- Al Jazeera reports that a new Egyptian law guarantees 64 seats to female candidates, meaning a 1,500% rise in female parliamentarians.
- Remember Aisha? From the Time cover? Her father-in-law has been arrested in connection with her mutilation.
- Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has not been released from prison. We’re confused, too. Read up on what’s going on at The Guardian.
- The New York Times looks at Afghanistan’s women’s soccer team’s struggle to compete.
- Muslims in Ghana asked to help fight against domestic abuse.
- A new poll shows that a majority of Afghans view women attending school and voting positively.
- The Ottawa Citizen profiles the unstoppable Wafa Dabbagh.
- In Patna, India, a poster exhibition educates about Muslim women’s rights.
- Iran’s Ahmadinejad and Iran’s clerics differ in their views on women’s sports participation.
- An Orland Park, Il. man is accused of harassing two Muslim women.
- Lleida, Spain is the country’s first town to ban the niqab.
- The Philippines’ BusinessWorld gets its first female Muslim contributor.
- The Huffington Post profiles Pakistan’s leading youth blogger.
If we missed any news about Muslim women this week, post a link in the comments!
Just that the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF, Arabic Booker) shortlist is out, and, for the first time, two women made it: Miral al-Tahawy and Raja Alem.
http://arablit.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/the-arabic-booker-shortlist-is-out-and-yes-this-year-theres-more-than-one-woman/
So this year—although Amina Zaydan still made waves for declaring a woman couldn’t win the 2010 prize—the discussion and conspiracy theories can focus somewhere other than gender:
http://arablit.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/arabic-booker-shortlist-the-coverage-the-controversy-the-predictions/
Although in his commentary, eminent French-Arabic translator Richard Jacquemond suggests that, although he loved al-Tahawy’s Brooklyn Heights, gender may yet be a factor in deciding the winner…
http://arablit.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/arabic-booker-shortlist-the-coverage-the-controversy-the-predictions/#comments
Is that too many links?? Sorry.