This article talks about a new movie, Coffee & Allah. It tells the story of a Muslim refugee “who feels isolated in her new country until someone reaches out to her through a spontaneous game of badminton.” Directed by Dr. Shuchi Kothari and nominated for the best short film at the Venice Film Festival, the […]

What do you think about this? This is a picture from Nader Sadek’s “‘The Faceless’: six mixed-media drawings involving a [burqa]-clad woman interacting with various aspects of black and death metal culture—skulls, tentacles, devils, decaying castles. A soundtrack, limited when I was there to a tinny set of headphones, runs further with the metaphor: metal […]

Recently, while perusing the internet I came across a video made by DawahWorks, a production group who appear to make videos about Muslims and Islam in an attempt to conduct dawah. The host of the videos, SaadImam, speaks to various people. I actually came across the video while looking for another video made by them […]

Slate.com put up pictures yesterday for Ramadan, with pictures from as early as 1956 to as recent as 2006, from all over the Middle East and some parts of Europe. What do all these pictures have in common…other than an “othering” effect? A near total absence of women. There is only one picture that has […]

Here are some links for 09/13/2007: Barbie or Fulla? I’d prefer neither. The Brunei Times has a great piece on how Fulla can be just as harmful to young girls’ ideas about women as Barbie. Muslim women work out, too! But I’m confused; if they’re all in a women-only studio with floor-length drapes shielding them […]

Muslimah Media Watch wishes all of its Muslim readers and their families a blessed and happy Ramadan!

In case you haven’t heard, Canada announced Thursday that it would allow niqabis* to vote with their faces covered, prompting everything from voter fraud concerns to xenophobic comments from lawmakers. Since this has been such a big deal lately (it’s all over Google’s news search), reporter James Mennie from newspaper The Gazette had a bright […]

Sorry! I’ve been bi-zaaaaaaaaaaay.I’ll start posting regularly again tomorrow. While you’re waiting, check out this great post about media coverage of Ramazan from Religion Writer.com.

This letter appeared originally on Islam’s Green. It is an open letter from Muddassar Arani, a Muslim lawyer who has been singled out by the media.She needs our assistance. I have included abridged comments here, as well as her email address so that you may contact her with your prayers and/or assistance.She writes: “I am […]

This piece, titled “Unveiling Muslim Feminism” by Erin Wiegand, is from In These Times, the web version of a print magazine. I didn’t see this cover of the Economist, but you can trust I would have said something if I had! Anyway, I’m including the article here despite some historical date errors the author makes. […]