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Ramadan 2018

Ramadan Kareem from MMW!


Posted by eren on 16 May 2018 / 0 Comments
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Salaams to our readers, and Ramadan Kareem to those celebrating! Since 2012, MMW has published its Ramadan Series. As writers, these posts are dear and near to our hearts because they are our personal stories. We see these posts as a time to reflect on religion, worship,  family, food, mental health, loss, community, and everything […]

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Culture/Society

Write It Up and Burn It Down: The Importance of Practising Self-Care


Posted by Fatin Marini on 29 Nov 2017 / 1 Comment
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After our roundtable on Nouman Ali Khan and spiritual abuse, multiple women have accused  scholar Tariq Ramadan  of rape and sexual abuse. In addition, the Harvey Weinstein scandal has triggered responses by  victims and survivors sharing their accounts of sexual violence almost daily. This included the social media campaign #metoo, in which  some women  voiced […]

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Comics/Cartoons

Supporting the Representation of Muslim Women in Comics


Posted by sarabi on 23 Oct 2017 / 2 Comments
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The past year has been tumultuous for international politics. Citizens of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (a move usually termed “Brexit”);  Donald Trump became the president of the United States, despite his attacks on liberal media and unfiltered islamophobia, racism and sexism; Saudi women gained the right to drive in the […]

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Friday Links

Friday Features


Posted by eren on 06 Oct 2017 / 1 Comment
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Things to Know About! Muslim women from Leicester  have formed the Falcons team, an all-Muslim women Basketball team, since FIBA lifted its ban on hijabs last May. 22-year old Leena Begum, who works in London’s ‘super sewer,’ designed protective clothing for construction site workers who wear hijab. Begum hopes the  ‘reflective hijab’ will help the construction […]

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Politics

Roundtable: Saudi Arabia “Grants” Women the Right to Drive


Posted by eren on 02 Oct 2017 / 1 Comment
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On September 26, the government of Saudi Arabia issued a royal decree announcing that Saudi women will be able to acquire drivers’ licenses and drive legally in the near future. Although the specifics of the policy and legal shift have yet to be released (Saudi women are not yet driving),  the announcement has been well-covered […]

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Roundtable

Roundtable on Spiritual Abuse and Gendered Violence: We Believe You


Posted by eren on 25 Sep 2017 / 0 Comments
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Trigger warning: gender-based violence, spiritual abuse, victim-blaming, misogyny On September 23, 2017, Omer M. Mozaffar published a Facebook post in which he wrote about “predatory behavior” on the part of Nouman Ali Khan, a Texas-based Muslim scholar and founder of Bayyinah Institute with millions of online followers. Since then, much of the Muslim internet has […]

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Politics

Roundtable: Rohingya Muslim Genocide


Posted by eren on 18 Sep 2017 / 0 Comments
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Trigger and Content Warning: Colonial Violence, Racism, Anti-Blackness, Anti-Indigeneity, Gender-based Violence, Militarized Violence, Islamophobia, anti-Refugee Rhetoric. In the past year Rohingya Muslims have been constantly featured by Western media outlets, particularly as their persecution in Burma/Myanmar has been deemed to be “ethnic cleansing” by the United Nations. The Rohingya community, which is primarily Muslim but also […]

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Ramadan 2016

Beyond Fasting: Ramadan Reflections


Posted by Fatin Marini on 14 Jun 2016 / 1 Comment
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My kids are fasting again this year. Officially, 3 of my kids are fasting. Unofficially, all 5 are fasting. Basically, the 5-year-old and 7-year-old are fending for themselves. Truth is, besides iftar I’m not making food. I’m just not. That’s why cereal was created. Besides the “How much longer to go?” question about a 100 […]

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Books/Magazines

Book Review: The Green Bicycle


Posted by Fatin Marini on 27 Apr 2016 / 0 Comments
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Author’s Note: Quotes are taken from an uncorrected proof. The Green Bicycle is the debut novel by Haifa al-Mansour, based on her movie, Wadjda. Both the movie and the book tell the story of free-spirited 11-year-old Wadjda who enters a Quran competition to raise money to buy a green bicycle. Wadjda reminds me a lot […]

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Culture/Society

A Roundtable On Dejabbing: Part II


Posted by tasnim on 22 Dec 2015 / 2 Comments
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This is the second part of our conversation on dejabbing or removing hijab. Read part one here.  Tasnim:  Have any of you considered dejabbing as a way of not being marked as Muslim, and do you feel like where you live makes a difference? Nicole: My reasons for dejabbing are complex, and complicated, and personal – […]

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