Salam waleykum, readers! I’m traveling, and so I didn’t have time to put together Friday Links this week. In their place, I’m sharing this great critique with you. It was written by Cycads and originally appeared on her blog. Next week, our regularly scheduled programming will resume, so stay tuned. Any self-respecting news editor would […]

Salam waleykum, readers! I’m in Boston this weekend, attending the Women, Action & The Media Conference (WAM!). This year’s theme is Inside/Outside. I feel this theme is applicable to the position Muslim women often find themselves in: sometimes we are insiders in our faith, sometimes we are outsiders. Muslim women are often called on as […]

Dear Readers Wishing you all the peace and blessings of the Universe. This is my very first post on Muslimah Media Watch. I am a proudly South African Muslimah, named Safiyyah. I am currently pursuing my undergraduate degree in Islamic Studies and Arabic at final year,  not to mention chasing a career in developmental journalism. […]

After Sobia’s post last week about The Other Half of the Sky, a Tunisian film that tells a story about a woman’s experience with inheritance laws, I was interested to see this article, which talked about other cracks that women may fall through in another shariah-inspired legal system.  In this case, Mariam Mokhtar is writing […]

Covering Afghan women must be an especially hard task for many Western journalists. I say this because every piece I have read about Afghan women makes them seem like they are some of the most oppressed women in the world, with little to no hope for happiness, sans intervention by a Western savior or “Western” […]

My eyebrows raised when I read this article on IslamOnline. The article, entitled Study: Men Objectify Scantily Clad Women, used a current study conducted by well-known Princeton psychologist, Dr. Susan Fiske, to promote modest clothing. I am familiar with Dr. Fiske’s work, and I couldn’t help but question whether IslamOnline was misrepresenting the study in […]

I saw the movie Taken with my friend and her husband the other day and walked out of the theater feeling scared. It’s not a horror movie; the plot focuses on the sex trafficking of young women. The buyers are rich Arab men, of course. I wanted to be angry with the filmmakers for portraying […]

Ethar writes about how Egyptian universities and banks are teaming up to improve Egyptian women’s business skills. Hurriyet Daily News profiles Yaşar Seyman, a political powerhouse in Turkey. The New York Times examines Sheikh Hasina’s political troubles. Government offices in Dubai are getting ready to implement childcare in every office. YEAH! More here. Muzzammil Hassan […]

For those who don’t know, CityStars mall in Cairo was the biggest mall in the Middle East until it was surpassed by Dubai Mall in November 2008. Nevertheless, it’s still a huge mall, with (according to their website) over 550 stores, 6,000 parking spaces, three hotels, two indoor theme parks, and a 21-screen cinema complex. Over […]

This piece was written by both Sobia and Krista and originally posted at Muslim Lookout.  Viewers in Canada can now watch full episodes of the show here.  This review looks at Episode 18, “Baber Makes an Entrance.” Sobia: It’s been a while since I’ve written about Little Mosque on the Prairie. Unfortunately I haven’t been […]