- Women in Lebanon are campaigning to take domestic violence cases out of religious courts.
- Diana El-Jeiroudi discusses her film Dolls.
- In Bahrain, a nationwide campaign is being launched to secure seats for women in parliament and all five municipal councils in next year’s elections.
- Firedoglake covers Rana Hussein’s book Murder in the name of honor.
- Amsterdam mayor Job Cohen says women who will not remove their burqas in order to get work should not receive welfare.
- IslamOnline reports that female Muslim boxers will be allowed to wear headscarves in the 2012 Olympics. More from the TimesOnline.
- An interesting slideshow on the economic underpinnings of honor killings in Jordan. Also, The Jordan Times examines the economics of honor killings.
- On polygyny and legal loopholes in India.
- Last weekend, Colorado’s Naropa University hosted a symposium called, “Women’s Leadership and Activism in the Muslim World.”
- The Miami Herald covers the Hijabi Monologues.
- Istanbul hosts its first Islamic fashion show. Via HijabStyle.
- A group of elderly women in Gouda, The Netherlands, has chartered a bus to take them to day and health centers.
- IslamOnline highlights Egypt’s first headscarf beauty contest. Via Hijabtrendz.
- The Netherlands is toughening its marriage immigration laws, making it more difficult for foreign brides. Via Islam in Europe.
- The Saudi Gazette profiles Suaad Allami, an Iraqi lawyer who works to aid other Iraqi women.
- Rachida Dati’s brother (a convicted drug dealer, by the way) says she brings shame to his family for having a baby.
- A German publisher has canceled a book about the honor murder of a Muslim woman for fear of protests.
- Ministry of Higher Education has delegated Dr. Fatimah Abdullah Al-Saleem to work as the first woman in the cultural attaché in the Canadian Saudi Embassy.
- Saudi Jeans reports on the ruling from a Jeddah court given to a rape victim. May Allah give her peace and justice.
- Everyone is talking about Sheikh Tantawi’s niqab bias (and we will be too, so stay tuned!): the Telegraph, AFP, The Majlis, The Daily Beast, MuslimMatters, VOA, New Statesman, and more from AFP.
- Nadia Hijab discusses the problems with the phrase, “women and children” in U.N. resolutions.
- A Muslim woman in the U.K. faced harassment and verbal abuse after she stopped a meeting to pray. Via Islam in Europe.
- The ex-wife of the D.C. sniper was his real target. Via Jezebel.
- Now Italy wants to hop on the burqa ban wagon. The Muslim Canadian Congress is calling for Canada to also ban the burqa.
- The attorney for two Muslim teens who were attacked last month aboard a school bus has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to step into the case.
- IslamOnline reports on horrific mass rapes in Guinea.
- In Kuwait, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs has ruled that headscarves are mandatory.
- Radio Tahrir interviews Zeba Iqbal.
- Sabria Jawhar writes about the Saudi denial of violence against women and children.
- AFP reports that Hamas has banned motorcycle riders from carrying women on the back seat.
- A group of women who are risking imprisonment to collect one million signatures on a petition demanding greater women’s rights in Iran were presented with the Anna Politkovskaya award for courage.
- More on the fake hymen in Egypt.
- The woman in Spain who was thrown out of a courtroom for refusing to lift her veil did so in order to testify. Via Euro-Islam.
- A Missouri radio station looks at Islam in the Ozarks, and asks women about the hijab.
- In Turkey, prosecutors have demanded life sentences without the possibility of parole for the murder of a woman allegedly by her father and uncle. May Allah give her peace and justice.
- The Daily Mail sensationalizes a Saudi princess’s problems.
- A historic pledge against female genital cutting takes place in Somalia.
- Pedestrian highlights female officers’ participation in Iran’s Police Festival.
- Islam in Europe reports on child marriages in Norway.
