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Friday Links — August 28, 2009


Posted by fatemeh on 29 Aug 2009 / 0 Comment
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  • Can Faisal al Yafai asks why haven’t Arab women broken the glass ceiling?
  • On the popularity of plastic surgery in Saudi Arabia.
  • Na’ima B. Robert offers her portrait of a Muslim marriage.
  • Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno’s caning has been postponed for Ramadan. AltMuslim examines the situation further.
  • School girls in Gaza are being told to wear more conservative clothing, including headscarves.
  • More protests against a Mali law giving women equal marriage rights.
  • Killing the Buddha searches for the “new Muslim woman.”
  • The U.A.E will have a national football league for women by 2012!
  • Much ado about female ministers in Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s cabinet.
  • Beauty salons come back to Iraq.
  • The Oregonian law against religious headwear in schools prompts one man to learn more about the hijab.
  • An unsafe apartment building cost one woman her husband and children. May Allah give them peace and justice.
  • An interview with a Muslim flight attendant.
  • The Hindu reviews The Hour Past Midnight.
  • ReligionDispatches interviews Daisy Khan.
  • A Bahraini man won the right to have his sex change officially recognized by the courts. Via Improvisations.
  • Shelina Janmohamed compares the marital rights of British Muslim women and Afghan Muslim women. Via Goatmilk.
  • Another Muslim lawmaker in Europe comes out against the burqa–this time, France’s Fadela Amara.
  • Students in a Calcutta college believe that a Hindu group pushed a hijab ban on the school.
  • The Granada Blog writes about the “oppressed” Afghan woman.
  • Jezebel highlights the lives of Bangladeshi acid attack survivors.
  • The judge who ordered a woman to remove her headscarf in a Michigan court room will face a lawsuit for it. More from CNN, IslamOnline, and the Detroit Free Press.
  • On the lack of Malaysian women in politics.
  • Peace Through Business gives Rwandan and Afghan women business educations.
  • Shirin Ebadi will speak at Naropa University in Colorado.
  • Nesrine Malik and Asma Barlas respond to The Guardian’s (ridiculous) question: “Can Western feminism save Muslim women?“
  • The Turkish-Kurdish divide through women’s eyes.
  • A man tries to run over two Muslim women at a gas station. I am beyond words. Via Jezebel.

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