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Saudi Arabia lifts the ban on women driving, and it is not the feminist achievement we think it is

Posted by Guest Contributor on 28 Jun 2018 / 0 Comments

This post was written by Guest Contributor Aisha Jamal. Aisha is a former features editor of the Saudi Gazette, and graduate of the London School of Economics. Last year, Saudi Arabia announced that it was finally going to allow Saudi women to drive. It was hailed as a watershed moment, the result of Saudi female […]

A Letter to Mona Eltahawy on “Headscarves and Hymens”

Posted by eren on 11 Jun 2015 / 5 Comments

Dear Mona, Some of my fellow Muslimah Media Watch writers put together a roundtable about their thoughts on your book, and as I read it, I decided to explore some of their ideas and thoughts further. This review in the form of a letter stems from the need to address not only the book itself, […]