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Facebook Foodies: Libyan Women’s Visibility Online


Posted by Guest Contributor on 03 Nov 2015 / 0 Comments
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This post was written by Guest contributor Seema Shafei (@seemashafei)   As a Libyan living abroad, I have been struck by the growing celebration of Libyan women’s culinary skills by other Libyan women on social media. During rough times in Libya because of political instability, Facebook became an outlet for women all across the country […]

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How Facebook fails Muslim Women


Posted by Guest Contributor on 29 Oct 2015 / 1 Comment
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This article was written by guest contributor Stéphanie Renée Roy (@LGD_Stephy). She blogs at Love God Diversity.  For better or for worse, many of us now spend much of our time interacting online on social media. In fact, in June 2015, Facebook estimated 968 million daily users. Facebook has prided itself on reaching out to […]

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Gendered Expectations in Facebook Cartoons


Posted by syahirah on 16 Oct 2012 / 0 Comments
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I have noticed a trend on Facebook of pages created and maintained by male religious teachers in the Malay-speaking communities of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. CahayaIslam (“Light of Islam”) and Lukisan Dakwah Islam (“Islamic Drawings for Da’wah”) are two pages most intriguing to me for two reasons: because they create and share cartoons that are drawn in the style of manga, which […]

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Culture/Society

Faceless on Facebook


Posted by izzie on 03 Oct 2012 / 0 Comments
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We’ve got yet another new contributor to introduce!  Welcome, Izzie! Recently, I got a Facebook friend request from a two-year-old boy. This wasn’t created by one of those enthusiastic parents who create Facebook profiles for their children as soon as they are born. This was of a Muslim woman who didn’t have a profile of […]

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Semra Çelebi’s Double Trouble with Hijab


Posted by tasnim on 24 Jan 2011 / 0 Comments
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Semra Çelebi’s Facebook page “I took off my hijab” shares her decision to remove her headscarf after 16 years of wearing the hijab. According to Çelebi, the page was created “to gather stories and experiences of all those women around the world who stepped out of their traditional social environment and chose to live their […]

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Using Laila ElBaradei as a Clear Smear


Posted by diana on 14 Sep 2010 / 0 Comments
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Egypt is gearing up for its presidential elections next year. As campaigns are off to a head start, so too is the mudslinging. The latest smear campaign is targeted at opposition leader and potential presidential candidate, Mohamed ElBaradei. However, instead of maligning ElBaradei himself, the smear campaign dishes out its unscrupulous attack on Laila ElBaradei, […]

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68 Percent of Saudi Girls Drop Last Name on Facebook


Posted by fatemeh on 01 Feb 2010 / 0 Comments
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This was written by Iman al Khaddaf and originally appeared in Asharq Alawsat. Are you on Facebook under your real name? This is the question that continues to haunt a large number of Saudi Arabian women, despite the fact that internet social networking sites rely primarily on factual personal information. However, a recent study carried […]

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