Sweden’s Cherine Awad, one of the Halal TV hosts, may be Sweden’s first lawyer who wears a headscarf. Denmark has sentenced a mother for the female genital cutting of her daughters. More from the BBC. Via TalkIslam. Some Qatari women are insisting that clauses assuring them a separate home from their in-laws be included in […]

Muslimah Source is a new site that is geared towards Muslim women. When I visited the site, I was hoping for something a little different from the norm. Usually sites catering to Muslim women have sections on relationships, health & beauty, motherhood, how to emulate female companions (sahabah) of the Prophet (saws) and dress (i.e. […]

* Asian and South Asian will be used interchangeably to refer to those of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, etc., origin. Earlier this month, BBC News ran two stories online on young Asian (read South Asian in North America) women, and both stories exposed our dirty laundry. Or at least that was the way they seemed. The […]

This post was written by Cycads, and originally appeared on her blog.   Malaysian actress Wardina The meteoric rise of Malaysian actress Wardina and singer Waheeda in the last few years was by no means an accident. For decades, women who wore the tudung (hijab) had longed for high-profile role models who shared their values […]

I watched Brick Lane last night. Full disclosure: I haven’t read the book. I wanted to, I swear. Just never got around to it. So I can’t offer book-versus-movie criticism, which doesn’t seem like such a big deal considering that everyone always says that “the book is better,” anyway. But I really enjoyed the movie. […]

Muslimah Media Watch thanks Hijabtrendz for the tip! Those of you who speak French should go check out MWM, a new magazine for Muslim women, published in France.  It’s first issue is free and currently online.  It seems like future issues will require a subscription, but their subscription section isn’t up yet. The magazine introduces […]

A proposed retail ban on hejabs causes some serious uproar, agreement, and outright refusal. In response, The Brisbane Times puts forth an “educational” article about hejab, a Muslim woman tries to explain the differences between headcoverings, and anti-discrimination groups advocate against the ban. The Queens Tribune profiles ICNA’s Temporary Housing for Women program. The Deccan […]

Those of you who know me well know I’m not the most modest person in the world. For those of you who don’t know me very well: I’m not the most modest person in the world. So when I tell you I’ve just spent the past couple of days feeling very, very small and tiny, […]

With so much of American foreign policy being focused on various Muslim countries, it is no surprise that there is a “concern” among conservatives about the issues that Muslim women face in different parts of the Muslim world. I have a wish that their concern is sincere, but when I read essays like Zeyno Baran’s […]

CBC radio’s weekly documentary program, Dispatches, recently ran a documentary by Natasha Fatah on Nia Dinata, one of Indonesia’s best known film directors. In the documentary, entitled Cinema, censorship and sex, Fatah speaks with the internationally acclaimed director about her latest film, Chants of Lotus, as well as her experiences with film making in Indonesia. […]