Who’s Danielle Crittenden? She writes a blog for The Huffington Post and recently, she decided to “take on the veil” as a social experiment for one week of her life in Washington, D.C. She went straight for the gold and decided to wear the starkest, blackest niqab out there, ignoring the fact that the hejab […]

Readers, I’m traveling today, and so I’m just putting up a quick post. But tomorrow, we’ll have a full-length post as per usual! In the meantime, remember to give us some love at the Brass Crescent Awards—voting ends this Friday! This originally appeared on the blog Abu Aardvark. Al-Sharq al-Awsat runs a piece complaining about […]

States in Nigeria adopt a softer side of shari’a, and thousands of young women reap the benefits. A group in Miami focuses on combating domestic violence against South Asian women in Florida. The city workers of Vienna have new uniforms, with an optional headscarf for female Muslim workers. Iran decides to reopen the case of […]

Television commercials and print ads have fascinated me for some time as these messages are not there to entertain or teach, but to manipulate the people into mass consumerism. As someone who is being schooled to analyze all messages critically, I find myself hyper-aware of the messages we receive through advertisements. In order to be […]

Muslimah Media Watch thanks Modern Muslimah for the tip! According to Reuters, scores of Muslim women in London are signing up for self-defense classes because of a rise in Islamophobic-based attacks. I support this idea and personally think that all women should be required to take classes such as these in middle or high schools. […]

I usually avoid MTV because of its basic lack of programming that interests me. This weekend, however, I happened to catch an episode of True Life that chronicles people in different walks of life going through different life experiences. The episode I happened to catch was entitled “I’m Having an Arranged Marriage.” I can’t find […]

Amnesty International has run a new campaign to raise awareness about female genital mutilation. These images of flowers sewn up are visually striking because of the implied violence against a delicate object. The ads are effective because they give the viewer a graphic idea of what exactly is implied by female genital mutilation (though the […]

We made it, alhamdulillah! We’re finalists for the fourth annual Brass Crescent Awards! (jumping up and down excitedly) Muslimah Media Watch would like to thank our readers for helping us get this far, and for all of the support and feedback you’ve offered us! We’d also like to encourage you to vote here! The polls […]

Crowded out of a masjid? Not allowed to enter in the first place because the mosque is full of ignorant men who think women shouldn’t be allowed in a place of worship that Allah (swt) granted them? Well then take it to the streets! Muslim women in India offer prayers outside because they can’t get […]

The Dallas Morning News’ Alessandra L. González writes about Islamic feminism. But she gets some facts wrong, which really worries me because she is director and principal investigator of the Islamic Social Attitudes Survey Project at the Institute for the Studies of Religion at Baylor University. Hmmmmm. For someone who is the director and principle […]