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Review – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s Refusing the Veil


Posted by tasnim on 02 Mar 2015 / 8 Comments
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s Refusing the Veil, part of the Provocations series by Biteback publishing, is a very short, refreshingly honest book about why the author thinks Muslim women should give up wearing the veil, in all its various forms, so that they can be liberated women in the 21st century. The book begins with a list […]

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The Latest on the Headscarf “Situation” in Switzerland


Posted by nicole on 01 Dec 2014 / 7 Comments
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The Swiss federal government gives a lot of leeway to cantons, cities and even schools and professional associations (for those of you who remember the Sura al Shawk case, where the original decision of basketball association, Probasket, was allowed to stand by the courts) to decide their hijab policies on a case-by-case basis. So despite […]

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Muslim Women in Sports Media: Is It Still Progress if No One Cares?


Posted by shireen on 25 Sep 2014 / 1 Comment
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On September 16, 2014, basketball’s international governing body, FIBA, announced it would be allowing headcoverings during competitive play for a trial period. It stopped short, however, of permanently lifting its ban on hijabs, turbans and yarmulkes worn by basketball players. Stories of players being rejected from tournaments and forced to forfeit because of their headcoverings […]

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Social Media

Grey Zones of #letsamahplay


Posted by shireen on 25 Mar 2014 / 0 Comments
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Crossposted from Tumblr. I have been sent @DivineDavis’ recent popular tweet – complete with the hashtag #letsamahplay – many, many times. It involves a girls’ soccer team and hijab used in protest of an unfair rule. My family and friends thought I might have missed it. Perhaps they thought I might be excited by it. […]

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Britain and the Veil: From Jack Straw to Jeremy Browne


Posted by tasnim on 28 Jan 2014 / 2 Comments
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The debate about whether or not “we” should have a debate about banning “veils” has returned – or maybe it would be more accurate to say that the volume has been raised, since this is a debate that seems to have been running in the background for most of the last decade. The amount of […]

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A Hijabi in Healthcare: The Story of Dr. Lailiyya


Posted by afia on 12 Nov 2013 / 0 Comments
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The recent debates on Quebec’s Charter of Values and on hijabis in Singaporean workplaces remind me of a woman that I know. Her name is Dr. Lailiyya. She was born in a small town in Java, the youngest girl of twelve children. When she was little, she suffered from polio. Her poor parents were unable […]

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Culture/Society

Recent Good News Out of Switzerland


Posted by nicole on 04 Dec 2012 / 0 Comments
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Courts in the Swiss canton of Thurgau have overturned on appeal the cantonal school district’s decision to forbid two Albanian girls from wearing the headscarf to school.  The story begins in 2011, when two 14-year-old girls were forbidden from wearing their headscarves to classes.  What ensued was a two-year legal battle that saw the school’s […]

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