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A teenage Egyptian girl is shot in the head outside her home. May Allah give her peace.
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Wazhma Frogh is one bad-ass Afghan woman: she uses Islam to fight conservative Afghan cultural viewpoints on women’s rights. Barikallah!
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The body of Guinean former supermodel and activist against female genital cutting, Katoucha Niane, was found in the Seine River in France.
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A woman was told she could take off her headscarf or leave a New Orleans mall. WTF?
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A Muslim woman finds that attending a Catholic school doesn’t hurt her faith or principles.
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Hyderabad’s all-female Shari’a court provides women with a place to turn to when they’re not sure that male court will give them justice.
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Imad Mughniyeh’s widow denies that Syria played a role in her husband’s death, despite what we reported last Friday. (shrug)
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Al-Ahram finds some incredibly disconcerting views about rape and sexual assault in Egypt.
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The Human Rights Commission will appoint Saudi women as board members.
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An Iranian woman sues to get her dowry of 124,000 roses.
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The New York Times puts a human—often female—face on the war in Sudan.
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Yemeni women demonstrate to demand Islamic and Arab governments to cut dies with Denmark in the wake of their reprinting of the cartoons insulting the Prophet.
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Monia Mazigh speaks out on the Status of Women in Canada’s budget cuts and rights for new immigrants.
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Lebanon’s The Daily Star discusses the lack of a unified women’s movement in Egypt.
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Umm Kulthoum’s favorite pearl necklace is about to be auctioned off for a king’s ransom.
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Malaysia jails a Muslim woman for teapot worship.
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Over a year since Hamda Abu Ghanem’s death, there is justice: her brother is sentenced to 16 years for aiding in her honor killing.
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A Nigerian man is sentenced to jail after admitting that he dressed up as a woman.
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The British army investigates the death of an Iraqi woman in Basra.
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Shelina Zahra Janmohamed calls for a “womelution.” A very good read.
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The Coup Magazine speaks with Waris Dirie, the UN special ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation and head of the Waris Dirie Foundation.
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Turkmenistan plans to reward mothers who give birth to more than eight children.
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The Canadian Islamic Congress hosted a women-only day to celebrate International Women’s Day.
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Parvaneh Osanloo condemns the Iranian authorities for her husband’s harsh detention.
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Women in Nigeria lobby for women’s rights to be formalized in Nigeria’s constitution.
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Shabana Mir talks about how not to “rescue Muslim women.”
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On the benefits of marketing cosmetics to a female Muslim demographic.
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Muslim women are detained for violent protests against the police in Hyderabad, India.
- Silent Rant examines forced marriage within the British community.
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Hind Ata of The Arab Women Organisation of Jordan believes that Jordanian women still face a lot of barriers.
- AKI looks at the impact of female influence on Pakistani politics.
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Malaysia’s oldest candidate, an 89-year-old woman, goes online to campaign.