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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 16, 2015

Friday Links

Australia Monique Toohey, a Muslim psychologist, met with Australian Labor MPs on Wednesday to discuss...

August 2015

August 07, 2015

Friday Links

A recent study has shown the number of Saudi women who do not marry young has...

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...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

Friday Links

In an interview with the Huffington Post, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, CEO of Muslimgirl.net, explains how Muslim...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

The First Saudi Woman to become Editor-in-Chief: New Achievements and Challenges

On February 16, 2014, Khaled Almaeena announced his resignation as head of the editorial team...

October 2013

October 10, 2013

Thanks, Sheikh, But My Pelvis Is Fine

Editor’s note: I would like to welcome Nicole Hunter Mostafa, a past MMW guest contributor,...

May 2013

May 01, 2013

Saudi Women at the Helm: Beneficiaries of the Arab Spring

For the past two years, sweeping political changes in parts of the Middle East have...

October 2012

October 10, 2012

Nigerian Female Pilgrims Detained in Saudi Arabia

Two weeks ago, a dispute erupted between Saudi Arabia and Nigeria over the former's detainment...

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 28, 2012

Queendom of Saudi Arabia Actually a Result of Kneejerk Journalistic Illiteracy

About two weeks ago, my bulging eyes nearly met my falling jaw when I came...

July 2012

July 17, 2012

The “Problem” of Spinsterhood in the Gulf

Last month, one of my close friends in Dubai got engaged. She is 35, an...

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...

July 05, 2012

Saudi Women’s Right to Kick Balls

With the summer Olympics fast approaching (and truly, what place says summer better than London),...

March 2012

March 20, 2012

Saudi Female Students Spark a Revolution

On a quiet Saturday morning, while browsing the web for the day’s news, a story...

December 2011

December 07, 2011

Riding in Cars with Satan

2001: Driver’s Education on a warm spring day. Despite years of riding in cars, I...

November 2011

November 24, 2011

Roundtable: Amnesty UK’s Video on Saudi Women (and Men)

Editor's note: When Azra forwarded us this article, everyone had something to say. Below are...

November 16, 2011

Muslim Women In The Eye of the Camera

In a short interview in The New Yorker this past September, American photographer Lynsey Addario,...

November 07, 2011

The Saudi Sovereign and the Breast

This post was originally published at the interrogations of shamshouma. In the last few weeks,...

May 2011

May 09, 2011

Currents of Change for Women in Saudi Arabia

This was written by Maha Akeel and was originally published in Common Ground News Service....

October 2010

October 19, 2010

Free Samar: Saudi Bloggers Rally for Samar Al Badawi

When 32-year-old divorcee Samar Al Badawi went to Jeddah court to challenge a “filial ingratitude”...

August 2010

August 26, 2010

Putting Texts in Context: Saudi Text Tagging

Earlier this month, CNN Expansión reported that the Saudi government aimed to prohibit the Blackberry...

July 2010

July 13, 2010

An Open Letter to Maureen Dowd

Dear Maureen, I hear you’re back from your jaunt over in Saudi Arabia. Kudos to...

June 2010

June 07, 2010

Rowdy Saudis: MTV’s “Resist the Power: Saudi Arabia”

As part of the True Life series, MTV recently aired an episode titled, “Resist the...

January 2010

January 14, 2010

The Boy Who Cried “Witch!”: Saudis Investigate Domestic Workers for Witchcraft

Something decidedly medieval is in the air in Saudi Arabia. Fears of black magic and...

December 2009

December 09, 2009

Ricci Worries, Wonders About us Poor Muslim Women

Reading Claudia Ricci’s scatterbrained piece in The Huffington Post about text message divorcing was not...

November 2009

November 24, 2009

Driving Force: the n7nu Campaign in Saudi Arabia

The advertisement begins with a short video of a woman moving from the back seat...

November 18, 2009

Saudi Cartoonist Hana Hajar Sketches a Path for Female Cartoonists

Saudi cartoonist Hana Hajjar chats with MMW about work, her inspiration and challenging societal taboos.

September 2009

September 09, 2009

Someone to Watch Over Me: On the Saudi Guardianship Campaign

When a woman says, “My guardian knows what’s best for me,” what should we do?...