• Home
  • About MMW
  • MMW Contributors
  • Resources
  •  

Friday Links


Posted by samya on 08 Apr 2016 / 0 Comment
Tweet



Meet Lulwah Al Hmoud, A Saudi artist, whose work reframes traditional Islamic geometry and calligraphy using techniques such as silkscreen printing, painting and gilding.

Dalia Mogahed is an American Muslim scholar. The Tempest had the opportunity to speak to Mogahed about her work, projects, upbringing, and more.

At a time when fear of international terror is coinciding with election-year condemnations of entire cultures, what could address the divisive issues more directly than Boushra Almutawakel’s portrait of a confident young woman whose hijab is an American flag?

Muslim girls are academically outperforming their male counterparts for the first time, researchers have found.

Fatima Zahra Mansouri writes about how Morocco recognized long ago that women represent half the potential of the country, and that protecting and expanding their rights is essential to the successful and peaceful evolution of our country.

Pierre Bergé made some inflammatory comments on the subject this week, which nevertheless raised some important questions about the commercialization and appropriation of Muslim fashion.

Wales’ first gym specifically for Muslim women is set to open in Cardiff. And according to the businessman behind the scheme, the gym came about because women in his community said they didn’t feel comfortable exercising at mainstream gyms, including existing women-only ones.

Mehbooba Mufti, who succeeded her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, became the 16th woman CM in post-Independent India after taking the oath of office on Monday.

Related Posts



“What Will They Say About Me?”: Nike Middle East’s New Ad
March 7, 2017
When Arab Women Artists “Revisit The Harem”
April 14, 2015

Not All Designations Are Equal: Representing Women in the Arab Revolutions and Beyond
January 3, 2013


  • Find us on Facebook

  • Recent Posts

    • Film Review: 3 Seconds Divorce
    • The Intersections of Latinx Identities, Islam and Gendered Narratives
    • Book Review: The Tower by Shereen Malherbe
    • Taking Back the Narrative, One Panel at a Time
    • No Country For Travelling Women
  • Recent Comments

    • Mynaijabaze on Remembering Siti on Ramadan
    • Faye on Ramadan ~ Maybe Next Year
    • Shawn Smith on Ramadan ~ Maybe Next Year
    • aziza shaikh on Remembering the Quebec City Mosque Shooting, One Year Later
    • Mohammad shakoor on Saints and Misfits and Everything in Between
  • Authors

  • Archives

  • Categories