Lebanon has appointed Raya Haffar Hussein as the country’s finance minister. Women’s eNews covers the politics surrounding the burqa and niqab in Canada. Clandestine same-sex marriages are organized in Kuwait. Turkish and Kurdish mothers join together for peace. The Faster Times interviews Ghada Karmi. Philly.com reviews The Glass House. Aden, Yemen, will host a conference […]

Saudi cartoonist Hana Hajjar chats with MMW about work, her inspiration and challenging societal taboos.

Saudi women participate in a black ribbon campaign to lobby against guardianship. Aicha Ech Channa wins the Opus Prize for helping unwed mothers despite Moroccan society’s condemnation. emel magazine highlights Britain’s Sure Start program and profiles a woman who volunteers for it. Oxford starts a scholarship in memory of Neda Agha Soltan. The Arab Women […]

Liaison Dangereuse, a German online lingerie store, recently released a new video advertisement.  With Arabic-sounding music in the background, a woman is shown getting out of the shower (we can see, from the back, that she has no clothes on), putting on her make-up, then walking (wearing nothing but high heels–to each her own, I […]

The Daily Beast profiles female entrepreneurs in Afghanistan. Via Jezebel. Nesrine Malik writes about the “harassment disease” facing Egypt. AFP discusses the dangers for Somali women in refugee camps. Kuwait slides down the Global Gender Gap Index for the third year in a row. But Kuwait has the other Gulf countries to keep it company. […]

Politics Daily discusses the state of women’s rights in Afghanistan. Somalia’s hardline group al Shabaab has publicly whipped women for wearing bras. When does it end?! More from Al Arabiya and Improvisations. Via ProgressiveIslam. Time reports on the recent phenomenon of female suicide bombers in Pakistan. CAIR has asked state and federal officials to get […]

Everybody freaks out when Dalia Mogahed says that “Shari’ah law is misunderstood.” A controversial program finds husbands for Iraqi widows, but many worry that it’s exploitative. More about the Egyptian burqa ban, people’s opinions on it, and the ripples it’s created: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. A Norwegian court […]

Women in Lebanon are campaigning to take domestic violence cases out of religious courts. Diana El-Jeiroudi discusses her film Dolls. In Bahrain, a nationwide campaign is being launched to secure seats for women in parliament and all five municipal councils in next year’s elections. Firedoglake covers Rana Hussein’s book Murder in the name of honor. […]

Police have charged the British hoteliers who harassed a Muslim client. More here. Demand for hymen reconstruction surgery is rising in Turkey. Muslim and Dalit women India eradicate corruption in a local health centers. More on the mannequin situation in Iran. In the wake of Chesler vs. Wolf, a woman who actually wears an abaya […]

A British Muslim Women’s Group hosted a training seminar for women at the Deeplish Community Center. According to a study by the World Bank and Turkey’s State Planning Organization, Turkey needs to increase the proportion of women in the workforce in order to accelerate economic growth. A Malaysian Islamic court has sentenced a young unmarried […]