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Posted by samya on 18 Dec 2015 / 0 Comments
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  Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley writes for the Time about how violence against Muslim Women is racist and misogynist. On December 10, Wheaton College associate professor of political science Larycia Hawkins announced on Facebook that she would wear a hijab. On Tuesday, the professor was placed on administrative leave by the Christian liberal arts school. Amid Rising […]

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France’s Jessica Houara


Posted by shireen on 28 Jul 2015 / 2 Comments
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This article, co-authored by Laurent Dubois (@soccerpolitics) and MMW’s Shireen Ahmed, previously appeared in Sports Illustrated. A recent special issue of the French Surface Football Magazine includes this portrait of national team player Jessica Houara-d’Hommeaux. The photograph is an invitation, even an incitement. In contemporary France, the discussion about and policing of what Muslim women do and don’t wear is a […]

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Hijab Removal, Iranian Women, and Freedom of Dress


Posted by syahirah on 26 May 2014 / 4 Comments
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This post was originally published at Aquila Style. The liberal feminist organisation Femen and its members’ naked breasts have had their media run. Now a more modest sort of uncovering is happening, this time in Iranian social media. Last month, London-based Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad started a movement on Facebook and Twitter, translated as “My Stealth Freedom”, to highlight the […]

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The CIA and Rape: Media Representations of the Victims


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 10 Feb 2009 / 0 Comments
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Various news organizations have reported that a CIA officer stationed in Algeria, identified by CBS News as Andrew Warren, has been accused of drugging and raping two Algerian women. The women, according to CBS, came forward separately and “reported the incidents months after they occurred.”  This from ABC News: The CIA’s station chief at its […]

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