Women battalions are fighting on both sides in the Syrian conflict and despite the fact that their numbers are relatively small, they serve an important purpose for both the opposition and the Assad regime. Sudanese police have fired teargas at hundreds of protesting female students at Ahfad university in Omdurman last Monday. On Tuesday, the students continued […]

Early this week, Samantha Lewthwaite was linked to the Kenyan mall massacre, but a post on Twitter by the organization behind the attack, Al Shabaab, which said that no women were involved in the attack. On Thursday, however, Interpol issued an arrest warrant for the “white widow.” According to Interpol, the warrant has been issued in connection with […]

Last week, much of the news items dealing with Muslim women was related to Britain and the debate and issues surrounding the (face) veil. First of all, a judge ruled that a Muslim woman wearing a face veil was allowed to wear her veil in court, but must remove it when testifying, though she would […]

Sudanese woman Amira Osman Hamed faces trial on September 19 for refusing to wear a headscarf. Indian diarist and women’s rights activist Sushmita Banerjee has been killed in Afghanistan. Sushmita Banerjee was married to an Afghan man and recently moved back to Afghanistan, where she was said to be filming the lives of local women. Her book […]

Child marriage is forbidden in Nigeria, but in the predominantly Muslim north, one in four rural girls are married off before they turn fifteen; that child marriage is in fact illegal is something that many people in northern Nigeria do not understand. Sex trade is flourishing in Afghanistan; it is unclear how many women are sold in sexual slavery, but […]

The hijab campaign after the attack of a woman in hijab has divided Sweden; some critics say that the campaign a symbol of oppression. Meanwhile, the pregnant Muslim woman has been attacked again, according to Stockholm police. A French teenager who was assaulted by skinheads earlier this month for wearing the hijab has attempted to commit […]

After a pregnant woman in hijab was assaulted and harassed in Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish women and men took to social media wearing headscarves to show support. Last Tuesday, the Swedish Minister of Justice met with activists demanding action. A Somali woman alleges that she has been abducted, drugged and gang-raped by African Union peacekeepers; a recent […]

Last week was Eid-ul-Fitr, and for that occasion the Saudi Gazette visited a care home for elderly women, where nothing is done for the residents to make this holiday special in any way. Chicago resident Halima Qancaro, originally from Ethiopia, is also spending the Eid on her own, and she shares her remarkable and tragic […]

Every summer thousands of underage Egyptian girls are sold in (temporary) marriage by their families to Arab Gulf men. It is said that some girls have married 60 times before they turn 18. Slowly but surely Iraqi women are becoming increasingly visible and have more presence, especially in the fields of education and business, but sexual (verbal) abuse remains prevalent, […]

Turkish Sufi scholar and lawyer Ömer Tuğrul İnançer has said during an interview that the presence of visibly pregnant women in public is disgraceful. This has sparked an outcry in Turkey, and many (very pregnant) women took to the streets in some of Turkey’s major cities. The lack of refugee camps in Lebanon for Syrian refugees leaves many […]