Crossposted on Arab Hyphen Dégradé, a film by Palestinian twin brothers Tarzan and Arab Abou Nasser, forces the viewer into a claustrophobic situation and cranks up the tension to an almost unbearable degree.  The title (which refers to a layered haircut but also evokes the word degradation) is an apt one, as the film uses the enclosed […]

When I first heard about the solidarity movements happening mainly in the US; the interfaith meeting in Utah,‘Walk a Mile in Hijab’ initiative at a Chicago high school, the Christian professor at Wheaton College, I wasn’t sure how I felt about it. I kept thinking it’s a nice gesture but was it necessary?  Weren’t there […]

In a recently aired Saturday Night Live skit, comedian Kenan Thompson played host to a gameshow called Should You Chime in on this? In it, contestants (caricatured as having little intellect and even less of a personal connection to the topics presented) had to refrain from weighing in on recent news items. Even when knowing […]

The Muslimah Media Watch team would like to wish all of our readers a very happy new year! May your 2016 be full of happiness and well-being and bring new goals and new achievements.  

In Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars, a film by Berit Madson, we follow a brave Iranian young woman as she watches the stars, while tensions steadily rise at school, in the mosque and at home. When she was 16, someone tried to pull her headscarf. Rather than withdraw, Rana Abdelhamid turned her anger into a program […]

Since I moved to Canada, I cannot go a spring without someone asking what I will be doing to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. The first time I heard it, I was pretty confused. Now I am just annoyed. You’ll see, Cinco de Mayo is a civic holiday in Mexico. We commemorate a battle won against […]

The word ‘bomb’ has so much weight now that it can bring crowded roomfuls of people down to hushed tones. Just as you cannot yell “fire” in a crowded theatre, you cannot say the word ‘bomb’ on an airplane. Well, if there is anyone who really cannot say that word in that specific location, it […]

For the past few weeks I have become increasingly concerned about many of the women in my life. Canada, these days, has seen a rise in Islamophobic attacks, the majority of which target Muslim women. The majority of the attacks have happened in the province of Ontario, but women across Canada report feeling unsafe, including […]

#IWillProtectYou: 8-year-old Muslim girl’s fear of Donald Trump strikes sympathetic chord in Us service men and women. Adults can take Trump’s rhetoric, but not kids, argues the girl’s mother. Maajid Nawaz, the founding chairman of Quilliam, is yet another man offering an unsolicited opinion on whether we Muslim women should wear the hijab. Since the terrorist attacks […]

Until December 2, 2015, it was difficult to imagine a Muslim-American woman with a machine gun in her hand.  Even though Muslim-American women have often been accused of being guilty by association when it comes to terrorist attacks, few people made direct connections between the women themselves and the crimes. That changed on December 2nd, 2015, […]