Archive for April, 2009

• Random WTF – Financial Times Edition

  April 8th, 2009 Last Friday, the Financial Times covered the “richest race meeting in the world”, the 2009 Dubai World Cup....

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• “Just look at our women!” Or, how to use female bodies to prove your point

  April 7th, 2009 Check out Muslim Lookout for an expanded version of this post. Be prepared for some major eye-rolling in...

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• Al Huda – Guidance for a disunited community?

  April 6th, 2009 Her confidence overshadowed the edginess in her voice, when she proclaimed, live, on a very orthodox community radio station,...

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• Friday Links — April 3, 2009

  April 3rd, 2009 Arabian Business profiles the world’s most powerful Arab women, many of whom are Muslim. In Nigeria, the Federation...

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• The Hole Story: Sexual Abuse in a “Strict Muslim” Household

  April 2nd, 2009 “Sexual Abuse in Islamic Society” is the title of a recently published BBC article.* Right away, I knew...

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• Blast from the Past: Dissecting Alison Moyet’s “Love Resurrection”

  April 2nd, 2009 As we all know, pop culture can’t get enough of the mysterious ‘Orient’ and its ubiquitous exotic women....

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• Hard Times in Gaza: the BBC looks at Domestic Violence in Gaza Strip

  April 1st, 2009 Krista recently did an analysis of a BBC profile of Egyptian women’s participation in mosques and saw the...

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