- An interview with the ladies of Naqa’a, a Saudi-based group fighting against climate change.
- The New York Times covers a study regarding Muslim women’s health care needs and preferences. More from the USA Today.
- The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has welcomed human rights lawyer Cherie Blair’s comments in support of Muslim women.
- The recent election of Bahrain’s first female municipal councilor is boosting political hopes among the country’s women.
- Turkey’s First Lady Hayrünnisa Gül believes that girls should only wear headscarves once they are old enough to decide about it for themselves.
- Young Iraqi refugees in Syria often live life on the fringes of society, missing opportunities for schooling.
- The U.S. State Department set up a mentorship program to bring female Middle Eastern technology professionals to the U.S. for a five-week internship.
- Women’s headscarves are still the subject of political debate in Turkey.
- The Delhi State Unit of the All India Democratic Women’s Association works against triple talaq (divorce).
- Hürriyet Daily News asks if the headscarf is Turkish women’s greatest obstacle to education.
- George Washington University sets aside some time for female-only swim time at the pool, which gets everyone’s bikinis in a twist.
- The Chilean Ministry of Education has helped an eight-year-old Muslim student go back to school after she was expelled for wearing the hijab.
- Toronto wants you to be its first headscarf-wearing policewoman!
- A woman in Virginia was denied service at a convenience store because of her headscarf.
- Afghanistan is going to get its first national women’s cricket team.
- Anasy Media Production company is going to produce a film on hijab.
- A Muslim woman in Australia has her first shot at a kickboxing title.
- Russia’s Muslim-majority republic of Tatarstan recently hosted its first Islamic Fashion Week. Here are pictures!
- Mona Eltahawy writes about rape and taboo in Egypt.
- The Mor Çatı Women’s Shelter Foundation of Istanbul holds a benefit to build a new women’s shelter.
- The U.K.’s Ofcom has ruled that Islam Channel broke the broadcasting code for advocating marital rape, violence against women and describing women who wore perfume outside of the home as “prostitutes.”
- A secular Jewish father in France backs his two Muslim daughters’ right to wear the headscarf to school.
- Bosnian survivors of war write an open letter to Angelina Jolie.
- WLUML launches the Campaign to Promote Sexual & Bodily Rights across Muslim Societies One Day Struggle.
- teen voices interviews a young, civicly-engaged Muslim American woman.
Oh, forgot to tell you, this year the longlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (“Arabic Booker”) is nearly 50-50: 7 women and 9 men:
http://arablit.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/longlist-announced-for-international-prize-for-arabic-fiction-2011/
You had reported on how, in its first three years, there was only one woman on the shortlist each year… M.
Isn’t the one about the Jewish father a much older story? It even refers to Sarkozy as Interior Minister.
@Tec15: That story is dated as October 2010, but you’re right, it sounds like it might have been orinally written much earlier… (That or the journalist has very outdated information about the French govermnent!)