So, dear readers, here we are! Our fancy-pants new website! We hope you like it. There are still kinks being worked out with the old posts we imported and certain pages, but we’re working on them. If you see something, let us know at muslimahmediawatch@gmail.com. Have a look around: we have new features and things […]

Salon details the erosion of Iraqi women’s freedoms under American occupation. Islamic scholars are not down with the female qazis in India that we reported on last week. ABC News interviews Saudi Arabia’s first female CFO. Via Progressive Muslima News. Reuters investigates prostitution in Nigeria. And the BBC reports on Islamic crackdowns on sex workers […]

Knowing that my regular post day, Thursday, was quickly sneaking up on me, I frantically searched the internet for something to cover. I used the keywords “Muslim women”, “media,” “news,” and finally “Pakistani women” (trying to cover South Asia). And the majority of the stories I came across in news were very negative. Most of […]

This was written by Amal and originally published at Improvisations: Arab Woman Progressive Voice. In Lebanese singer Nawal el Zoghbi’s latest video clip, “Albi es’alou” (ask my heart), the director wanted a really sexy man to play the singer’s love interest. Of course, there are the usual ways of sexing men in these video clips: […]

As salaamu ‘alaikum and hello to you all! I’m Ethar and even though my name has been on the list of contributors for over a month now, I’ve been in Yemen for the past six weeks so this is my very first post. I’m very happy to join the MMW team as their Arabic speaking […]

This was written by Eman and originally appeared at Hatshepsut. A while back I went into the Diwan bookstore in Zamalek only to find out that a book that I had spent around two weeks proof reading for publication is finally out (though as expected my name is not mentioned in it). This book is […]

I can’t believe I forgot to put this in the Friday Links, but it’ll work better this way, anyway. Sister Amani is trying to win a scholarship contest by having her scholarship entry get the most views. Here’s her blog post: Assalam Alaikum, As you may know, I am a mother of two, and I’m […]

The Third International Conference on Islamic Feminism will take place in Barcelona, Spain, in October. Anyone going? Anyone want to generously donate enough money to send me? I am thisclose to selling a kidney to be able to go! Via Samaha. Taleban militants have burned down more girls’ schools in northwest Pakistan. Via TalkIslam. Al-Ahram […]

MMW thanks HijabStyle for the links! With the Olympics in full swing, I thought I’d take a quick peek at the way in which media was presenting the participation Muslim women, if they were at all. Initially, while watching the opening ceremony, I heard tidbits of references to the women competitors from Muslim countries such […]

Sexual harassment is a problem that affects women in all societies. Muslim societies are no exception. Where there is patriarchy, there will be sexual harassment. In both Muslim and non-Muslim societies, the “solution” to sexual harassment has always fallen on women. “Don’t dress in revealing clothes, don’t flirt, don’t stay out alone, etc.” Even at […]