Yesterday’s issue of the New York Times featured a look at romance among the youth of Saudi Arabia. It’s not the first time the Times has addressed this topic. The Western media has an intense fascination when it comes to Saudi Arabia and romance, if Valentine’s Day coverage is any clue. Yesterday’s coverage includes separate […]

This was written by Susan, and was originally published at Humble Musing. Apparently being a pop singer in the Arab world is enough to tag you with the adjective “raunchy” (Also here, and again here). Haifa Wehbe is supposed to perform in Bahrain around Labor Day, and the Parliament is considering whether to forbid her […]

This was written by Vanessa, and originally published at Feministing. When you thought Western culture couldn’t be more patronizing towards women from Muslim nations, their victimization and “powerlessness” might as well come with some infantalization to top it off: Saudi Arabian women have fewer rights than infants in the West, a report released today claims. […]

There’s a trend in the Americas. Latina* women are getting tired of Catholicism. They’re sick of being called “mamacita” in the streets. They don’t want to deal anymore with the chauvinistic pigs otherwise known as Latino men. So they’re throwing away their tank tops and their statues of the Virgin Mary and pulling on the […]

Social experiments can be so much fun. And apparently journalists seem to agree. A few months ago we reported on one such experiment by Danielle Crittenden. She donned the abaya and niqab to live a day in the life of a niqabi Muslim woman. Well, we’ve come across another similar experiment, this time in Sudbury, […]

If you’re a devoted Friday Links reader, you might have noticed that the two Adn Kronos International (AKI) stories from last Friday used the exact same stock photo (pictured below) of Muslim women to accompany their stories. “Well,” you think to yourself, “maybe the stories were similar. Like from the same part of the world […]

This is going to be a quick post, because I’m still sick, it’s the first week of school so I have a lot of other things on my mind, and I’m defending my piece of crap thesis in three weeks and am freaking out about it. Because of all this, I’m having a hard time […]

The Associated Press recently released a news piece titled by my local paper “Love story bolsters Islam’s image.” From the title alone, you’d think that Islam has never had a love story. The story implies that the film it covers is the first to portray Islam positively. We here at MMW tend to cover negative […]

A smattering of articles have appeared in newspapers lately, aiming to spread the word about how fashionable Muslim women are. These articles seem to refute the idea that Muslim women are against or unreceptive to fashion: “You can be religious and fashionable! Lots of them are! See?” Is this supposed to be a compliment? Generalizing […]

Last week, Forbes.com featured a briefing from Oxford Analytica entitled, “Why So Many Female Bombers?” The article outlines several reasons that there seem to be so many “female bombers”, according to Forbes and the rest of the news networks: Maternal loss Nationalism Absolution from sins Exploitation I’ll get to these reasons in a minute. A […]