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Mohja Kahf discusses how Muslim women are viewed in U.S. media.
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Alefia Hussain of the Daily Times looks at what Pakistani elections have to offer women.
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The Dutch government decides not to enact an outright ban on the burqa, but seeks to discourage women from wearing it.
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Sultan Qaboos University in Oman studies women’s participation in sports.
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Muslim women in Calgary, Canada, defend their mosque from complaints of gender-related breaches of human rights.
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One woman’s horrific battle with an abusive husband.
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An Indonesian woman who was reported as executed turns up at the Indonesian embassy—alive.
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Al-Qaeda sends death threats to Asala Nasri warning her not to perform in Yemen on Valentine’s Day. But they didn’t send any threats to her male stage partner.
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Spain’s Partido Popular (a conservative party) plans on banning head scarves (among other things) if they gain power in the March 9 elections.
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U.S.-style universities in Qatar build bridges for women’s education.
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Maura J. Casey discusses the closure of Iranian feminist magazine Zanan.
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Remember those awesome posts we wrote about veil fetish art? The Pinup Shop Blog has an interesting take on veil fetishes. Caution: maybe not safe for work.
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Rajaa Alsanea describes what Valentine’s Day means to her as a Saudi woman.
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Malalai Joya speaks to The Independent about how men in Afghanistan are twisting Islam to take rights away from women.
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Muslim women in India learn about the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act.
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Saudi women look for jobs in Kuwait: brain drain or Gulf countries looking out for each other?
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One young girl hopes to become Afghanistan’s next singing superstar.
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Alleged assault of women and girls who lived/worked at a Muslim-owned bakery went on for more than thirty years before anyone did anything about it.
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Film director Hana Makhhmalbaf kicks ass at this year’s film festival in Berlin, Germany.
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MidEastYouth interviews Samira, an electronica artist.
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A Saudi woman seeks a divorce from her French husband.
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An Iranian woman who was convicted of murdering her husband’s first wife is let off for “flaws in the original investigation.”
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The New York Times profiles Turkish lawyer Fatma Benli.
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Mona Eltahawy and Ayesha Khan discuss exactly why Sharia in the U.K. isn’t a good idea for Muslim women.
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The emirate of Sharjah, UAE, bans female mannequins.
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A Saudi woman who was accused of practicing witchcraft will be executed. Human Rights Watch has appealed to the king to stop her execution. I wasn’t able to find anything on the site that describes how we can help, so if you have any links to information or petitions, post ‘em!
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Bilkis Bano, a woman who endured serious attacks during the Gujarat rampage a few years ago, still fights for her justice. May Allah grant it to her!
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Eleven Muslim women in Mississauga, Canada, graduate from their lifeguard training program. Their aim is
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Photographer Tasha Hakeem discusses her art, which aim to humanize women in the Middle East and Brazil.
- The U.N.’s expert on violence against women, Yakin Erturk, gives Saudi Arabia a few pointers for how to improve Saudi women’s lives.
- The president of the Association of Moroccan Women in Italy makes some serious claimsItaly. about the state of Muslim women in
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UNICEF finds that rape is becoming an epidemic in war zones like Sudan.
- The Christian Science Monitor profiles two female Muslim directors who use their films to bring women’s issues to light.