Things to Know About! The Supreme Court of India recently struck down “triple talaq,” which  allowed a Muslim man to dissolve his marriage by uttering the term divorce three times, all at once. While some see this as a positive move in women’s rights,  some writers question if this is enough address some of  the […]

Six years ago, almost to the day, I became Editor-in-Chief of Muslimah Media Watch. I was nervous and excited to follow in the footsteps of MMW’s founder, Fatemeh Fakhraie. Being able to lead such an incredible team of women has been a huge privilege. I am so proud of the work that MMW does in […]

Trigger warning: gender-based violence, spiritual abuse, victim-blaming, misogyny On September 23, 2017, Omer M. Mozaffar published a Facebook post in which he wrote about “predatory behavior” on the part of Nouman Ali Khan, a Texas-based Muslim scholar and founder of Bayyinah Institute with millions of online followers. Since then, much of the Muslim internet has […]

Things to Know About! South Korea’s biggest cosmetic company aims to reach Muslim women and other women in South Asian with “darker” complexions, after losing some of its Chinese market over political tensions. However, it is yet to be defined what the company understands as “darker” complexions (not to mention, assumptions over Muslim women being […]

Recently, The Independent reported on a study finding that discrimination in the job market adversely affects employment prospects for young Muslims. The Independent reports on the study as if the information is new, but three years ago Roger Dobson wrote an article on a study with similar findings for the same periodical. The gist of […]

Lately reading the news from around the world has felt like swimming in a wave pool. Every time you get over a wave and find your footing, another one comes and knocks you off your feet. It’s hard to rejoice in anything positive.  Having fun seems like a betrayal. Attempting to create art feels like […]

Trigger and Content Warning: Colonial Violence, Racism, Anti-Blackness, Anti-Indigeneity, Gender-based Violence, Militarized Violence, Islamophobia, anti-Refugee Rhetoric. In the past year Rohingya Muslims have been constantly featured by Western media outlets, particularly as their persecution in Burma/Myanmar has been deemed to be “ethnic cleansing” by the United Nations. The Rohingya community, which is primarily Muslim but also […]

Things to Know About! Mu Delta Alpha: Muslimahs for Change Sorority- Via Launch Good.   Tunisian women can now legally marry non-Muslim men, if they wish to do so! The ban was in effect since 1973. Malaysian Muslim women are facing a lot of abuse and bullying on social media, particularly when they do not […]

Last month on Aug 9, a gay man and a transgender woman from Singapore were arrested in a mall in Abu Dhabi just a day after they arrived for a photoshoot and networking. For the charges of ‘wearing women’s clothes’ and ‘outrageous acts in public’, according to court documents, the two were sentenced to a […]

On September 7, Mexico and Guatemala experienced the most destructive earthquake since the eighteenth century. Whereas Mexico City remained almost intact, the areas closer to the epicentre, including Oaxaca, Chiapas and Guatemala, suffered incredible damages. Media coverage of the issue has been quite poor, to be honest, focusing primarily on Juchitán, an important economic Zapotec […]