- Domestic workers in Lebanon may have a new hope about fair treatment.
- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy travels through her native Pakistan to look at the toll that the war has taken on children.
- Kurdish women are looking to get in on the football frenzy.
- Obtuse lawmakers in Yemen are trying to stall the ban on child marriage.
- Karzai backpedals on the Shi’a law. Finally. Rabble alleges that this law is the result of U.S. foreign policy, lines magazine discusses Afghanistan’s invasion as liberation, and Embassy worries that this is just the beginning, while Women’s eNews sees defiance in the demonstrations after the law’s announcement.
- Islam in Europe discusses the role that imams play in Dutch Muslim’s views of sexuality.
- Mona El Tahawy discusses the niqab and the savior syndrome.
- Arab News reports that temporary marriages between Saudis and Indonesians are on the rise.
- Arab women in sciences should be encouraged, says Muhammad Ayish.
- An interview with Saira Wasim, a rising Pakistani artist. AltMuslim also interviewed her awhile ago.
- There are allegation that Rubina Ali, the girl who played a young Latika in Slumdog Millionaire, was almost sold by her father. He denies this.
- Hissa al Dhaheri has words of serious wisdom on identity.
- Roxana Saberi has been jailed. President Ahmedinejad writes to her prosecuters in an appeal for a fair hearing. Meanwhile, her parents worry. Shirin Ebadi plans to defend Saberi, and KABOBfest looks at the situation from the Iranian government’s angle.
- A Somali mother worries about her son, who has been detained in connection with the piracy against a U.S. ship from last week.
- The Guardian looks at women in Basra, while Amnesty International focuses on Iraqi women as a whole.
- Women in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, are leading the way in tourism as female tour guides.
- Legendary Pakistani singer Iqbal Bano has passed away. May Allah grant her peace.
- Jordan’s mufti has condemned a private school’s move in the country to fire a teacher because she wears a headscarf.
- Shazia Rafi writes about family laws in Afghanistan.
- Policewomen in Gaza kick ass and take names.
- An educational project helps illiterate women in Baghdad go to school. More from Middle East Online.
- Time looks at Muslims, many of them women, who are fighting for human rights in West Asia.
- An Irish program aids reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians. Via GetReligion.
- Surprise! Magazines stereotype Muslim women.
- Fundamentalist Saudi groups threaten a literary group that hosted a female poet as a speaker.
- A church in Kenya is seeking to convert President Obama’s Muslim grandmother.
- MuslimMatters weighs in on the Canadian Niqab Case.
- Egyptian fatwa condones “misyar” marriage, causes stir. Via TalkIslam.
- The Arizona Daily Star profiles high school tennis star Sadiya Buta.
- A short review of women’s rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- More on the fact that women in Baidoa, Somalia, have been ordered to cover up or risk jail.
- The BBC covers Turkey’s first female-designed mosque.
- Common Ground News Service highlights Algerian feminism’s continuing strength.
- Mona El Tahawy writes about continuing violence against women in Afghanistan.
- Roohi Tabassum faces deportation from Canada, despite her grants for asylum. Via Raquel Evita Sarawati.
- A rape scene on Saudi television causes a serious commotion.
- President Obama has appointed Dalia Mogahed as part of a government religious advisor council. More from the LA Times.
- Maghrebia interviews Tunisian women’s rights activist Bochra Bel Haj Hmida.
- South Africa may get a Muslim Marriage Bill that will help regulate women’s rights within marriage.
- Arab News profiles Faryal King, one of Saudi Arabia’s few female lawyers.
- CBS profiles Rabia Zargarpur’s designs.
- Female police officers in Kuwait face social oppositionby conservative hardliners.
- A Muslim woman makes her own movie in response to Fitna.
- Voice of America profiles Afghan women’s rights activist Sakina Yacoobi.
