This was written by Vanessa, and originally published at Feministing. When you thought Western culture couldn’t be more patronizing towards women from Muslim nations, their victimization and “powerlessness” might as well come with some infantalization to top it off: Saudi Arabian women have fewer rights than infants in the West, a report released today claims. […]

We at Muslimah Media Watch seem to get asked a lot, “Well, what would make you happy?” Personally, being a young idealist, part-time cynic, and a lady who is just plain uppity, complaining is what really makes me happy. And when it comes to the portrayals of Muslim women in worldwide media, there is no […]

This was written by Maytha, originally published at KABOBfest. Why does every Western representation, photo-essay, primetime special feature on Muslims in America exclusively focus on the muhajabat when portraying the American Muslim woman experience? Time magazine’s online photo-essay “Muslim in America” features 16 pics of “ordinary” Muslim activity in New York. Ironically, I have a […]

Natalia Antonova for ArabComment explains why Sufiya Yousuf’s life decisions are none of our business. Women in Kyrgyzstan who have contracted HIV get little support. Newsweek looks at the lack of safety for women in Iraq. The Jamia Millia Islamia in India opens a senior secondary school exclusively for girls in order to promote education […]

Although still a male-dominated realm, women have been an important part of the hip hop world both as artists and consumers. Anaya McMurray, in her journal article* Hotep and Hip-Hop: Can Black Muslim Women Be Down with Hip-Hop? explores the relation of Black Muslim women to hip hop music and asks the question, “Can Black […]

There’s a trend in the Americas. Latina* women are getting tired of Catholicism. They’re sick of being called “mamacita” in the streets. They don’t want to deal anymore with the chauvinistic pigs otherwise known as Latino men. So they’re throwing away their tank tops and their statues of the Virgin Mary and pulling on the […]

Written by Andrea Useem; this was originally published at Religion Writer. I’ve just finished watching FrontRunner, the new documentary from New View Films about Massouda Jalal, the only female candidate in Afghanistan’s 2004 elections. It’s hard, of course, to think about a woman running for president without immediately making comparisons to the current presidential race […]

Attention, Muslim fashion junkies in the Netherlands: you now have a magazine that caters to you! MSLM magazine is a project by the Media and Moving Art (MAMA) initiative. It aims to showcase the fashions of “A group of young fashion-minded women, mostly 2nd generation, Muslim, clearly stands out on the dutch society.” [sic] Not […]

Zinaid Meeran interviews Rayda Jacobs, author and actress in Confessions of a Gambler. Concordia University holds a symposium on Muslim women and sports. Reem Rahman responds to Othman O’Malley’s article about hejab. Singapore bans A Jihad For Love at its film festival. Modi al-Zahrani wishes that women could work at lingerie shops in Saudi Arabia […]

Social experiments can be so much fun. And apparently journalists seem to agree. A few months ago we reported on one such experiment by Danielle Crittenden. She donned the abaya and niqab to live a day in the life of a niqabi Muslim woman. Well, we’ve come across another similar experiment, this time in Sudbury, […]