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Friday Links — September 4, 2009


Posted by fatemeh on 04 Sep 2009 / 0 Comment
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  • CNN shows us Nujood’s life after her divorce.
  • The Feminist School keeps us updated on imprisonments, releases, and an interview with Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani.
  • Al Jazeera highlights a Lebanese citizenship case that could affect whether Lebanese women pass their citizenship to their children.
  • Two police officers in Karachi have been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of three-year-old Sana. May Allah give her peace.
  • Islam Online is holding a blogging competition for Ramadan. Ladies, start your keyboards!
  • The National profiles editor and writer Rabina Khan.
  • Cycads writes about purdah and sexual segregation.
  • Natalia Antonova discusses honor violence and hymens.
  • Asharq Alawsat discusses the recent Hamas decision to require schoolgirls to wear headscarves.
  • Muslim Malaysian women in Thailand are taking charge in their communities.
  • Uzbekistan has placed a ban on headscarves. More here.
  • On the Mali marriage law. More here.
  • A college principal in Kashmir has been threatened with violence if he does not enforce headscarves on female students.
  • Beirut holds a conference on women and the digital future.
  • RH Reality Check discusses the “war on terror” and Muslim women.
  • How the French Burqa Ban has messed up French politics.
  • Christian and Muslim women in Liberia finish their peace seminar.
  • Turkey has began another scholastic year with a headscarf ban.
  • World Peace writes about technology and gender segregation.
  • Indigo Jo Blogs outlines some British feminist hawk concerns about Muslim women.
  • The Jakarta Post highlights how women’s bodies are used as battlefields.
  • A New Zealand woman was denied access to court because of her headscarf. More here.
  • Muslim women in Orissa, India, are using traditional embroidery  as economic empowerment.
  • Jezebel reviews documentary Time for School 3, which follows an female Afghan student through her struggle for education.
  • Nayereh Tohidi explains the roles of women in the Iranian presidential elections.
  • Reuters wonders when France will receive a fatwa against forced marriages.
  • An Egyptian film that highlights women’s issues gets both criticism and applause.
  • In Oklahoma, white female converts are part of a huge growth in the Muslim population.
  • Mukhtar Mai appears on The Today Show.
  • AltMuslim weighs in on the Rifqa Bary case. More from the Orlando Sentinel.
  • Lubna Hussein speaks about her impending trial.
  • In Egypt, women who don’t wear a headscarf are becoming a marginalized minority.
  • Women and children are being targeted in Sudan’s southern states.
  • Iran has approved its first female cabinet minister since the 1979 Revolution. Politics Daily believes that this is a step backward.
  • Ms. Magazine reports on Yanar Mohammed’s “Underground Railroad” for Iraqi women.

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