Hijab Style profiles Emirati designer Rabia Zargarpur. Who I was pretty sure is of Irani descent, because of her last name. In the clip below, you can hear her and her mother speaking Farsi! YES! I love being right at the “Is s/he Irani?” game! Anyway, the clip below is a profile of the designer […]

Holy crap! It’s June! Muslimah Media Watch would like to congratulate all of our readers who are graduating this month (or graduated next month). Including meeeeeeeeeeee! Congratulations, ladies (and gentlemen)! • Muslim women involved in Al-Qaeda challenge the group’s disassociation with its female members. Via Ali Eteraz. • French court grants a man an annulment […]

* Alya Alvi looks at the state of Kashmiri women. * Malaysia’s The Star features a laudable article on rape having nothing to do with women’s attire. * A Bosnian Serb police officer is sentenced for war crimes, among them rape of Muslim women. * The president of the Association of Muslim Intellectuals in Italy […]

Ha Ana Za! looks at the survival and growth of Islamic feminism. South Africa’s The Times speaks with Fatima Hassam, who is fighting for inheritance rights for multiple wives. The U.S.’s Condoleezza Rice initiates the “One Woman Initiative,” which is a fund that aims to empower Muslim women around the world through funding education and […]

In an effort to curb Malaysian women used in drug trafficking, the Malaysian Foreign Ministry has proposed that all women traveling out of the country alone have a letter from parents or employers. And, unsurprisingly, this pisses off women. Via Feministing. The National Newspaper looks at the evolution of abaya styles. A Tunisian family sues […]

NPR in the U.S. covers fighting for women’s rights in Sudan. On Morocco’s female clerics (the Mourchidat). The New York Times compares-and-contrasts Irshad Manji and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. A Muslim on Louisiana State University’s campus asks non-Muslim women to wear headscarves for one day. Here’s how it went. The New York Times looks at the […]

A Yemen Times editorial that looks beyond the story of Nujood (the eight year old girl who was forcefully married and successfully took her own case to court to obtain a divorce) to the vulnerability of girls in Yemen. The Independent discusses ways that women’s rights can realistically come about in Saudi Arabia, and Women’s […]

Natalia Antonova for ArabComment explains why Sufiya Yousuf’s life decisions are none of our business. Women in Kyrgyzstan who have contracted HIV get little support. Newsweek looks at the lack of safety for women in Iraq. The Jamia Millia Islamia in India opens a senior secondary school exclusively for girls in order to promote education […]

Zinaid Meeran interviews Rayda Jacobs, author and actress in Confessions of a Gambler. Concordia University holds a symposium on Muslim women and sports. Reem Rahman responds to Othman O’Malley’s article about hejab. Singapore bans A Jihad For Love at its film festival. Modi al-Zahrani wishes that women could work at lingerie shops in Saudi Arabia […]

On fashionable head scarves. The Conservative Party in the U.K. has elected a Muslim woman as a prospective Parliamentary candidate. Muslim women in West Bengal are treated as unequal citizens, says the State Minority Affairs Minister. An unusually insightful (for a college newspaper, anyway) article about hejab and religious patriarchy. The American Islamic Congress (AIC) […]