If you’re familiar with Egyptian movies and television, you know about Abeer Sabri. She’s a television and movie star who announced in 2002 that she would quit acting, start taking religious classes, and start observing hejab. She did not stop acting, and I don’t know about the classes, but she did wear hejab. Until recently. […]

This originally appeared at FreeWriters. You may have seen it, you may have heard about it: the most recent discrimination case being fought by Muslim woman, Bushra Noah. Now the story goes a bit like this, Bushra Noah (19 year old hijabi) goes to Sarah Desrosiers (32 year old hippie) for a job as a […]

  Karrine Steffans broke up with U.S. TV pundit Bill Maher. So what does she do? She trash-talks him in Vibe magazine and the New York Post. Fine. Trash him if you want, Karrine, but don’t bring us into it! She says of Maher, “Bill wants someone he can put down in an argument… I […]

As featured on Racialicious. It’s time to set the record straight, everyone. So here it is: belly dancing is not a significant facet of Middle Eastern culture. It’s a dance, not a lifestyle (not according to most Middle Eastern people, anyway). I’ve had one too many people ask me if I belly dance when they […]

It’s Halloween again here in the West, and I have to say…now that I’m a grown up, Halloween sucks. Especially because of: Slutty costumes (I just had to say it) Slutty “ethnic” costumes: Native American girl, geisha, etc. In particular: Harem girl costumes Belly dancer costumes Genie costumes Cleopatra costumes Arab sheikh costumes   These […]

In case you haven’t heard, it’s Islamo-Facism awareness week: David Horowitz and some other conservatives have decided that they’re going to pretend to take on the cause of the “poor, defenseless Muslim woman.” What garbage! On Monday, Nonie Darwish (pictured here on the cover of her book) spoke at Wellesley College. Darwish is the founder […]

Here’s a brief news story about an Iranian-American Muslim comedian Tissa Hami. In it, Hami describes her comedy as her way of helping combat stereotypes against Muslims. “‘Why aren’t we speaking out for ourselves?’ she said she would ask herself. ‘Why aren’t we doing something? To me this is something I could do. I know […]

Shahadeh Abu Arrar is looking for wife #9. He’s 58, a member of Israel’s Bedouin community, and already has 67 children by several wives (currently, he only has eight wives; he has others in the West Bank and he has divorced some, too). Two months ago, CNN and Secret Dubai Diary did a similar story […]

Arab News reported that a new DVD entitled Gurlz vs. Guyz will be on sale over Eid. Gurlz vs. Guyz is a 12-minute long video that was based on a year-long survey on young Saudi men and their views on dating the opposite sex. The DVD is being released by Izzaty Islamy, which is a […]

Gender segregation is NOT a long-term solution to harassment, stares, or rape. It’s a tidy short-term solution, but it will not solve the reasons that men harass women; in fact, segregation may make harassment worse. Men of any race, religion, or nationality will harass a woman because they view women as acceptable targets—if men are […]