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No Headscarf, No Entry: Golshifteh Farahani’s Dilemma


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 21 Oct 2008 / 0 Comments
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MMW‘s Friday Links last week had within it three links about Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani (below), who has appeared in the recent Hollywood film Body of Lies. Apparently, from the news reports, it seems that Farahani has created quite a stir within Iran, or as the LA Times reported some “Middle East-style intrigue”. Middle East-style […]

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Who’s Your Daddy?: Media Images of Yasmin Fostok


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 13 Oct 2008 / 0 Comments
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Muslimah Media Watch thanks Ali Eteraz for the tip! A few weeks ago, several Western outlets featured an exposé on Yasmin Fostok (pictured below), the daughter of infamous cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed. And when I say exposé, I’m not kidding: the majority of outlets that ran the story ran it with accompanying pictures of her […]

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Be Real About Muslim Women


Posted by Guest Contributor on 08 Oct 2008 / 0 Comments
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This was written by Muse and originally appeared at her blog Between Hope & Fear. It’s joyful to be a Muslim woman. So says Mohja Kahf. I agree with the sentiment and the substance of pretty much everything she wrote here, but her style bothers me. This is nothing new – I wrote about her […]

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Talking Back – Mohja Kahf’s Response to “The Sermon”


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 07 Oct 2008 / 0 Comments
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The Washington Post ran an op-ed on Sunday by Mohja Kahf, author of The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf. Entitled “Spare Me the Sermon on Muslim Women” Kahf responds to those who insist that the Muslim woman is oppressed, repressed, monolithic, brainwashed, and worthy of pity. Using brilliant language, which creates colourful pictures in the […]

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Election coverage: Samira Laouni


Posted by Krista Riley on 22 Sep 2008 / 0 Comments
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There is a whole lotta ugly going on out there in the election coverage these days. (I’m thinking Canada, but this is true in the U.S. as well, and, come to think of it, likely anywhere else that might be having an election. But that’s a different story.) Montréal-Bourassa NDP candidate Samira Laouni (pictured below […]

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What NOT to do if you are a male feminist ally.


Posted by fatima on 16 Sep 2008 / 0 Comments
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It can sometimes be interesting (i.e. RIDICULOUS) to hear the advice of a man on how women can achieve equality. Now, of course men can be feminists…I see it all the time. Every movement needs allies and the feminist movement is no exception. However, the first and (by far) most important thing that men can […]

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What About Aafia Siddiqui?


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 11 Sep 2008 / 0 Comments
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Today, let’s briefly re-visit one “frontier” of America’s War of on Terror. About a month or so ago we in the West began to hear about Dr. Aafia Siddiqui (pictured right), an American-educated Pakistani doctor who disappeared from Karachi, Pakistan in 2003, who had all of sudden re-appeared. It is reported that on her way […]

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Iranian women continue to fight the system…


Posted by fatima on 09 Sep 2008 / 0 Comments
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…but somehow the news article that covers it decides to completely change the subject to whether or not Islam condones/accepts polygamy. Yeah…I don’t quite understand the flow either. I was super excited to see the headline (“Iranian women battle the system”). It was like a “Yeah! Finally, Muslim women are being portrayed as really strong […]

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Last week’s worst headline award goes to…


Posted by Krista Riley on 08 Sep 2008 / 0 Comments
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Study blames mums for Afghan child mortality Seriously? The article tells us: High child mortality rates in conservative Afghanistan are linked not just to war but to mothers being uneducated and having little or no say when their children need medical help, a study has found. And according to the headline, this is somehow the […]

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BBC vs the LA Times: Who did it better?


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 03 Sep 2008 / 0 Comments
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a critique of a LA Times blog post about and Egyptian organization that is working to combat sexual harassment in Egypt. The BBC News has now has a piece on its website about Egyptian women and sexual harassment as well. The two articles are different. The LA Times […]

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