Archive for December, 2009

• The Afghan Women Tug of War

  December 7th, 2009 This was written by Frau Sally Benz and originally published at Feministe. Earlier this week, GRITtv posted an...

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• Friday Links — December 4, 2009

  December 4th, 2009 The American Spectator talks about how “un-Islamic” the niqab is. (eyeroll) Meanwhile, Tariq Ramadan believes France’s attempt to...

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• The Burqa Barbie Brouhaha

  December 3rd, 2009 A recent decision to auction a “Burqa Barbie” for a Save the Children fundraising campaign (“to educate children...

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• Looking at Little Mosque’s Layla

  December 3rd, 2009 It’s been a little while since we last discussed Little Mosque on the Prairie, a Canadian television sitcom...

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• Do Muslim Feminists Have Too Much to Worry About Already to Think About Homophobia?

  December 2nd, 2009 This was originally published at Cycads. Once a week, I meet with people studying gender in the Middle...

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• Questioning Marnia Lazreg’s One-Way Correspondence with Muslim Women

  December 1st, 2009 Reading Marnia Lazreg’s new book Questioning the Veil (Princeton University Press, 2009) was at the same time a...

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