NPR in the U.S. covers fighting for women’s rights in Sudan. On Morocco’s female clerics (the Mourchidat). The New York Times compares-and-contrasts Irshad Manji and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. A Muslim on Louisiana State University’s campus asks non-Muslim women to wear headscarves for one day. Here’s how it went. The New York Times looks at the […]

A Yemen Times editorial that looks beyond the story of Nujood (the eight year old girl who was forcefully married and successfully took her own case to court to obtain a divorce) to the vulnerability of girls in Yemen. The Independent discusses ways that women’s rights can realistically come about in Saudi Arabia, and Women’s […]

Natalia Antonova for ArabComment explains why Sufiya Yousuf’s life decisions are none of our business. Women in Kyrgyzstan who have contracted HIV get little support. Newsweek looks at the lack of safety for women in Iraq. The Jamia Millia Islamia in India opens a senior secondary school exclusively for girls in order to promote education […]

Zinaid Meeran interviews Rayda Jacobs, author and actress in Confessions of a Gambler. Concordia University holds a symposium on Muslim women and sports. Reem Rahman responds to Othman O’Malley’s article about hejab. Singapore bans A Jihad For Love at its film festival. Modi al-Zahrani wishes that women could work at lingerie shops in Saudi Arabia […]

I didn’t know about this until now; I think vacation made me soft. Anyway, Aaminah is hosting a carnival for Muslim women. The rules are simple: “Write on your blog about your perspective as a Muslim woman. Anywhere in the world, any issue that is of importance to you. Poetry, short story, essay, article, standard […]

On fashionable head scarves. The Conservative Party in the U.K. has elected a Muslim woman as a prospective Parliamentary candidate. Muslim women in West Bengal are treated as unequal citizens, says the State Minority Affairs Minister. An unusually insightful (for a college newspaper, anyway) article about hejab and religious patriarchy. The American Islamic Congress (AIC) […]

The New York Times and Women’s eNews look at an often-profiled woman and her women’s shelter, the City of Hope, in Dubai. May Allah bless her for the work she does. Muslim women in India rally to push the government into implementing recommendations for improving Muslim issues made by a committee over a year ago. […]

Women in Iraq face mean streets when they drive. Abu Dhabi holds its first international fashion week, which include fashions from Rabia Z. The man who shot and killed Alia Ansari has been sentenced to jail. Muslim women in India get a new, more equitable marriage law. Mahboba Ahdyar braves the Taliban and conservative cultural […]

Muslim feminist perspectives on International Women’s Day. Muslim women in Hyderabad, India, earn income through group cooperatives and microfinancing. Arab News looks at the difficult position of “married spinsters.” Women scholars and activists in Lucknow, India, draft a female-friendly nikahnama. Headscarf barrier lifted for those seeking Swiss citizenship. The Mansoojat Foundation helps put on a […]

A teenage Egyptian girl is shot in the head outside her home. May Allah give her peace. Wazhma Frogh is one bad-ass Afghan woman: she uses Islam to fight conservative Afghan cultural viewpoints on women’s rights. Barikallah! The body of Guinean former supermodel and activist against female genital cutting, Katoucha Niane, was found in the […]