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Posted by samya on 03 Apr 2015 / 0 Comments
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Tajik state television has aired a documentary that alleges that prostitutes in the country have been wearing Islamic veils to earn more money.   Once a month, Muslim women gather in a bright open space inside a brick building near downtown Los Angeles. They come for jumu’ah or Friday prayer. This “all women’s mosque” has […]

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Disabled Muslims Need More than Du’a to Overcome Mosque Barriers


Posted by syahirah on 23 Sep 2014 / 0 Comments
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“How is your situation with attending the mosque?” begins a video by Kuwaiti preacher Mishary Al-Kharaz, before he introduces us to his “friend in Yemen”. The video shows Kamal, a young man with a “handicap”, as he enters a mosque, prays sitting on a chair and then goes up to the second floor after the […]

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Books/Magazines

Take Off Your Veil to Rock the World


Posted by Krista Riley on 30 Oct 2013 / 2 Comments
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The daughter of a close friend recently turned 10, and I went to a children’s book and toy store to look for a gift.  I made my way past the picture books, marvelling at how fast the time has gone since I was buying her a Scaredy Squirrel book for her sixth birthday, and stood […]

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Pink Yemen Taxi‏


Posted by woodturtle on 30 Jan 2013 / 0 Comments
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In recent years, women-only taxi services offering convenient and safe transit have sprung up in major cities all over the globe. These “pink taxis,” driven by women for women, offer a variety of benefits — not only giving women the option of avoiding harassment by male drivers, but also offer employment opportunities, business ownership, and in some cases, empowered […]

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From Images of Piety to the Arab Spring and Anonymous Women in Burkas


Posted by eren on 27 Mar 2012 / 0 Comments
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The World Press Photo contest is a competition where the best professional photographers have a chance to showcase their work. The contest focuses on photojournalism and features photographers from all over the world. Last year the controversial photo of Bibi Aisha, taken by Jodi Bieber and featured in Time Magazine (which MMW covered here), won […]

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Women in the 2011 Revolutions: Tawakul Karman


Posted by Guest Contributor on 26 Dec 2011 / 0 Comments
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This post was written by guest contributor Summar Shammakhi. For a long time, negative impressions have dominated world’s opinion of women in the Middle East and North Africa region. Media depictions of women as second-class citizens often deemphasises the root causes of the problem, which include the repressive, dictatorship-led countries of this region who sought […]

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Women’s Voices in the Revolutions Sweeping the Middle East


Posted by tasnim on 21 Feb 2011 / 0 Comments
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Google executive Wael Ghonim became one of the faces of the Egyptian revolution through the Facebook page “We are all Khalid Said,” which was a vital spark to the revolution. But another important spark was a video posted by 26-year-old Asmaa Mahfouz from the April 6 Youth Movement, where she declared that she was going […]

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From Bikinis to Burkas: How to Write Another Clichéd Tell-All Exposé


Posted by malika on 20 Jan 2010 / 0 Comments
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It’s hard not to judge a book by its cover, or in this case, an article by its headline, when the first words that scream out at you are: From bikinis to burkas: A Yemeni memoir. If your first thought is, “Not again. Haven’t we been down this cliché-littered road before?” then you’re not alone. […]

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