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November 2015

November 13, 2015

Friday Links

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

October 2015

October 30, 2015

Friday Links

Afghanistan Afghan rights activist Aziza Rahimzada has been nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize...

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 01, 2015

Niqab as an #Elxn42 Issue? Ridiculous

This post originally appeared in New Canadian Media. The recent decision in Canada by the Federal...

July 2015

July 27, 2015

Is Islamophobia Real?

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

July 10, 2015

Friday Links

Following Malak Kazan's lawsuit, the Police Department has announced that it will be implementing a...

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...

April 2015

April 25, 2015

Friday Links

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

April 13, 2015

#ListenNotSave – Niqab in Canada

Last month Canadian social media went wild with covering puns...

April 09, 2015

On Sex Work and “Muslimness” as a Fetish

Before I go right into this post, I think I should make some things clear....

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 13, 2015

Friday Links

Various papers have been covering Canada's niqab controversy after Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that the...

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 2013

November 20, 2013

Effective Discussions on the Oppression of Women: Is the Burqa It?

For a few years now, I have been observing depictions of the veil, the niqab...

November 14, 2013

The Snore Heard ‘Round the World

A few days ago, my Facebook newsfeed was awash with people sharing articles about a...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

Take Off Your Veil to Rock the World

The daughter of a close friend recently turned 10, and I went to a children’s...

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...

September 2013

September 25, 2013

The Elephant in the Room: Niqabs in the Courtroom

A couple of years ago I attended a lecture delivered by Dr. Natasha Bakht at...

August 2013

August 21, 2013

Pink Burqas, Gagas and Madonnas

It gets me every time... it makes me upset and irrationally angry. The stereotyping, the...

July 2013

July 02, 2013

Iron(y) Man 3: Saving Muslim Women

Explosions, gripping fight scenes, artificial intelligence, funny one-liners, sexist playboy arrogance and close-ups of Robert...

April 2013

April 09, 2013

A Clash of Principles: Examining the Niqab in Canadian Courts

This post was written by guest contributor Maria Salman. In 1992, a young woman gathers...

March 2013

March 04, 2013

Rise of the Niqabi Criminal: Balaclavas, Burkas and Bank Robberies

On December 30 of last year, someone wearing a niqab threw acid in the face...

January 2013

January 15, 2013

“Islamically dressed” sex workers in a Christian nation

I was personally not aware that Malawi had a somewhat significant Muslim population when I...

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 09, 2012

Jellyfish Fantasies: The Creature with the Black Niqab Fetish

Like a horrific scene from a 1960s monster movie: unbeknownst to scientists on a fossil-hunting expedition...

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...

June 2012

June 25, 2012

Re-Humanize Me: Risky or Repetitive?

A couple weeks ago, I was walking with a friend, when she abruptly stopped listening...

May 2012

May 01, 2012

Responsibility as Representatives: A Need for Honest Reflection

In our roundtable on the Foreign Policy “sex issue” I spoke about the responsibility one...

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...