Muslim Hedonist discusses female genital cutting with her daughters. 80% of Muslim women in Maharashtra, India, deliver children at health-care facilities. An article on Muslim women’s activist Raheel Raza. Sheikh Hasina, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has been hospitalized. Al-Ahram looks at Hanan Tork’s beauty shop. The Saudi woman in car crash imbroglio is […]

A woman detonates a bomb in the Karrada district of central Baghdad. The amount of women in the U.A.E. cabinet has doubled. But don’t get all excited: that means there are now four women instead of two in a 29-member cabinet. Yippy skippy. MRZine reviews Lara Deeb’s book An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety […]

We didn’t know about this until it was published; thanks to Andi for giving us the tip! Muslimah Media Watch was profiled in Utne magazine as part of a larger story on feminist websites! The author got our name wrong, but any publicity is good publicity, right? Anyway, go read about us. While you’re at […]

I attended the Vagina Monologues last week. This is the fourth year in a row that I’ve seen it; I’m a big fan of the ideas behind it, of the play itself, and of the activism it entails. This year is also the tenth anniversary of the play; you can read more about it here. […]

  Mohja Kahf discusses how Muslim women are viewed in U.S. media. Alefia Hussain of the Daily Times looks at what Pakistani elections have to offer women. The Dutch government decides not to enact an outright ban on the burqa, but seeks to discourage women from wearing it. Sultan Qaboos University in Oman studies women’s […]

  Jezebel compares the Lebanese movie Caramel to Beauty Shop. MEMRI finds some pretty disturbing stuff on conservative Islamic websites geared toward women and families. An interesting article about why women wear and do not wear hijab. Two Muslim women who agreed to be in a television program are concerned that they were tricked into […]

A Saudi woman’s parents annul her marriage without her permission because they claim she “married beneath her.” Bad form! A Muslim juror who wears niqab has been asked to remove it. Martina Sabra looks at Islamic feminism in Morocco. Qatari archer/racer Nada Zeidan urges more women to get involved in sports. Senay Özdemir argues that […]

Iranian woman designs clothes to make women feel fashionable and modest. Yoginder Sikand looks at reviving the tradition of madrassas for girls. A convenience store owner bans women wearing headscarves from entering because of “security concerns.” Pfff. The Peninsula looks at why governmental quotas won’t help women’s empowerment. The Los Angeles Times looks at women […]

  India’s first all-Muslim woman panchayat (or council) works to improve their village’s access to drinking water. (pictured below) Britain invests in educating Muslim women through management courses and programs that encourage educational and career opportunities, in an attempt to fight isolation and fanaticism in British Muslim communities. Muslim and Jewish women can now get […]

Is anyone else freaking out that it’s 2008 already?! Malaysian Muslim actress Sharifah Amani bucks the idea that Muslim women should have long hair. News Hounds calls a Fox commenter out on her false statement that “there is no sympathy in the Muslim world for Benazir Bhutto.” Sounds like this commenter either can’t read or […]