in the Revolutions Sweeping the Middle East

Google executive Wael Ghonim became one of the faces of the Egyptian revolution through the...

January 2011

January 17, 2011

Women in Tunisia’s Revolution

On Friday, the President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia fled his homeland as it...

August 2010

August 23, 2010

A Woman Without Hijab is Like a Chair with Three Legs

If you still haven’t figured out that wearing black chadors will save your worldly soul...

July 2010

July 08, 2010

Unveil FAIL: The Backlash Against Fariba Davoodi, Part II

This post was written by Sara Khorshid Doost. You can read Part I here. The...

July 07, 2010

Unveil FAIL: The Backlash Against Fariba Davoodi, Part I

This post was written by Sara Khorshid Doost. Fariba Davoodi Mohajer is an Iranian women's...

June 2010

June 21, 2010

For Neda: HBO Documents the 2009 Iranian Elections

As I snuggled on the couch to watch HBO’s documentary on Neda Agha-Soltan, I knew...

May 2010

May 27, 2010

The Stoning of Soraya M.: A Review

Before watching The Stoning of Soraya M., I had already formed an opinion of it...

October 2009

October 15, 2009

Those Who Live in Glass Houses: Hamid Rahmanian’s The Glass House

The Glass House, directed by Hamid Rahmanian, is a documentary of the lives of a...

July 2009

July 21, 2009

Free Shadi Sadr, Uphold Women’s Rights

This guest post was written by Rochelle Terman. Shadi Sadr, the prominent Iranian lawyer and...

July 20, 2009

Dreyfuss and Iran’s “Women Commandos”

If you’ve been following coverage of the fallout from the recent Iranian elections, you have...

July 01, 2009

Sensationalist Film Exploits Important Human Rights Issue in Iran

This was written by Elise Auerbach and originally published on Human Rights Now, the Amnesty...