Zeenat Rahman, a University of Chicago alumni, twisted the idea of The Vagina Monologues into something that could work for Muslim women. Rahman, knowing that Muslims are still misunderstood within the west, decided to make The Hijabi Monologues to help create awareness of Muslim women’s lives. Muslim women tell their stories, and despite the name, […]

Shahadeh Abu Arrar is looking for wife #9. He’s 58, a member of Israel’s Bedouin community, and already has 67 children by several wives (currently, he only has eight wives; he has others in the West Bank and he has divorced some, too). Two months ago, CNN and Secret Dubai Diary did a similar story […]

Along with Ramazan and Eid come those funny programs that they show every year: the soap operas. Sadly, I don’t have a satellite, and of course there aren’t any of those shows on American cable T.V., so I have to outsource for my criticism here. I found some good criticism about Arab dramas on a […]

Arab News reported that a new DVD entitled Gurlz vs. Guyz will be on sale over Eid. Gurlz vs. Guyz is a 12-minute long video that was based on a year-long survey on young Saudi men and their views on dating the opposite sex. The DVD is being released by Izzaty Islamy, which is a […]

Some links for Friday, October 12, 2007: A Saudi woman is sentenced to lashings for being raped. What the hell? Dr. Ruqaya Al Alwani is presented with the Tunisian President Award for her publication The Role of the Muslim Women in Development Al-Ahram argues that the Carnegie Endowment on International Peace’s recent publication on the […]

As you may have noticed, we’ve changed the name and site of the blog. I just added an ‘h’. That lack of an ‘h’ was really killing me. Sorry for the confusion for our loyal readers! I know that “muslima” and “muslimah” are the same things, but I just like it better with an ‘h’! […]

Jon Hemming for Reuters reports that a city in Afghanistan has its own answer to America’s Next Top Model. The news agency boasts that the television show “is breaking boundaries and revealing the beauty under the burqa.” (Thanks to NayLah for the tip!) But before going on to totally ignore which kind of boundaries are […]

Gender segregation is NOT a long-term solution to harassment, stares, or rape. It’s a tidy short-term solution, but it will not solve the reasons that men harass women; in fact, segregation may make harassment worse. Men of any race, religion, or nationality will harass a woman because they view women as acceptable targets—if men are […]

Here’s a really good review of The Kingdom. I’m not surprised by anything in the review, but I am curious about how Muslim women are portrayed in the film; I remember seeing a sloppily-placed cut of a Saudi niqabi somewhere in the commercial trailer. Has anyone wasted any money on this film? If you did, […]

Here are some links for 10/05/07: Sisters are doin’ it for themselves: some Muslim moms open a law firm. What’s new in Gulf abaya fashion. Didn’t we tell you? Colleges look at Muslim women’s memoirs that reinforce Western stereotypes. Two plays about Muslim women come to the U.S. The Veiled Monologues and Is.Man: two different […]