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Friday Links — February 15, 2008


Posted by fatemeh on 15 Feb 2008 / 0 Comment
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  • Mohja Kahf discusses how Muslim women are viewed in U.S. media.

  • Alefia Hussain of the Daily Times looks at what Pakistani elections have to offer women.

  • The Dutch government decides not to enact an outright ban on the burqa, but seeks to discourage women from wearing it.

  • Sultan Qaboos University in Oman studies women’s participation in sports.

  • Muslim women in Calgary, Canada, defend their mosque from complaints of gender-related breaches of human rights.

  • One woman’s horrific battle with an abusive husband.

  • An Indonesian woman who was reported as executed turns up at the Indonesian embassy—alive.

  • 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.

  • Spain’s Partido Popular (a conservative party) plans on banning head scarves (among other things) if they gain power in the March 9 elections.

  • U.S.-style universities in Qatar build bridges for women’s education.

  • Maura J. Casey discusses the closure of Iranian feminist magazine Zanan.

  • 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.

  • Rajaa Alsanea describes what Valentine’s Day means to her as a Saudi woman.

  • Malalai Joya speaks to The Independent about how men in Afghanistan are twisting Islam to take rights away from women.

  • Muslim women in India learn about the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act.

  • Saudi women look for jobs in Kuwait: brain drain or Gulf countries looking out for each other?

  • One young girl hopes to become Afghanistan’s next singing superstar.

  • 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.

  • Film director Hana Makhhmalbaf kicks ass at this year’s film festival in Berlin, Germany.

  • MidEastYouth interviews Samira, an electronica artist.

  • A Saudi woman seeks a divorce from her French husband.

  • An Iranian woman who was convicted of murdering her husband’s first wife is let off for “flaws in the original investigation.”

  • The New York Times profiles Turkish lawyer Fatma Benli.

  • Mona Eltahawy and Ayesha Khan discuss exactly why Sharia in the U.K. isn’t a good idea for Muslim women.

  • The emirate of Sharjah, UAE, bans female mannequins.

  • 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!

  • 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!

  • Eleven Muslim women in Mississauga, Canada, graduate from their lifeguard training program. Their aim is
    to give Muslim women a women-only space to swim. Barikallah!

  • 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
  • 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.

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