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Muslim feminist perspectives on International Women’s Day.
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Muslim women in Hyderabad, India, earn income through group cooperatives and microfinancing.
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Arab News looks at the difficult position of “married spinsters.”
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Women scholars and activists in Lucknow, India, draft a female-friendly nikahnama.
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Headscarf barrier lifted for those seeking Swiss citizenship.
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The Mansoojat Foundation helps put on a fashion show for traditional Saudi Arabian clothing.
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Arab News discusses the harmful implications of not allowing women to play sports.
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Radio Farda correspondent Parnaz Azima has been convicted by an Iranian court of “spreading propaganda” and is sentenced to one year in prison.
- U.A.E.’s Zayed University organizes a “Women as Global Leaders” conference.
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Papiya Sultana Alam talks about training to be the first female police officer from West Bengal.
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Inside Indonesia reviews Pieternella van Doorn-Harder’s book Women Shaping Islam: Reading the Qur’an in Indonesia.
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A group of Arab websites campaign against the hejab.
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A woman kills members of militants fighting against Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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Women for Women International reports that the situation for women in Iraq is a “national crisis.”
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A woman is pressured by her family to be a wedding singer instead of a physician because it pays better. Priorities, people.
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Saha profiles the Moroccan Women’s Song Project.
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GlobalComment’s Natalia Antonova interviews Dilara Hafiz, author of The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook.
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A Saudi woman posts a video of herself driving on YouTube in an effort to elicit a positive response from the Saudi government. See the video here.
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A woman gets her alimony after 20 years. Barikallah, at last!
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A mufti in Saudi Arabia talks a university into canceling a marathon for women. Boo!
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Imprisoned blogger Fouad al-Farhan’s daughter makes a heart-wrenching plea to see her father again.
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The Iranian womens karate team feels prepared for this year’s Morocco International Women’s Karate Championship.
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A young British woman who was forced into a marriage tells her story.
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Strong opinions and pushes for women’s equality in Muslim countries.
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Do you remember when a man was arrested after sending emails threatening to target Arab and Latino women in a shooting spree? Neither do I, because it wasn’t in the media.
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Al-Falasteenyia writes about how International Women’s Day doesn’t solve things for women.
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Former president Akbar Rafsanjani praises gains in women’s rights in Iran.
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MRzine publishes a statement of solidarity with Muslim women facing war and occupation.
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Saudi women refuse to let societal taboos hold them back.
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Zainab al-Suwaij speaks about growing up in Iraq and co-founding the American Islamic Congress.
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Saudi Arabia adds a female unit to the Commission for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice to patrol female-only areas.
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A father sabotages his daughters’ chances at getting married.
- The LA Times looks at domestic violence and threat of sex trafficking for women in Kosovo.
