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What’s in a Name?


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 10 Oct 2007 / 0 Comments
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As you may have noticed, we’ve changed the name and site of the blog. I just added an ‘h’. That lack of an ‘h’ was really killing me. Sorry for the confusion for our loyal readers! I know that “muslima” and “muslimah” are the same things, but I just like it better with an ‘h’! […]

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Reuters Gives Afghan Women a Makeover


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 09 Oct 2007 / 0 Comments
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Jon Hemming for Reuters reports that a city in Afghanistan has its own answer to America’s Next Top Model. The news agency boasts that the television show “is breaking boundaries and revealing the beauty under the burqa.” (Thanks to NayLah for the tip!) But before going on to totally ignore which kind of boundaries are […]

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Al-Ahram on the Haram


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 08 Oct 2007 / 0 Comments
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Gender segregation is NOT a long-term solution to harassment, stares, or rape. It’s a tidy short-term solution, but it will not solve the reasons that men harass women; in fact, segregation may make harassment worse. Men of any race, religion, or nationality will harass a woman because they view women as acceptable targets—if men are […]

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Dropping the Bomb


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 27 Sep 2007 / 0 Comments
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The Executive Officer, on his/her blog Executive Outcomes, has drawn a link between Muslim women and suicide bombings! Hey, I’ll bet no one’s ever though of that before! Oh, wait. Forbes did. Muslim women don’t have enough negative stereotypes associated with us…thank you for adding one more! “Hey, everyone. Guess what? Not only are Muslim […]

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How to Bully a Muslim Woman


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 17 Sep 2007 / 0 Comments
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Recently, while perusing the internet I came across a video made by DawahWorks, a production group who appear to make videos about Muslims and Islam in an attempt to conduct dawah. The host of the videos, SaadImam, speaks to various people. I actually came across the video while looking for another video made by them […]

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Slate Takes a Holiday…and Makes it Exotic


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 14 Sep 2007 / 0 Comments
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Slate.com put up pictures yesterday for Ramadan, with pictures from as early as 1956 to as recent as 2006, from all over the Middle East and some parts of Europe. What do all these pictures have in common…other than an “othering” effect? A near total absence of women. There is only one picture that has […]

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The Messengers


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 05 Sep 2007 / 0 Comments
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Have you heard of Baba Ali and Hijabman? They’re not a Muslim comic book duo. If you’re an active Muslim youth, it wouldn’t surprise me if you had heard of them. For my non-Muslim readers, Baba Ali has become a YouTube phenomenon with his series The Reminder, a series of webcasts that deal with topics […]

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