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Book Review: Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age


Posted by seema on 14 Nov 2016 / 0 Comments
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I grew up with hundreds of fond memories when I moved in the third grade to a house of baby-pink bricks in the Deep South of the United States. There was a tree in the yard for my sisters and me to climb during the summer months and to avoid altogether during the spring when […]

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Posted by samya on 11 Nov 2016 / 0 Comments
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Ilhan Omar, a 34-year-old, hijab-wearing Muslim-American woman, has become the United States’ first Somali-American legislator after winning a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives. A group of women in Jordan are defying gender roles for a career on the road. While it’s not easy working in a male-dominated sector, the country’s female taxi drivers […]

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Culture/Society

The Musleh Khan Controversy: Responding to Gendered & Sexual Violence in Muslim Communities


Posted by eren on 08 Nov 2016 / 0 Comments
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A few weeks ago Musleh Khan, a chaplain working for the Toronto Police, was all over the media for his comments on women and obedience on a 2013 webinar for couples. In the webinar titled “The Heart of the Home: the Rights and Responsibilities of a Wife” (the video has been taken down), he asserts […]

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“Muslim Mothering” and Rethinking My Malay Motherhood


Posted by syahirah on 07 Nov 2016 / 0 Comments
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Editor’s note: This is the first of two MMW reviews of the book Muslim Mothering: Global Histories, Theories, and Practices. This article looks at chapters 4, 10, and 11 from Muslim mothering: Global histories, theories, and practices (2016), edited by Margaret Aziza Pappano and Dana M. Olwan. I chose to look at these three chapters […]

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Posted by samya on 04 Nov 2016 / 0 Comments
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Two teenage girls in Morocco face up to three years in jail on homosexuality charges after they were caught kissing. According to Article 489 of the Moroccan Penal Code, any person who ‘commits an unnatural act’ with an individual of the same sex may be sentenced to six months to three years of imprisonment. In […]

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Book Review: Wafa Darwish’s Memoir, Not Done With Life Yet


Posted by Shereen Malherbe on 02 Nov 2016 / 0 Comments
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I recently discovered Not Done With Life Yet on my bookshelf and I was surprised it had hidden itself away from me for the last year. I received it as a gift from my cousin on my last trip to Palestine. She handed it to me at the end of my trip when I had […]

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Remembering Nicole Hunter-Mostafa


Posted by Krista Riley on 01 Nov 2016 / 0 Comments
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Some of our MMW readers might remember Nicole Hunter-Mostafa, who wrote several posts for MMW in 2013.*  The MMW team was deeply saddened recently to learn that Nicole passed away of cancer about a week ago.  She leaves her husband and two young daughters, as well as a wide network of family and friends around […]

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We’re Back! + Some Announcements


Posted by Krista Riley on 01 Nov 2016 / 0 Comments
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Salaams dear MMW readers, We’ve missed you!  After taking a couple months off, the MMW team is excited to be back in action, ready to share more of our analysis of Muslim women and media that you have come to know and love. I also wanted to share some good news – in fact, some […]

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Culture/Society

Representation Revisited: Immigrant Complacence in Indigenous Erasure


Posted by seema on 11 Aug 2016 / 0 Comments
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…However else the fiction functions, it fills you with the sound of crows chirping, alive alive alive. But that’s temporary too. Tell my story, begs the past, as if it was a prayer for an imagined life or a life that’s better than the life you live -For Brothers of the Dragon by Terrance Hayes […]

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Posted by samya on 05 Aug 2016 / 0 Comments
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Yusra Mardini, an 18 years old refugee from Syria nearly died in the Mediterranean after fleeing her country. Today, she is getting ready to compete at the Olympics as part of the refugee team. A doctor who carried out female genital mutilation (FGM) on a 13-year-old girl who later died from her injuries has been […]

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