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Lisa Valentine: hijab and expletives


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 24 Dec 2008 / 0 Comments
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American hijabis often have a lot to think about when they step outside their doors. Will we be denied a job because of hijab? Will we be asked to take off our hijabs at work or school? Will our hijabs make us a target for racists and xenophobes? Will we be pulled out of line […]

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Fly Girls: the NYT’s essentialist profile of Emirati flight attendants


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 23 Dec 2008 / 0 Comments
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MMW would like to thank Thabet for the tip! Katherine Zopf’s Sunday article in The New York Times about flight attendants in the Emirates set off quite a storm in the blogosphere. And rightly so: it’s often eye-rollingly essentializing when discussing Arab women and society. But why waste my breath when others said it better? […]

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Not Australia’s Next Top Model: Iktimal Hage-Ali


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 22 Dec 2008 / 0 Comments
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Iktimal Hage-Ali, 24 is a Lebanese-Australian woman whose life reads like an episode of E! True Hollywood Story. Hage-Ali, a former member of the government‘s Muslim Community Reference Group was arrested for conspiring to sell drugs on Nov. 22, 2006, eight days before she was named New South Wales’ Young Australian of the Year award. […]

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Egyptian Spinsters and Old Maids Sitting Happily on the Shelf


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 18 Dec 2008 / 0 Comments
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I am a 21-year-old spinster. Yes, a spinster at 21. In my country, although many many Egyptian women are delaying getting married until they’re in their mid-to-late twenties, society still looks at them with a critical, disapproving gaze. “Men and women were made for one another. You are a sinister spinster.” “Better a man’s shadow […]

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Online Activism: Can it Work?


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 16 Dec 2008 / 0 Comments
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MMW thanks Ali Eteraz for The Huffington Post tip. Last week, Peter Daou at The Huffington Post wrote about the use of the internet’s growing and powerful use as an activist medium. He stated that “[o]ne universal aspect of effective activism is raising awareness and there’s no doubt that the web is an ideal tool […]

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Media Whores: The Egyptian Media’s Defamatory Coverage of the Murders of Heba & Nadine


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 04 Dec 2008 / 0 Comments
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A week ago, Heba Akad, the daughter of famous Moroccan singer, Laila Ghofran, was brutally murdered while sleeping over at the house of one of her girlfriends. Her girlfriend, Nadine Gamal, was also murdered and died from stab wounds and a slashed neck. Heba, who was stabbed half a dozen times, called her husband as […]

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“It’s interesting to have a burqa”


Posted by Krista Riley on 01 Dec 2008 / 0 Comments
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The Western fascination with the burqa has crept up again in a new and mind-boggling way. A few months ago, I wrote about the Charming Burka, an art piece that used Bluetooth technology to take people “behind the burqa” by showing them a photo of the woman underneath. Now? Just in time for the Christmas […]

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Iran unveils new car for women


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 26 Nov 2008 / 0 Comments
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As soon as I saw the headline, I have to admit I was thinking “huh?” and “what!” I’m not too keen on products geared towards women because usually these products rely heavily on stereotypes. Unfortunately, this new feminine car does just that. It’s suppose to come out in a range of “feminine colors” and “interior […]

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Bakht’s Book: Stories of Muslim Experiences in Canada


Posted by Krista Riley on 24 Nov 2008 / 0 Comments
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Natasha Bakht, a law professor at Ottawa University, has recently published a book called Belonging and Banishment: Being Muslim in Canada. I haven’t gotten my hands on the book yet, but from an article published in the Toronto Star this past weekend, it looks promising. Bakht describes her book in the Star article, saying: I […]

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How Tarek Fatah got it wrong on both “honor” killing and domestic violence


Posted by faith on 19 Nov 2008 / 0 Comments
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Recently, there has been much discussion in the media over the use of the term “honor killing”. Is the term racist? Does it implicate Islam for killings that are not religiously sanctioned? Are “honor killings” really domestic violence that is no different from domestic violence that occurs in every society? The National Post published a […]

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