Today marks the first anniversary since six men were killed in a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City. Memorials are being held across Canada to remember the men and to resist ongoing expressions of racism and Islamophobia. This is a talk I gave yesterday at a neighbourhood memorial in Montreal. Assalaamu alaikum – peace […]

Six years ago, almost to the day, I became Editor-in-Chief of Muslimah Media Watch. I was nervous and excited to follow in the footsteps of MMW’s founder, Fatemeh Fakhraie. Being able to lead such an incredible team of women has been a huge privilege. I am so proud of the work that MMW does in […]

The first few years I fasted, I used to get a little irritated with friends who lamented the sometimes anti-climactic Canadian Ramadans that paled in comparison to Ramadan “back home” in Pakistan, Egypt, or Indonesia.  I mean, I could understand what they meant, and I knew it wasn’t a comment on my experience.  Fasting as […]

Last week, I emailed the members of a small community that I coordinate in Montreal. The group aims to be a gender-equal, queer affirming, and overall open and welcoming Muslim space, and I have a deep love for the people within it. We’re an eclectic mix of backgrounds, levels of religiosity, and various other identities. […]

All of us at Muslimah Media Watch wish our readers all the best this Ramadan! We’ve been quiet with our posts over the last few months, but we’ll be back for Ramadan with our usual series of personal stories and reflections. Stay tuned, and watch this page for links to the posts in our 2017 […]

Some of our MMW readers might remember Nicole Hunter-Mostafa, who wrote several posts for MMW in 2013.*  The MMW team was deeply saddened recently to learn that Nicole passed away of cancer about a week ago.  She leaves her husband and two young daughters, as well as a wide network of family and friends around […]

Salaams dear MMW readers, We’ve missed you!  After taking a couple months off, the MMW team is excited to be back in action, ready to share more of our analysis of Muslim women and media that you have come to know and love. I also wanted to share some good news – in fact, some […]

Ramadan is a month when many of us try to spend more time reading the Qur’an, or listening to recitations.  I recently spoke to Zahra Khan about her efforts to draw more attention to recitations by women and girls. KR: Can you describe the project? ZK: The FITNA Women Reciters Ramadan Campaign is an online project […]

Salaams and hello, dear MMW readers, Welcome to our new site! I’m excited to announce to you that Muslimah Media Watch has moved as of today.  You can now find us here at http://www.muslimahmediawatch.org/.  Our archives will stay up at our old Patheos site, but after today, all new content (as well as our archives up to this point) […]

Salaams and happy 2015, dear MMW readers! The MMW team will be taking a break for a couple months as we deal with other commitment in our lives and work outside of the blog.  We may have a few posts here and there over the next little while, and Eren will be sharing past posts through […]