This was written by Azmat Khan and originally published at AltMuslimah. After years of critique from local female activists, why did one of the most powerful media platforms for women’s empowerment, Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast, preclude the more meaningful ways to understand the complex lives of women in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Their recent summit […]

The BBC documentary Women, Weddings, War and Me follows 21-year-old British Afghan Nel Hedayat (pictured below) as she returns to Afghanistan 15 years after she and her family left. The accompanying article was my first exposure to Hedayat’s experience there, and it provides a different perspective than the documentary did. The article came across as […]

So I guess I’m the newbie to MMW, and I’m really, really excited about it! I guess you can tell by the title that this is my first post. I’m looking forward to sharing my critique and analysis on Muslim women in the media, and I hope you, as readers, will be interested in whatever […]

Belgium moves towards public ban of niqab and burka after a city bans headscarves and drafts a law against niqabs. More from GetReligion and the Telegraph. A young Yemeni girl escapes her abusers after years of physical and sexual abuse. May Allah keep her and give her justice. Meanwhile, the debate about legal marriage age […]

I’d like to give it up to Hissa Hilal, a Saudi woman who’s caused some controversy for slamming Islamic extremists in an American Idol spinoff called Million’s Poet. Instead of singing, contestants are judged based on how well they recite poems in front of a live audience; a panel of judges, along with thousands of […]

At the end of February, a Muslimah “pray-in” led by Fatima Thompson at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. created a stir in the media.  A small group of women chose to pray in the back of the men’s section of the prayer area, rather than use the separate women’s section.  Mosque leaders proceeded to […]

I don’t know how you spend your Thursday nights, but mine are usually spent in front of the television for NBC’s Thursday night comedy line up. And usually, Community is one of my favorite shows. It’s a comedy about a misfit group of community college students. This weekend, I saw the “Basic Geneaology” episode while […]

Who is She in Lebanon, an online database with profiles of notable contemporary Lebanese women, was launched by IWSAW (the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World) on the 2nd of March. The project, which was created in partnership with KVINFO, aims to provide an easily accessible database of prominent Lebanese woman, documenting their […]

This was written by Thea Lim and originally appeared at Racialicious. We are late on picking up the story of Nazia Quazi, a Canadian woman being held against her will in Saudi Arabia. The Coast recently ran an interview with Quazi, explaining her situation: A Canadian woman being held against her will in Saudi Arabia […]

Salam alaikum, readers! It’s been awhile, but we’re back to our regular Friday links! I’m still a little jet-lagged, so there may be stories missing. As always, if you see a news story about Muslim women that isn’t on our links, feel free to post it in the comments! A judge at Riyadh Summary Court […]