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Turkish author Selin Tamtekin publishes a fictional book that deals frankly with a Turkish woman’s sexuality, and everybody gets their panties in a twist.
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A review of Margot Badran’s latest book Feminism beyond East and West – New Gender Talk and Practice in Global Islam.
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Muslim students organize Scarves for Solidarity event to showcase hate crime incidents toward hejabis.
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Women’s rights activists in Bahrain work to make sure the recently-set minimum marriage age is not repealed.
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Women in Egypt don’t always want to hurry up and get married; a career is just as fulfilling, thank you very much.
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Author Jim Zackey looks at how women fare in Al Jazeera’s network.
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Musharraf institutes emergency rule and Benazir Bhutto is pissed.
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A U.S. program aims to cure AIDS in Africa has a bit of success in Rwanda.
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We’re still not done with this?! Kelly McParland looks at the debate about niqab in Canada, and why it’s really just a heap of bigotry wrapped in politics.
- Estaghfirallah. A Muslim woman in Russia loses an eye as a result of an Islamophobic attack.
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A douchebag who assaulted a Muslim women isn’t given jail time because he said he’s sorry.
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A U.S. radio host goes on an Islamophobic tirade. They fired Don Imus for calling African women “nappy-headed hos”; why doesn’t this jackass get fired, too?
- A Muslim woman who was verbally abused by an unknown man gets his license plate number and indicts his ass.
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Maha Akeel discusses the infrastructural faults that take Saudi women’s adult rights away from them.
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Iran’s Supreme Leader urges police to keep up with their crackdowns on “bad hejab.” Why don’t you just leave the sisters alone, man?
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Muslim women in Tibet stage a demonstration to protest a murder attempt over a dowry. YEAH!
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A Jordanian activist’s fight against honor killings in her region.
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Women in predominately Muslim countries struggle for equality, according to the World Economic Forum.
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Goodbye to freedom of speech in Britain: a Muslim woman is arrested and charged with being a terrorist because she wrote some poems that she thought “sounded cool.”