Muslim women in Jaipur, India, came out to vote in large numbers last week. Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil plans to run against Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz for the post of Wanita Umno chief in Malaysia at the party polls next March. The Guardian profiles photographer Haleh Anvari. Last week Bangladesh celebrated Begum Rokeya Day. […]

The Times Online reports on Britain’s only Muslim women’s cycling club. The Philadelphia Inquirer profiles Pray the Devil Back to Hell, a documentary about Muslim and Christian Liberian women joining together to stop Liberia’s civil war. Amid backlash, Malaysian authorities back down on the yoga ban. More analysis from The Star Online and Sun2Surf. On […]

Xpress News profiles traditional Emirati burqa makers (and wearers). Via Izzy Mo. The New York TImes interviews a Saudi rock band–made up of girls. Rock on, ladies! Via Progressive Muslima News. More from MidEast Youth. On women’s fashion in Malaysia. And speaking of Malaysia, the Sisters in Islam of Malaysia is pushing back against a […]

Salam waleykum, readers! The Friday Links are back, but not with much of a vengeance. It’s sort of a mish-mash of all the links I saved up from before I left on my trip, so there may be some old news here, as well as a half-assed attempt at more recent news (I got really […]

Salam, dear readers! I’m traveling this week, so I didn’t have time to do a lengthy link list. But here are the spoils from this week: Last week, we reported that a woman in Somalia had been executed for adultery. New reports show that she was 13 years old and had been raped. Via ifeminists. […]

Roksana Bahramitash speaks on a panel about Muslim women and artwork at the University of Southern Mississippi. A lively discussion about Muslim marriage and divorce oversights in Kerala, India. MR Zine interviews Nawal El Saadawi. More on Esha Momeni’s detainment from AFP, the BBC, the LA Times, and from the president of California State University […]

Last Friday, a girls’ school in northwest Pakistan was blown up. IRIN looks at the detrimental effect the Swat conflict has on girls’ education. Via WLUML. In response to the Amnesty International report on human rights in Saudi Arabia, the Riyadh-based Saudi National Human Rights Association will release its own report evaluating the country’s human […]

Al Ahram Weekly looks at the sexual assaults during Eid in Egypt. Two suspects are being tried currently. The BBC interviews a female suicide bombers in Gaza. Via Arabisto. The Herald writes more about the history of women in suicide bombing. More Indonesians against the anti-pornography bill. On November 24-25, the Second Ministerial Meeting on […]

A female fan jumps onstage and kisses Tamer Hosni during a concert in Kuwait, shutting down the concert early and outraging Kuwaiti parliament members. Eid celebrations in a Cairo suburb were marred after several women were sexually assaulted. A woman and her husband are harassed by three members of the Saudi Commission for the Promotion […]

Children at an Ohio mosque were sprayed with chemical irritant by unknown assailants. More at Daily Kos. Thea Lim writes about the lack of outrage in mainstream media, and the local police say there “isn’t evidence that this is a hate crime.” WHAT?! Karen Estes writes a thought-provoking post about what “hijab” has become. Afghanistan’s […]