- More on Lubna al-Hussein and the Trouser Fiasco: here, here, and resulting social issue unrest here.
- In Nigeria, Hauwa Ibrahim fights Shariah with Shariah.
- The wife of Daniel P. Boyd, who is currently charged by the U.S. in a terror plot, defends her family and denounces her treatment by U.S. marshals.
- More on France’s negligible burqa findings.
- KABOBfest follows up on the Burqa Ban.
- Nuseiba revisits the Stolen documentary.
- The Dawn gets into the Great Veil Debate.
- Zainah Anwar discusses the injustices of Lubna al-Hussein’s case and Kartika Sari Dewi Sukarno’s cases.
- G. Willow Wilson writes about the Ideal Husband at City of Brass.
- The Dawn’s slideshow on female footballers in Pakistan’s championship.
- Women in Saudi Arabia staged a rare demonstration at Taif University, alleging discriminatory admissions policies. More here.
- In Jordan, men using the niqab to commit crimes creates real problems for women who wear it.
- Reza Aslan discusses Neda Agha Soltan’s legacy.
- NPR discusses Afghan women’s participation and difficulties in upcoming elections.
- Iraqi women take it to the (wrestling) mat.
- The National interviews Sarah Elenany. Via Hijab Style.
- A Toronto mosque overflowed with mourners for a mother and her two daughters who drowned. May Allah give them peace.
- A Dutch TV show will highlight a women who wears niqab.
- Mona El Tahawy speaks about her experiences at WISE in Kuala Kumpur.
- Samana Siddiqui discusses divorce and American Muslims.
- Saudi Amber dissects the problems of Saudi’s first female minister.
- Muslim clothing company Marabo is going out of business.
- Quebec, Canada, reconsiders its ban on the hijab, among other things.
- A woman in New Jersey plans to open a shelter for Muslim women.
- On women’s job opportunities (or lack thereof) in Saudi Arabia.
- Shazia Rafi writes that girls in the Swat valley need education most of all right now.
- The daughter-in-law of Iran’s former president and current politian Rafsanjani was arrested and then released for participating in riots during Ahmadinejad’s inauguration.
- Khawla Al-Azraq recounts her stay in an Israeli prison.
- Muslim women in Britain do not report racism.
- Pakistan’s National Assembly passed a bill outlawing domestic violence.
- Ayatollah Khomeini’s granddaughter speaks out about the protesters in Iran, urging police to reveal the identities of the detainees for their families.
Re: Dawn article on the veil
This. Yes. So true.
“While we busy ourselves in discussing the veil issue in western counties like France and secular Muslim republics like Turkey, bemoaning the discrimination faced by Muslim women there who observe the veil, we conveniently forget that in most Muslim countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia and increasingly, Pakistan, women who believe that modest dressing can be demonstrated without observing hijab are coming under pressure”