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• The Daily Beast profiles female entrepreneurs in Afghanistan. Via Jezebel.

• Nesrine Malik writes about the “harassment disease” facing Egypt.

• AFP discusses the dangers for Somali women in refugee camps.

• Kuwait slides down the Global Gender Gap Index for the third year in a row. But Kuwait has the other Gulf countries to keep it company.

• A Sudanese court sentenced two other women to 20 lashes for wearing pants.

• The Vice President of Royal Jet’s Human Resources and Corporate Support Department wins an award at this year’s Women in Leadership Awards, hosted by the Dubai Women’s Business Council.

• Politico examines the lack of women in the Obama strategy on Afghanistan.

• India’s newest campaign against domestic violence asks men to be part of the solution.

• Plans to open branches of a Malaysian “Polygamy Club” in Indonesia have upset women’s groups and religious leaders.

• Jordan’s Minister of Planning and International Cooperation calls for greater female participation in the political decision-making process.

• This week, Iranian authorities arrested the wives and family members of a number of high-profile political detainees.

• A German man accused of stabbing to death a pregnant Muslim woman in a Dresden courtroom went on trial Monday.

• The Star actually talks to someone who wears niqab about the niqab debate.

• Ulfah Arts represents at a prestigious music event in Copenhagen.

• France’s immigration minister proposed a national debate on French “national identity,” saying it should not include face-covering Muslim veils.

• Muslim women in southern Nigeria are reportedly facing job discriminations in the private labor market because of their headscarves.

• Shadi Sadr is the recipient of the 2009 Dutch Human Rights Defenders Tulip Award.

• The National Post gives more page space to the burqa debate.

• Dismissing a divorce plea made by Pakistani singer Adnan Sami’s wife Sabah Galadari, the court said the two years that they stayed together after their 2007 wedding was not long enough to be treated as a valid marriage. Uh…?

• The New Internationalist interviews Leila Alikarami about the One Million Signatures Campaign.

• IslamOnline discusses Pink Hijab Day.

• The Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department in Dubai thinks it is “too easy” for couples to divorce.

• The National asks why the obsession with women’s clothing is as old as time.

• 20-year-old Noor Faleh Almaleki and her roommate were run down by her father because he felt she was “too Westernized.” May Allah give heal them and give them justice. Via GetReligion.

• A report by the Dubai-based Center for Arab Genomic Studies said that Arabs have one of the highest rates of genetic disorders mainly due to marriages between close relatives.

• The National looks at fashion in the Emirates.

• Dalia Mogahed believes she was misled about the nature of the British television program she interviewed for. Via GOATMILK.

• The Dubai Foundation for Women and Children is launching two nationwide studies to track  domestic violence and child abuse.

• Shirin Ebadi says that she will return to Iran despite threats made against her and her family.

• Mona El Tahawy writes about the double standard of justice in Malaysia and its effect Muslims like Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno and the fake hymen fiasco in Egypt.

• The Gulf Times highlights the football fever that’s infected the Qatar Women’s Sports Club.

• Switzerland plans to impose tougher penalties on for forced marriages.

• The Majlis reports that fewer Egyptians are getting married, and divorce rates are up.

• Botswana celebrates its first Pink Hijab Day.

• The American Prospect discusses the ambivalence that Afghan women’s rights groups have over  troop presence.

• Women in Pakistan are disproportionately affected by climate change.

• Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has pardoned a female reporter who was sentenced to flogging for her involvement in a risqué talk show. More here, here, and here.

• The Jakarta Post profiles Fatima Bhutto.

• Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani’s book about Iran’s One Million signatures campaign has been published in English on the 30th anniversary of CEDAW.

• Two women were sexually assaulted on a Dubai street while onlookers simply watched. May Allah give these women justice.

• Kenyan women threaten to strip unless the government finds and jails drug peddlers.

• Muslim women in a district in Aceh Province will be forbidden to wear tight pants or jeans under a regulation that will go into effect in January. More here, here, and here.

• Other reviews on What Fatima Did are in: the Daily Mail, the Guardian, and the TimesOnline.

• Kuwait’s Federal National Council unfairly attacks women’s participation in Kuwaiti politics.

• Belgian authorities have arrested a man in connection with the death of an 18-year-old girl as part of an exorcism.

• Women in the the Emirati city of Al Ain look for better business opportunities.

• Egypt needs more women in power. Duh.

• iKNOW Politics, an online network dedicated to the advancement of women in politics, has launched a new Arabic language version.

• Turkish “bride surfers” lure Moroccan brides via the internet.

• The National interviews Nayla al Khaja.

• Asharq Alawsat looks at women’s education in Saudi Arabia.

• Lebanese women are taking the football field by storm. And so are Palestinian women.

• In Iraq, the first women’s only bank in Najaf opens.

• More on the bra embroglio in Somalia.

• Kuwait’s highest court ruled that women lawmakers are not obliged by law to wear the headscarf. More here.

• A 117-year-old Somalian man weds a 17-year-old girl. Yes, that’s correct. There is a century difference between man and wife.

• Sumbul Ali-Karamali writes about her trip to the WISE conference in Malaysia.

• Shahla Lahiji has a request for all Iranian women.

• A Chicago women’s shelter is one of the rare places that cater to Muslim women fleeing domestic violence.

I don’t know about you, but this week’s links have me left feeling like I’m taking crazy pills…