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Officials Claim Tunisian Women are Waging a ‘Sexual Jihad’ in Syria, But What’s the Real Story?


Posted by sana on 26 Sep 2013 / 1 Comment
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This piece was originally published at PolicyMic. By now you have probably already heard of the harem of Tunisian sex-warrior slaves heading to Syria in order to give up their young bodies to the appetites of deprived rebels to fulfill ‘jihad al-Nikkah’ — “Sexual Jihad” — and are coming back to the country with bellies […]

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Culture/Society

Unmasking Unmosqued: Finding a Space for Women


Posted by sana on 13 Mar 2013 / 0 Comments
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As many of our loyal and long-time readers are well aware of, we’ve often covered the issue of women’s space and place in mosques. Whether we were looking at Chinese female imams and all-women mosques or the effect of mosque space on women’s love lives and, well, humanity, we’ve explored the various issues of gender, […]

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Talking to White People (According to “Mike”)


Posted by sana on 04 Feb 2013 / 0 Comments
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A parody of Sex With Egyptian Women (According to “Mike”).  Hat tip to Sara Salem for her more straightforward takedown of the same article. Sometime ago I was twiddling my thumbs, waiting for a cab, in Luxor. As the wind pushed against me, I was reminded that I had missed lunch. I needed to eat […]

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Muslim Women, Not-So-Muslim Men: Interfaith Marriage in the UK


Posted by sana on 14 Jan 2013 / 13 Comments
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Since apparently all of us over the ripe age of 20 walk around with visible and obnoxiously loud ticking analog biological clocks, it’s no surprise that the issue of marriage is constantly smacked into our faces as though it is the sole defining moment and relationship of our lives. Marriage for Muslim women, whatever shade […]

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Not All Designations Are Equal: Representing Women in the Arab Revolutions and Beyond


Posted by sana on 03 Jan 2013 / 0 Comments
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Two years ago, Mohammad Bouazizi’s self-immolation set an inferno across parts of the Middle East and North Africa, changing the course of the region’s assumed history. We know what happened and we know what has been happening since. Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, despite having removed the bodies of dictators, continue to struggle to maintain control […]

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A Broken Record on Muslim Women’s Salvation


Posted by sana on 05 Nov 2012 / 0 Comments
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I woke up one morning last week feeling betrayed. I couldn’t pinpoint the source of this overwhelming nausea of deception, but there it was, swimming in the pools of last night’s dinner mixed in with some proverbial bile. Luckily for my body and eternal salvation, I received a quick diagnosis for those feelings of betrayal […]

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The Pakistani Women You Have Probably Heard About


Posted by sana on 08 Oct 2012 / 0 Comments
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There’s something interesting, in that facepalm sort of way, about the manner in which the South Asian female form is constructed and seen through the North American media gaze. The characterizations of the South Asian female differ from country to country in the subcontinent, from Bangladesh to Pakistan to India to Afghanistan. Despite these differences, […]

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Queendom of Saudi Arabia Actually a Result of Kneejerk Journalistic Illiteracy


Posted by sana on 28 Aug 2012 / 0 Comments
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About two weeks ago, my bulging eyes nearly met my falling jaw when I came across a flood of tweets in my feed about the Saudi Industrial Property Authority, “MODON,” building an all-woman city to boost the country’s economy and productivity all while ensuring that no one gets a hickey from the opposite sex in […]

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Fajr Ruminations on Ramadan in the Middle of Nowhere


Posted by sana on 31 Jul 2012 / 0 Comments
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I’m in a weird place this Ramadan. Not just spiritually but geographically as well. Almost exactly a year ago I finished my MA thesis and moved back home: home being wherever so my parents were living, regardless of roots and attachments. A few months before my less-than-triumphant return to the moist womb, my parents had […]

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Saudi Women’s Right to Kick Balls


Posted by sana on 05 Jul 2012 / 0 Comments
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With the summer Olympics fast approaching (and truly, what place says summer better than London), it was only natural that a bit of controversy would have to preface an event upon which the integrity of your otherwise boring country lies. And who better to offer this controversy than Saudi Arabia? Earlier this year, Human Rights […]

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