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Friday Links | July 8, 2011


Posted by Guest Contributor on 08 Jul 2011 / 0 Comment
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This week’s links was graciously put together for us by Anneke van der Berg.

  • Australian police allowed to ask for removal of burqa.
  • Muslim Stephanie not allowed on bus in France, because of her ‘burqa.’
  • NZ prime minister: veil no excuse for discrimination.
  • Another Pakistani woman killed, officials stay quiet.
  • Female Afghani journalist Farida Nekzad featured on Al-Arabiya.
  • Al Jazeera features a series of pictures on women in Gaza.
  • Thirty-three Kuwaiti women divorce their husbands because they sneaked off to Lebanon, instead of making ‘umrah. 
  • UNHCR helps women in Eastern Libya.
  • Afghan minority women at the sharp end of war.
  • Hunger in the Horn of Africa: the tragic story of Halima Omar.
  • Actress Dewi Perssik undergoes a hymen restoration operation to please her future husband with her virgin-like state.
  • UN Women report: Access to justice in Morocco. 
  • Pakistan: Demanding a strategy to combat violence against women. 
  • EU representative Ashton demands release of Iranian women’s rights activists.
  • Ahmedinejad calls on Iranian colleges not to segregate sexes.
  • Female Sudani journalist jailed for reporting on alleged rape. 
  • Gender anxiety in the Arab Gulf.
  • The Guardian features Fatuma Noor, the Somali journalist that won a major journalism price for reporting on Al-Shabaab.
  • Four American Muslim women on radicalization in the U.S.
  • Outrage as the Obedient Wives Club spreads throughout South East Asia.
  • Muslim Brotherhood holds a ‘sisterhood conference’ in Egypt. 
  • Salma Yaqoob steps down as city councilor in Birmingham, U.K., reflects on career.
  • Do we need women preachers and thinkers? YES.
  • The question of Muslim women’s rights.
  • Great coverage of the Right 2 Wear campaign.
  • Indian government should encourage education for Muslim women.
  • Canadian woman says she wants to stay in Saudi Arabia.
  • Bangkok Post features Thai Muslim artist Ampannee Satoh and her new exhibition: Burqa.

See any news about Muslim women from this week that we missed? Leave us links in the comments!

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