This piece, written by Abeer Mishkhas, originally appeared at Arab News.   For the past two weeks, both Saudi and Egyptian papers have been writing about a single traffic accident. In two countries that have unusually high numbers of traffic accidents, so much attention to a single accident deserves a look. The reason for the […]

Iranian woman designs clothes to make women feel fashionable and modest. Yoginder Sikand looks at reviving the tradition of madrassas for girls. A convenience store owner bans women wearing headscarves from entering because of “security concerns.” Pfff. The Peninsula looks at why governmental quotas won’t help women’s empowerment. The Los Angeles Times looks at women […]

I thought since I haven’t written about Little Mosque on the Prairie for awhile, why not now? Last night’s episode dealt with crushes. Layla, Baber’s daughter, has a crush on a boy in her Qur’an class. She confides in Rayyan and Amaar on the condition that they not tell her father. Amaar wants to inform […]

The Egyptian film Heen Maysara (حين ميسرة) was released on Eid last year. Since then, it’s been making headlines in the English-speaking blogosphere. Could this be due to the film’s popularity at the box-office? Perhaps people are intrigued by its look at the slums of Cairo? But no. The coverage is on the negative attention […]

Muslimah Media Watch thanks Latoya for the tip! Jezebel does an interesting review of Rajaa AlSanea’s Girls of Riyadh that focuses on the consumptive angle of the book; i.e., how obsessed with luxury goods upper class Saudi women are. While the review itself wasn’t a revelation (I think that an obsession with luxury goods is […]

  India’s first all-Muslim woman panchayat (or council) works to improve their village’s access to drinking water. (pictured below) Britain invests in educating Muslim women through management courses and programs that encourage educational and career opportunities, in an attempt to fight isolation and fanaticism in British Muslim communities. Muslim and Jewish women can now get […]

From January 3 – 26, the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (IFCC) of Portland, Oregon, will be hosting two exhibits designed to give a face to women in oil-producing countries, many of which are predominantly Muslim. “Janet Essley’s exhibit- Oil/Resist- is a play on words between the media Ms. Essley is using and the message in […]

Since I was first introduced to it, I’ve been a fan of the radio program This American Life. Each episode of the weekly show looks at a “theme” and fills the hour with stories — real and fictional — of different experiences that reflect the theme. Some stories inspire, some bring tears to my eyes, […]

This blog originally appeared at Tariq Nelson. I feel that these types of articles are good because it shows that Muslims are being pro-active in not accepting abuse (we’re talking broken jaws and limbs here in some cases) and helping the abused find help. There is a fine line between “exposing the dirty laundry” and […]

Here’s Rudy Giuliani’s Islamophobic new campaign commercial, which began airing on TV in Florida recently. It’s full of angry brown guys with beards and guns! How novel!: And here’s a hilarious reaction to Rudy Giuliani’s new Islamophobic campaign commercial. What really busts my brain about this is the images of women he uses. He uses […]