The New York Times and Women’s eNews look at an often-profiled woman and her women’s shelter, the City of Hope, in Dubai. May Allah bless her for the work she does. Muslim women in India rally to push the government into implementing recommendations for improving Muslim issues made by a committee over a year ago. […]

Women in Iraq face mean streets when they drive. Abu Dhabi holds its first international fashion week, which include fashions from Rabia Z. The man who shot and killed Alia Ansari has been sentenced to jail. Muslim women in India get a new, more equitable marriage law. Mahboba Ahdyar braves the Taliban and conservative cultural […]

Muslim feminist perspectives on International Women’s Day. Muslim women in Hyderabad, India, earn income through group cooperatives and microfinancing. Arab News looks at the difficult position of “married spinsters.” Women scholars and activists in Lucknow, India, draft a female-friendly nikahnama. Headscarf barrier lifted for those seeking Swiss citizenship. The Mansoojat Foundation helps put on a […]

A teenage Egyptian girl is shot in the head outside her home. May Allah give her peace. Wazhma Frogh is one bad-ass Afghan woman: she uses Islam to fight conservative Afghan cultural viewpoints on women’s rights. Barikallah! The body of Guinean former supermodel and activist against female genital cutting, Katoucha Niane, was found in the […]

Muslim Hedonist discusses female genital cutting with her daughters. 80% of Muslim women in Maharashtra, India, deliver children at health-care facilities. An article on Muslim women’s activist Raheel Raza. Sheikh Hasina, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has been hospitalized. Al-Ahram looks at Hanan Tork’s beauty shop. The Saudi woman in car crash imbroglio is […]

A woman detonates a bomb in the Karrada district of central Baghdad. The amount of women in the U.A.E. cabinet has doubled. But don’t get all excited: that means there are now four women instead of two in a 29-member cabinet. Yippy skippy. MRZine reviews Lara Deeb’s book An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety […]

  Mohja Kahf discusses how Muslim women are viewed in U.S. media. Alefia Hussain of the Daily Times looks at what Pakistani elections have to offer women. The Dutch government decides not to enact an outright ban on the burqa, but seeks to discourage women from wearing it. Sultan Qaboos University in Oman studies women’s […]

  Jezebel compares the Lebanese movie Caramel to Beauty Shop. MEMRI finds some pretty disturbing stuff on conservative Islamic websites geared toward women and families. An interesting article about why women wear and do not wear hijab. Two Muslim women who agreed to be in a television program are concerned that they were tricked into […]

Iran’s leading women’s magazine, Zanan, has been forced to close after 16 years. Damn. Zanan staunchly promoted feminist ideas using oblique language to fly under the censors’ radar, and editor Shahla Sherkat has endured years of harassment by government censorship agencies. Meet Rabiah Hutchinson, named “Australia’s most watched woman” because the Australian government accuses of […]

A Saudi woman’s parents annul her marriage without her permission because they claim she “married beneath her.” Bad form! A Muslim juror who wears niqab has been asked to remove it. Martina Sabra looks at Islamic feminism in Morocco. Qatari archer/racer Nada Zeidan urges more women to get involved in sports. Senay Özdemir argues that […]