- This is what happens when you paint niqabs and the women who wear them as evil.
- Cultural issues keep Arab-American women away from health care.
- A Saudi woman gives a morality officer a taste of his own medicine. More here.
- Miss USA link dump! Freep, AltMuslimah, elan, The Daily Beast, Comment is free, The American Muslim, The National, The Huffington Post, Newsweek.
- The Dallas Post profiles one successful Afghan entrepreneur.
- Sydney opens its first hijab boutique.
- TwoCircles.net profiles Kulsum Sayani’s pioneering work in adult literacy and social work.
- Al Masry Al Youm highlights Egypt’s third Arab-Hispanic women film festival.
- Kuwaiti activists and their supporters called for the appointment of women to the country’s judiciary, from which they are still barred despite winning political rights.
- emel reviews a Hijaab, a play about–what else?–hijab.
- Pakistan’s Daily Times asks, “Who are the real Muslim women?”
- One of the outcomes of Gulf “marriage tourism” in Egypt. May Allah keep this woman and her daughter.
- The National examines Emirati problems around prosecuting rape and punishing the survivors. More here. Similarly, Bikya Masr interviews a woman who could not get police assistance after she was harassed.
- A Lebanese court on Tuesday rejected a widow’s request for permission to pass citizenship on to her children.
- The National looks at the Gulf’s Funny Girls.
- Coalition launches Day of Action against Quebec’s proposed Bill 94.
- emel discusses what impact Hissa Hilal has had on the Gulf.
- Kiana Firouz is a filmmaker who faces legal and physical repercussions if she is deported to Iran.
- Asra Nomani writes about a women’s protest at a mosque in Virginia.
- The Hindustan Times looks at the difficulty that Muslim women in certain areas still face when entering sports.
- The Saudi Gazette examines perceptions of Saudi nurses.
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown rails against the burqa. Surprise.
- Bahraini and Jordanian women have banded together to renovate run-down schools in Jerusalem.
If we missed any news about Muslim women this week, feel free to post links in the comments!
