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On Mannequins and Messaging in the New York Times


Posted by Guest Contributor on 10 Feb 2011 / 0 Comments
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This article was written for Muslimah Media Watch by Anny Gaul. Yesterday, The New York Times ran an article about what Iraqi women are wearing these days. It paints a picture of a once-secular society’s pluralism run amok: “Vendors around the Kadhimiya mosque in northern Baghdad sell all manner of women’s clothing, from drape-like black […]

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“Report from a Pashtun Teen” in the New York Times


Posted by azra on 25 Aug 2010 / 0 Comments
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After reading Nicholas Kristof and Sheryll WuDunn’s Half the Sky earlier this year, I began to frequent Kristof’s blog at the New York Times website, “On the Ground.”  While I found parts of his book lacking in portraying some of the women’s own voices (there are places where women from the developing world are portrayed […]

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The Other Half of the Sky: the NYT Magazine’s Women’s Crusade Issue


Posted by sarayasin on 26 Aug 2009 / 0 Comments
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At the heart of many of the problems plaguing Muslim women in developing nations is a dollar bill, not a Qur’an. That was the overall impression I received from reading last Sunday’s Times Magazine. The issue of women in developing nations may not appear to be an impending issue for the Muslim community. In fact, […]

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The “Limit of Tolerance” of a white, privileged, non-Muslim man


Posted by faith on 14 Apr 2009 / 0 Comments
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I wrote a post last week on the flogging that took place in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and my thoughts on the video. This week, Randy Cohen, a columnist for The New York Times, wrote a piece on the ethics of what took place in Pakistan, as well as the recent law proposed in Afghanistan. While […]

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Oppressed and Downtrodden: The New York Times Profiles Abused Afghan Women


Posted by faith on 25 Mar 2009 / 0 Comments
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Covering Afghan women must be an especially hard task for many Western journalists. I say this because every piece I have read about Afghan women makes them seem like they are some of the most oppressed women in the world, with little to no hope for happiness, sans intervention by a Western savior or “Western” […]

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