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Natalia Antonova for ArabComment explains why Sufiya Yousuf’s life decisions are none of our business.
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Women in Kyrgyzstan who have contracted HIV get little support.
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Newsweek looks at the lack of safety for women in Iraq.
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The Jamia Millia Islamia in India opens a senior secondary school exclusively for girls in order to promote education among Muslim women.
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This year’s theme for the Boston Muslim Film Festival is “Think-different Women” and they’ve got the films to back it up.
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The Young Muslim Women’s League helps tsunami-affected schools by donating supplies.
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Reuters discusses the impact of the indictment against Turkey’s ruling party on Turkish women who wear headscarves.
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Because of an error, the Israeli air force elite recently got itself a female Muslim soldier. But because she impressed them so much with her abilities and achievements, they’re keeping her.
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Feminist scholar Miriam Cooke, who has written scores of books about Muslim women, will give a presentation entitled, “The New Visibility of Muslim Women.”
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A group that helps female Muslim victims of domestic violence will receive an increased share government aid.
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A Muslim woman defies stereotypes of Muslim women just by being a successful business entrepreneur. Barikallah!
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Akram Mahdavi faces execution for conspiracy to murder.
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A woman unknowingly sent to Iraq as a migrant worker sues her agent.
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As death threats against Shirin Ebadi intensify, Iran’s president orders the police to protect her and her family.
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The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reports that violence against women has doubled since last year.
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Poverty and hunger drive some Afghan parents to marry off their daughters at too-early ages.
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Sabria Jawhar for Arabisto discusses the positive aspects of Saudi Arabia’s latest easing o gender segregation in the workplace.
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Marriage in Iraq is becoming “a casualty of war.”
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A Muslim woman wins Evening Wear Designer Award at Miami Fashion Week. Barikallah!
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The number of Muslim women who participate in the Olympics is rising.
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Katha Pollitt asks, “What’s the big deal?” about The Harvard Gym Shebangabang.
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Jeddah opens a cooking academy in an effort to empower women. Oh…kay?
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Women’s rights activists in Yemen lost a battle with the Yemeni Parliament to ban female genital cutting.
- The Muslimahs Speak Up! blog carnival is up over at Writeous Sister Speaks! Be sure to check it out!
Re violence against women in Pakistan:Worse?! Things are getting worse?!I thought with time things would progress but as with other arenas of life Pakistan perpetually seems to be going backwards. Such a shame for Pakistan.
the link you posted about the afghan child brides: when i read the part about the 10-year old child who was in labor with a child of her own…that really killed me. =(what i don’t understand is if the families are so poverty stricken, why do they have more kids than they can manage to take care of? the only reason they’re selling off their kids like this is because they don’t have the funds to provide for them anymore.sigh.
Birth control. Lack of education about family planning. The Bush administration’s Global Gag Rule and refusal to fund family planning services in the countries they aid/invade/invest in.
And I think for some families it’s also a matter of ‘keep trying until you have a boy.’And some religious people say birth control is wrong. There was a mosque in Pakistan a while ago which was teaching it’s congregation about birth control because the population problem in the area was so bad. Some Imams and mullahs in India were all upset about it saying it was unIslamic. Kind of funny when you consider that India has the second largest population in the world and the belief is that its the Muslims of India who are responsible for that. Of course, they’d be against birth control.
I kind of liked the Katha Pollit article. Although it made me long for the day when MUSLIM’S WOMEN’S VOICES REALLY MATTER and not just the voices that tell people what they want to hear about us. The one thing that is indeed real in the article is the extent to which Muslim women are the bodies on which everyone projects their ideas of the proper exercise of freedom and sexuality. The older and crankier I get the more annoyed I get with the fact that women’s jeans are always constructed tighter, that women’s shirts are always cut shorter or tighter across the chest. I’m so glad I was the only girl in the family and was dressed like a tomboy! How grateful I am that I grew up in the 90s baggy era : )