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Women in Iraq face mean streets when they drive.
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Abu Dhabi holds its first international fashion week, which include fashions from Rabia Z.
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The man who shot and killed Alia Ansari has been sentenced to jail.
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Muslim women in India get a new, more equitable marriage law.
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Mahboba Ahdyar braves the Taliban and conservative cultural mores to represent Afghanistan in the Beijing Olympics. Barikallah!
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Pedestrian examines the skewed political priorities of some Iranian women who migrate to the west.
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The third annual Women’s Milad Shareef Conference aims to counter images of women as second-class citizens in Islam.
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Elif Shafak makes the nomination for the British Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction for her book, The Bastard of Istanbul.
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Lima Sahar won third place in Afghan Star, Afghanistan’s version of American Idol.
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Under new guidelines issued in the U.K., Muslim doctors who wear niqab must be ready to remove their face veils to treat patients effectively.
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Saudi Arabia opens a hotel that is only for women.
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An Iranian woman who was sentenced to be stoned is released from her sentence and from jail. Barikallah!
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Fahmida Mirza has been named the speaker for the Pakistan People’s Party.
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Taslima Nasreen plans to leave India because of failing health.
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Voice of America looks an industry that is growing to meet the demand for fashionable headscarves in Turkey.
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Iranian tae kwan do champion Sara Khoshjamal gears up for the Beijing Olympics.
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Dr. Mona Mina heads the newest challenge to the authority of Egyptian president Mubarak. Check out pictures from her demonstration and more Egyptian women who are working for change here.
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A woman in Iraq kills six in a suicide bombing.
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A woman is raped in the mausoleum containing Pakistan’s founder in Karachi.
- Yifat Susskind from counterpunch writes a great article about Iraqi women’s resistance.
- Farzaneh Milani writes about the dominant figure of a “captive Muslim woman” in Western discourses.
- On Laleh Bakhtiar and sura 34 in her translation of the Qu’ran.
- A brief blurb on the new movie Arranged, about a friendship that transcends faiths.
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The Dallas News examines the conversion of Latinas to Islam.
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MADRE looks at what the war on Iraq has really done for women. Hint: nothing good. Also, a great article on Iraqi women’s resistance.
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Nathalie Nahas for altmuslim looks at the problems that women who wear hejab face in the workplace.
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A deeper look at the invention of a Bluetooth device that allows women who wear niqabs or burqas to broadcast their image.