Archive for July, 2008

• Be My Muslim Girlfriend

  July 31st, 2008 Recently Mara Brock Akil, creator and producer of one of my favourite shows, Girlfriends, was featured on the...

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• IslamOnline’s Modesty Chic

  July 30th, 2008 Fashion designers are now starting to see head scarves as the latest hot fashion trend. In an IslamOnline...

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• The New York Post’s Yellow Journalism Fever

  July 29th, 2008 Speaking of Muslim women’s clothing in the media…did we expect anything but Islamophobia and sexism from the New...

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• Looking at Muslim women’s clothing… again.

  July 28th, 2008 Every week, the Friday links here at Muslimah Media Watch include several stories about Muslim women’s clothing. Our...

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• Friday Links — July 25, 2007

  July 25th, 2008 On headscarves and generation gaps in Sarajevo. Al-Ahram profiles Egyptian pentathlete Aya Medani. The Asia Times looks at...

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• Modesty is in the Eye of the Writer

  July 24th, 2008 Last week, I critiqued the first of two articles on modesty written by Anam Majeed. Today I’ll look...

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• Operation Muslim Virgin

  July 23rd, 2008 Mona Eltahawy recently did an interview with Ron Kuby on Air America Radio on the recent New York...

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• Gay and Muslim!? Yes, It’s True!

  July 22nd, 2008 I saw this documentary, called Gay Muslims, quite a while ago…it came out more than two years ago!...

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• Beyond the burqa…with Bluetooth

  July 21st, 2008 MMW thanks G. Willow Wilson for the tip! Woah. When I first read this, it took me several...

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• MMW Updates

  July 21st, 2008 A few updates on the site: If you’ll scroll down a little, on the right you’ll see a...

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