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Tina Brown and Hillary Clinton’s Burqa


Posted by Guest Contributor on 21 Jul 2009 / 0 Comments
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This was written by Allison McCarthy and originally appeared at GlobalComment. Tina Brown’s ploys for self-promotion are numerous, but her latest piece, along with a follow-up interview on CNN, takes the cake. Brown, former editor for noted U.S. magazines such as Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Talk, has always maintained some problematic notions of […]

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Free Shadi Sadr, Uphold Women’s Rights


Posted by fatemeh on 21 Jul 2009 / 0 Comments
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This guest post was written by Rochelle Terman. Shadi Sadr, the prominent Iranian lawyer and women’s rights defender, was violently arrested by plainclothes security officials on her way to Friday Prayers on June 17, 2009. Sadr was the latest causality amidst the ongoing crackdown of Iranian civil society following the disputed Iranian election on June […]

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Dreyfuss and Iran’s “Women Commandos”


Posted by faith on 20 Jul 2009 / 0 Comments
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If you’ve been following coverage of the fallout from the recent Iranian elections, you have been bound to see images of women in the streets as part of protests against the election results. In fact, the Western media has put a feminine face on much of its coverage of what is happening in Iran connecting […]

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Fair and Balanced: the BBC Burqa Debates


Posted by safiyyah on 15 Jul 2009 / 0 Comments
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In the wake of the Sarkozy-Burqa fiasco, last week the BBC radio aired a show on the Women’s Hour program discussing the topic. It is definitely worth a listen, as two strong viewpoints are voiced. The presenter, Jane is joined by Um Abdullah, who wears the burqa and Maryam Namazie, who wants it banned. Emma […]

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The Media’s Love Affair with Rebiya Kadeer and the Uighurs


Posted by yusra on 14 Jul 2009 / 0 Comments
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Uighur Women in the Spotlight The media loves Uighur women. They give them lots of margins, and inches on front pages. They plaster their photos and quote them favorably. In prominent photo spreads, they marvel at their exotic traditional attire. They sympathize with their struggle against the brutal, ruthless Communist China. Looking at the photos […]

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How Do You Soak Yours: Burqa Apparently Soaked in Blood


Posted by safiyaoutlines on 13 Jul 2009 / 0 Comments
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This originally appeared on Safiya’s blog Outlines. A lot of the discourse of Muslim women both here and elsewhere concerns the battle to speak for ourselves. To define our religion, our beliefs on our terms, without the headpatting and correcting of outsiders. Fatemeh’s post at Altmuslimah gives a thorough outline of the usual mistakes made […]

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Setting the Record Straight: A Follow-Up on Niqabs and Voting


Posted by Krista Riley on 07 Jul 2009 / 0 Comments
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Originally posted at Muslim Lookout The Canadian government has (finally) decided to lay to rest its plans to introduce legislation that would force women who wear niqab (fabric that covers their faces) to show their faces when voting. This comes as a relief, not so much because of the actual legislation, but because of the […]

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Sarkozy to the Rescue! France, Burqas, and the Question of “Choice”


Posted by Krista Riley on 29 Jun 2009 / 0 Comments
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As I’m sure many of you have seen already, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said last week that he supports a commission to consider banning the wearing of burqas in public places.  Here are some excerpts of his speech, quoted from this article: “We cannot accept to have in our country women who are prisoners behind […]

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There Will be Blood: Neda Agha Soltan’s Post-Mortem Image in the Media


Posted by fatemeh on 25 Jun 2009 / 0 Comments
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Neda Agha-Soltani was fatally shot during a protest in Iran on Saturday, June 20, 2009. May God give her peace and justice. Several news outlets have reported on her death, and several opinion-makers have heralded her tragic end as a martyrdom for Iran’s opposition movement. In Iran, this may be true: Neda’s death may garner […]

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You Say You Want a Revolution (in a Loose Headscarf)


Posted by Guest Contributor on 19 Jun 2009 / 0 Comments
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This was written by Mimi and originally published at threadbared. Because this is a fashion plus politics blog, I want to post some very brief thoughts about the protests rocking Iran after what some observers are calling a fraudulent election, reinstalling President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against his main opposition, moderate reformer Mir Hossein Mousavi. (For news […]

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