A few weeks ago, Slate highlighted Iran as a topic for cartoonists. I didn’t look at all 290 cartoons (I got to 203, though!), which lampooned several years of Iran’s place in the headlines. The general consensus among cartoonists is that there are four topics which make up Iran: Ahmedinejad, nuclear issues, angry-looking mullahs, and […]

Muslimah Media Watch thanks Safiya for the tip. Asia Alfasi is a talented manga artist in the U.K. The BBC covered a talent competition she’d won (barikallah!), but managed to irritate me through mislabeling Ms. Alfasi’s drawings and misuse of the word “Arabian.” Ms. Alfasi won a competition given by the International Manga and Anime […]

MMW thanks Carmen for the tip! This is a t-shirt from ThreadPit.com’s online clothing store: The caption for the shirt reads: “The desert has many hot things. Unfortunately, in Southwestern Asia it’s mostly limited to roads, recently discharged firearms, and bombed out pre-fab metal buildings.” I hate racism/sexism that poses as irony. File this under […]

Valentine’s Day isn’t a day where women can just forget about all the problems we face as a gender every day of the year. This parody of Valentine cards has a decent aim: to remind us that just because we may receive a card or some flowers one day out of the year,–or two, if […]