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November 2015

November 26, 2015

#PrayforParis, Muslim Women and Third World Violence

Upon learning about the Paris attacks and the #PrayforParis hashtag that emerged, I felt many...

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 20, 2015

“Why Helpless?” Victims of Racist Attacks Are Not Just Victims

A few days ago, as part of an event hosted by Columbia Journalism school, Nahed...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

Pick Up Artists: Veiling Misogyny with Islam

*Trigger Warning: Rape, Sexualized Violence, Misogyny* Toronto boasts a wonderfully diverse population. It is probably...

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 27, 2015

Is Islamophobia Real?

A few weeks ago, I was meeting a friend of a friend for the first...

December 2014

December 23, 2014

A Potential Burqa Ban at the Federal Level in Switzerland

The optimism in my last post, at least for Switzerland, has been tempered with news...

July 2014

July 01, 2014

“Not Even Birthday Cake?” Or, Coping With (Non-Muslims’) Reactions to Ramadan

This guest post by Nahida was originally published at the fatal feminist. When I was...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

Qatar’s Modest Proposal: Dignity or Diversion?

Originally published at Aquila Style. Qatar has revived a modesty campaign dating from 2012, when it...

April 2014

April 03, 2014

“Hijabi Experiments”: Are They Enough to Change America’s Perception on Hijab?

Every time we think this discussion about hijab and burqas has ended, the internet surprises...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

The Art of “Guilt-ing” Muslim Women into (Un)Covering

I am not a hijabi. My choice is not religious or political, but rather cultural....

February 2014

February 13, 2014

Mothering in an Age of Gendered Islamophobia

This post was originally published at wood turtle. This is the second post in my series...

February 11, 2014

Veil Stereotypes: Constructing and Distorting Muslim Women

This post was first published at wood turtle. Last summer I spoke at a conference about some...

December 2013

December 03, 2013

Are Converts News?

Growing up in Mexico, I had a very rudimentary understanding of religion and religious diversity....

November 2013

November 28, 2013

Open Letter to Daphne Bramham on Women’s Soccer… and Burqas

I recently penned a letter to a Canadian journalist whose article was sent to me...

October 2013

October 02, 2013

And the Hijabs and Niqabs Won’t Go Away!

During a period of time right after my conversion to Islam, I contemplated the idea...

April 2013

April 29, 2013

Sri Lanka: “When Sleeping Women Wake, Mountains Move”

This post was written by guest contributor Hafsa, and originally published at Sisterhood. Last June,...

April 02, 2013

The Subtleties of Being Caught in the Crossfire

This post was written by guest contributor Amina Jabbar (@AminaJabbar). Amina Jabbar, Twitter handle: @AminaJabbar...

February 2013

February 25, 2013

Would the Real Muslim Woman Please Stand Up?

Editor's Note: This post was written by Yasmin Ali. I apologise for not including her name...

February 22, 2013

Zero Dark Thirty: A Tale of Bias and Burqas

This post was written by guest contributor Emaan Majed. The scene opens on a bustling...

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 24, 2012

Book Review: The Islamophobia Industry

Nathan Lean’s book The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims is a...

July 2012

July 10, 2012

Apple and its Islamophobic Thesaurus

This post was written by guest contributor Arwa Aburawa. About a week ago, I was...

April 2012

April 11, 2012

Islamophobia in Transnational Feminist Discourses

Around 4,000 academics, scholars and activists gathered from March 16-18th at Pace University’s annual Left...

April 04, 2012

What Killed Shaima Alawadi?

This post was written by guest contributor Maheen Nusrat. On March 24th, 2012, a 32-year-old...

August 2011

August 02, 2011

Smearing Farha Ahmed

In June, a small business lawyer and politician named Farha Ahmed was in a run-off...

July 2011

July 12, 2011

Obligatory Richard Dawkins Post

So Richard Dawkins is an asshat. Anyone surprised? Here's the comment he left on a...

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...

June 06, 2011

The Sensational Story That Wasn’t: Reports Of ‘Stoning’ Death Of Ukrainian Girl Turn Out To Be False

This was written by Farangis Najibullah and originally published at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. RFE