- Muslims in England weighs in on the Burqa Ban. More from The Washington Post.
- Saudi Amber comments on the significance of the four female Kuwaiti parliament members elected a few months ago.
- the long slumber comments on sexual harassment in the Arab world. He also pointed us to a very interesting refutation of myths about female sexuality.
- “What Middle Eastern Women Can Teach Us.” Uh…something about backhanded compliments, perhaps?
- Muslim women in Ghana look to eradicate superstition.
- Katha Pollitt writes about Lubna al-Hussein for The Nation.
- Media campagins helped successfuly return Heba Najeeb to Egypt.
- Singer Houria Aïchi brings traditional Berber singing into the modern age.
- The man who threatened a woman with acid and blackmail because she refused to go out with him has been sentenced to two months in jail and 60 lashes.
- New Zealand launches an online directory of Muslim women’s groups in the country.
- A survey of Muslim women in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh reveals that many women are not okay with polygyny.
- Many believe Shariah in Nigeria isn’t working out.
- CNN “uncovers” hijab myths. (yawn)
- A woman wearing a burqini in Paris was denied access to a local pool. She has threatened legal action. Shabana Mir delves into the issue further.
- Egypt has made its first arrest against female genital cutting.
- A man has confessed to the 2006 rape and murder of prominent Iraqi TV reporter Atwar Bahjat. May Allah give her peace and justice.
- The Dawn remembers Nazia Hassan ten years after her death.
- IslamOnline looks at how U.S. Muslims are combating domestic violence.
- The head of the women’s council for the Tehran Chamber of Commerce believes that there is “no fertile ground” for Iranian women to participate in economic activities.
- Turkish and Moroccan girls in the Netherlands often do not seek help when they have been raped or assaulted.
- More on Syria’s new penal code against honor killing.
- Meanwhile, in Mali, a newly-adopted family code in Mali that changes marriage laws and expands girls’ rights is eliciting vows to block the law from Muslim leaders.
- An English MP gets his underpants in a twist over a gender segregated Muslim wedding.
- Bahija Bint Baha Azzi, Secretary General of the International Muslim Organization for Women and Family, believes that some customs and traditions deprive women of rights.
- More analysis on hijab troubles in Europe.
- Bilal Randeree writes about Women’s Day in South Africa.
- The Emirates will launch a “Know Your Rights” program in October.
- Nuseiba weighs in on Lubna al-Hussein and the history of women’s rights in Sudan.
- Muslims in England looks at Baba Ali’s online matrimony website.
- Swedish pharmacy chain Apoteket will now offer headscarves as part of company uniform.
- Amal points out that there are no women in Fatah’s newly-elected central committee.
- Several articles come out against new legislation in Afghanistan.
- Iran denies claims that male and female detainees have been raped and tortured in prison.
- Two Vietnamese refugees work to help refugee Iraqi women.
Salaam girls!
Maybe this is not worthy of being covered on this site (it’s not in the mainstream media, but a rather Islamophobe site), but MMW was the first thing I thought when reading this most absurd piece on niqab that I have read yet. I was actually laughing out by the time I got to the end, but you can find multiple flaws in most sentences.
http://www.libertiesalliance.org/?p=2365
“A visible certificate attached to a burqa would suffice. This certificate would need to be dated and renewed once a year at a special office of the state. The certificate would be issued once the interviewer is satisfied that the woman is a free agent and willingly wears a burqa in weather that is normally too hot to wear such apparel.”
Keep up the good work
Sexual Harassment in the Arab World:
I found those articles to be interesting. As a feminist, I do believe that sexual harrassment is mainly about power. But in the case of Egypt and how there’s an issue of pent up sexual frustration, perhaps that is the case. I just wonder, why is there sexual frustration? Is it because Egypt is sexual repressed? If this is the case, then yes I would agree, because when there is sexual some kind of sexual repression going on, it can come out in the most ugly ways. I could be wrong about this.