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Strictly Soulmates: The Trials and Tribulations of British Muslim ‘Singletons’


Posted by Guest Contributor on 11 Mar 2013 / 0 Comments
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This post was written by guest contributor Maria Salman. Marriage: The one word on the tip of the tongue for many young Muslims. The difficulties in searching for the elusive One experienced by the Muslim diaspora is a phenomenon that is well documented. Google the phrase “Muslim marriage crisis,” and a substantial number of hits […]

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Score One for the BBC!


Posted by faith on 29 Apr 2009 / 0 Comments
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A couple of weeks of ago, the BBC featured a story on Kurdish women football teams. Two weeks later, the story is still on the front page of the Middle East section of the BBC News’s website. I kept flirting with the whether or not to cover the story, but since it covers two issues […]

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The Hole Story: Sexual Abuse in a “Strict Muslim” Household


Posted by ethar on 02 Apr 2009 / 0 Comments
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“Sexual Abuse in Islamic Society” is the title of a recently published BBC article.* Right away, I knew it wasn’t going to be a good story (and by “good”, I mean objective, balanced, etc.). “Islamic society,” says the title, not an Islamic society, whatever that is. There is so much wrong with this BBC story […]

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Hard Times in Gaza: the BBC looks at Domestic Violence in Gaza Strip


Posted by faith on 01 Apr 2009 / 0 Comments
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Krista recently did an analysis of a BBC profile of Egyptian women’s participation in mosques and saw the BBC profile as an example of how to cover Muslim women. The BBC has done another profile, this time of Gazan women dealing with domestic violence. I think the BBC has once again demonstrated how to cover […]

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News We Can Use: the BBC’s Look at Gender and Class in Egyptian Mosques


Posted by Krista Riley on 17 Mar 2009 / 0 Comments
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A recent BBC News article has provided an astonishing suggestion that, far from being the monolithic oppressed group that many readers of mainstream Western media have come to expect, Muslim women can come from a wide range of possible experiences and backgrounds.  Who knew? Journalist Christopher Landau begins his article by telling us, The role […]

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From the Outside Looking In: What Does Not Need Reporting


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 27 Jan 2009 / 0 Comments
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* Asian and South Asian will be used interchangeably to refer to those of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, etc., origin. Earlier this month, BBC News ran two stories online on young Asian (read South Asian in North America) women, and both stories exposed our dirty laundry. Or at least that was the way they seemed. The […]

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Single Moroccan Female: Single Mothers in Morocco


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 14 Jan 2009 / 0 Comments
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Single Muslim mothers must be the new “it” topic for the Western media. There has been a lot of coverage of Rachida Dati, the French minister of Moroccan and Algerian heritage, who just recently had a baby while still being single. Now, the BBC has done a piece on single mothers in Morocco. The story […]

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Kariman Hamzah: Giving us a Woman’s Interpretation of the Qur’an


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 31 Dec 2008 / 0 Comments
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In this past week’s Friday links, Fatemeh mentioned that Al-Azhar University had for the first time approved a tafsir (interpretation) of the Qur’an written by a woman, Kariman Hamzah. The BBC story on this event left a lot to be desired. The first thing that was seriously wrong was the headline “Egypt clerics back woman’s […]

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Iran unveils new car for women


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 26 Nov 2008 / 0 Comments
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As soon as I saw the headline, I have to admit I was thinking “huh?” and “what!” I’m not too keen on products geared towards women because usually these products rely heavily on stereotypes. Unfortunately, this new feminine car does just that. It’s suppose to come out in a range of “feminine colors” and “interior […]

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The Struggle to Wear Hijab on Egyptian TV


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 05 Nov 2008 / 0 Comments
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Ghada El-Tawil (pictured below) is an Egyptian anchorwoman who just recently returned to television. Six years ago, she was pulled from television after she began wearing a headscarf. The BBC has published a new story about El-Tawil in which she discusses her legal battle, why she wears hijab, and the struggles for Egyptian hijabis in […]

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