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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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Unpacking #MuslimMaleAllies


Posted by amina on 24 Mar 2014 / 1 Comment
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Earlier this month, Shaykh Abu Eesa Niamatullah wreaked havoc on International Women’s Day (IWD) after posting a series of painfully sexist comments on Twitter and Facebook. Reactions were virtually instant and plentiful. Among the more interesting responses, Hind Makki started using #MuslimMaleAllies on Twitter. That the hashtag became widely popular raises questions about the expectations […]

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Muslim Anti-Racist Collaborative Centres Black Muslim Voices


Posted by sharrae on 18 Mar 2014 / 0 Comments
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Black Muslims took to Twitter last month in light of Black History Month, which is celebrated in February in North America. The Muslim Anti-Racist Collaborative (MuslimARC), a collaborative of diverse Muslims dedicated to combatting anti-Black racism, discrimination and exclusion within the Muslim community, launched a Twitter campaign that has opened the door to discussing anti-black […]

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Culture/Society

Am I Dressed Appropriately? Or Why That’s None of Your Business


Posted by shireen on 15 Jan 2014 / 8 Comments
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Last Wednesday, social media was abuzz with the published findings of a recent study conducted in the “Muslim world” (Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey). The initial study was done by University of Michigan and looked at religious tolerance and secularism in Tunisia in comparison with six other nations.  Although the initial […]

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Culture/Society

Tweeting Change the Fahira Idris Way


Posted by Guest Contributor on 08 Apr 2013 / 0 Comments
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This post was written by guest contributor Afia R. Fitriati (@AfiaRF) In a similar manner that social media helped to catalyze the Arab Spring, Indonesians are increasingly using social media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to reach out to others, build awareness of social issues, harness support and eventually create positive changes that the […]

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More about Sexual Harassment in Egypt


Posted by emanhashim on 06 Sep 2012 / 0 Comments
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It is no secret that sexual harassment is a very dangerous phenomenon in Egypt streets. What is striking is that it is getting worse, not better. I have been suffering from street sexual harassment for years, and wrote 2 years ago that I no longer had any tolerance for it. I described how I would […]

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