- The International Muslim Organization for Women and Family in Jeddah says the organization is receiving a growing number of runaway girls and young women.
- The Nation asks who murdered Benazir Bhutto.
- Uzbek-British Hammasa Kohistani is the U.K.’s first Muslim Miss England.
- FIFA has amended its earlier ban on headscarves–sort of. The Iranian women’s team can play with caps that cover their hair, but not their necks.
- Jezebel highlights violence against women’s anti-violence posters in Turkey.
- Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health has cracked down on health officials who were involved in refusing to hire 44 qualified Saudi women nurses at King Abdullah Hospital.
- The Media Line reports that Afghanistan is the worst country for mothers. The Huffington Post publishes a letter from one Afghan mother.
- Tehran Bureau interviews Shirin Neshat about her movie Women Without Men.
- A girl dies at a Saudi women’s school because the female staff would not allow male emergency technicians to help her. May Allah give her peace. This has set off a debate about female emergency technicians.
- The Saudi Gazette interviews Muna Abusulayman.
- Two female Kurdish rebels were among the dead after a fight with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. May Allah give them peace and justice.
- Andeisha Farid has received the Vital Voices’ Entrepreneurial Achievement Award for her work building the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization.
- The Arab Times profiles Jordanian body builder Farah Malhass.
- The National explains why Belgium’s ban on face veils isn’t really about face veils. The Guardian pipes up, too.
- A Muslim woman in northern Italy has been given a fine under anti-terrorism laws for wearing a face veil in public.
- The Commission for Virtue and Prevention of Vice bans women from jogging in one Saudi Arabian town.
- The U.K. has denied Iranian dissident Bita Ghaedi’s appeal for asylum. She fears she will be murdered upon returning to Iran.
- A Washington, D.C., museum is hosting an exhibit by 13 female Turkish artists.
- Women activists in Jordan criticized a new version of the personal status draft law prepared by the Chief Islamic Justice Department, describing it as a step backward for women in the country.
- Bust looks at France’s proposed face veil ban.
- The Daily Mail says that Yasmin Rahman, Advisor to the Ministry of Women Development, has described the state of women in Pakistan as “dire.”
- The Hindustan Times reports that a Chechen woman wearing a face veil set off suspicions on a plane departing from Pune, India.
- A female council member was killed in the Taliban’s latest bombing of Afghan provincial offices. May Allah give her peace and justice.
- Muammar Ghaddafi’s son thinks women in Libya are 100% equal to men and waste state resources when they get married and stay home. O RLY?
- A San Francisco appeals court has ruled that sheriff’s deputies did not violate a Muslim woman’s rights by forcing her to remove her headscarf in a courthouse holding cell.
- Elham al Qasimi, the first Emirati woman to conquer the North Pole, writes about the experience.
- In Nigeria, a Muslim women’s group backs a Nigerian senator who married an Egyptian minor.
- An all-women team from the American University of Kuwait won the regional leg of the Microsoft Imagine Cup, a student technology competition.
- Egypt has proposed a new anti-trafficking law, but many are unconvinced that this will end a common practice of poor Egyptian families selling their daughters to Gulf tourists for temporary marriages.
- Muslims in Malawi are angered by government plans to ban polygamy.
- Yemen News Agency reports that President Saleh believes women are important to the country’s development, yadda, yadda, yadda.
- Arab News asks whether women should also be tried for blackmailing.
- A non-Muslim reporter wears a headscarf for a day to see how other Russians react to her.
