Archive for March, 2009

• WAM! Conference Recap

  March 31st, 2009 Salam waleykum, readers! I’m back from the Women, Action & Media! conference in Boston. It was a great...

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• New contributor in town!

  March 30th, 2009 Salam and apa khabar everybody, I am now officially part of MMW! Regular readers may already know me...

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• The Day I Met Amina Wadud – a Critique

  March 27th, 2009 Salam waleykum, readers! I’m traveling, and so I didn’t have time to put together Friday Links this week....

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• WAM! Conference

  March 26th, 2009 Salam waleykum, readers! I’m in Boston this weekend, attending the Women, Action & The Media Conference (WAM!). This...

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• Introduction

  March 26th, 2009 Dear Readers Wishing you all the peace and blessings of the Universe. This is my very first post...

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• Pushing the Law: Challenges for Divorced Women in Malaysia

  March 25th, 2009 After Sobia’s post last week about The Other Half of the Sky, a Tunisian film that tells a...

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• Oppressed and Downtrodden: The New York Times Profiles Abused Afghan Women

  March 25th, 2009 Covering Afghan women must be an especially hard task for many Western journalists. I say this because every...

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• From Bikinis to Hijabs: Using Psychology to Your Advantage

  March 24th, 2009 My eyebrows raised when I read this article on IslamOnline. The article, entitled Study: Men Objectify Scantily Clad...

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• Pimp My Daughter: Iraqi Women and Prostitution

  March 23rd, 2009 I saw the movie Taken with my friend and her husband the other day and walked out of...

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• Friday Links — March 20, 2009

  March 20th, 2009 Ethar writes about how Egyptian universities and banks are teaming up to improve Egyptian women’s business skills. Hurriyet...

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