• Home
  • About MMW
  • MMW Contributors
  • Resources

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Triple Threats and Double Troubles for Muslim Women


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 26 Nov 2007 / 0 Comments
Tweet



You’ve probably heard about the recent ruling given to a Saudi gang-rape victim: 110 lashes added onto the original sentence of 90 lashes because she protested her sentence to the media. It’s a horrible and vindictive sentence, and the callous treatment this woman has received as a victim is insulting to her, Saudi Arabia, and […]

Read more →

Introducing our Newest Contributor: Melinda


Posted by fatemeh on 26 Nov 2007 / 0 Comments
Tweet



Muslimah Media Watch would like to introduce Melinda, our newest contributor. Melinda is a college student. A convert to Islam, she seeks to reconcile the differences — especially the perceived differences — between “Islam” and “Western culture.” She’s also looking to see the Muslim community grow more progressive, an important factor in bridging this divide. […]

Read more →

Friday Links – November 23, 2007


Posted by fatemeh on 23 Nov 2007 / 0 Comments
Tweet



Senegalese women will be able to become foot soldiers starting next year! Another interview with Fatemeh Keshavarz. I so love her! A poor Muslim woman’s body is laid to rest, exhumed, and reburied—all in one day. Australia gets its first Muslim woman lifeguard (or lifesaver, as the Australians put it). Muslim women in Canada work […]

Read more →

Heavyweights: Jordanian Women Flex Their Political Muscles, and the Media Gets Hysterical


Posted by Guest Contributor on 22 Nov 2007 / 0 Comments
Tweet



This story originally appeared on Improvisations: Arab Woman Progressive Voice. “Al Quds al Arabi reports that 204 women are running in the Jordanian parliamentary elections. The language the paper chooses to deliver the news is … hysterical! In fact, “women’s election hysteria” appears in the title of the article. If you are not scared away […]

Read more →

Bigotry Wrapped in Journalism


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 21 Nov 2007 / 0 Comments
Tweet



Israel Today published a story about an increase in honor killings among Palestinian women. The story itself seemed poorly researched and improperly cited (as in, there were no citations—the story cited “an old Jordanian law” that allowed men who confessed to honor killing to serve light jail time, and yet, they didn’t mention specifically which […]

Read more →

The Maldives’ Misstep


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 20 Nov 2007 / 0 Comments
Tweet



The Maldives’ state-run television stations will no longer employ women who wear hejab in an effort to quell the spread of militant Islam, as a response to a September 29 bombing in the country’s capital by fundamentalists. While their efforts include some good ideas (i.e., ceasing the glorification of a holy war), this one is […]

Read more →

Terra Incognita: Hymen Reconstruction in the U.K.


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 19 Nov 2007 / 0 Comments
Tweet



Recently, the U.K.’s Daily Mail ran a story uncovering the fact that between 2005 and 2006, 24* hymen reconstructions have been performed on “immigrants and British women of ethnic origin” by the National Health Service (NHS), which is funded by taxpayer money. Hm. (Personal thoughts: Do you think that if these 24 women were white […]

Read more →

Friday Links – November 16, 2007


Posted by fatemeh on 16 Nov 2007 / 0 Comments
Tweet



Benazir Bhutto is put under house arrest. Several Muslim businesswomen head to Dubai on a ladies-only tour. A shelter for women in Dubai gives shelter to women victims of domestic abuse, sex trafficking, and/or housemaid abuse. A story about Nafsheen Luhar, a Californian henna artist. Muslim Hedonist discusses the lack of voice that Muslim women […]

Read more →

Total Exposure: News Coverage of Abeer Sabri


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 15 Nov 2007 / 0 Comments
Tweet



If you’re familiar with Egyptian movies and television, you know about Abeer Sabri. She’s a television and movie star who announced in 2002 that she would quit acting, start taking religious classes, and start observing hejab. She did not stop acting, and I don’t know about the classes, but she did wear hejab. Until recently. […]

Read more →

A Hairy Predicament: Muslim Woman Suing Hairdresser for Employment Discrimination


Posted by Guest Contributor on 14 Nov 2007 / 0 Comments
Tweet



This originally appeared at FreeWriters. You may have seen it, you may have heard about it: the most recent discrimination case being fought by Muslim woman, Bushra Noah. Now the story goes a bit like this, Bushra Noah (19 year old hijabi) goes to Sarah Desrosiers (32 year old hippie) for a job as aPost […]

Read more →
« First‹ Previous211212213214215216217218219Next ›Last »
  • Find us on Facebook

  • Recent Posts

    • Film Review: 3 Seconds Divorce
    • The Intersections of Latinx Identities, Islam and Gendered Narratives
    • Book Review: The Tower by Shereen Malherbe
    • Taking Back the Narrative, One Panel at a Time
    • No Country For Travelling Women
  • Recent Comments

    • Mynaijabaze on Remembering Siti on Ramadan
    • Faye on Ramadan ~ Maybe Next Year
    • Shawn Smith on Ramadan ~ Maybe Next Year
    • aziza shaikh on Remembering the Quebec City Mosque Shooting, One Year Later
    • Mohammad shakoor on Saints and Misfits and Everything in Between
  • Authors

    Powered by Authors Widget
  • Archives

  • Categories