Archive for August, 2011

• Friday Links | August 12, 2011

  August 12th, 2011 NPR looks at how religious leaders in Pakistan are misleading women about birth control and family planning: Zakaria...

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• From Somalia with Love (and Heavy-Handedness)

  August 9th, 2011 I was really looking forward to reading this book, as I still love young adult fiction and was...

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• The Guardian Turns a Water Pistol Fight into an Islamic Wet t-Shirt Contest

  August 8th, 2011 I found it refreshing to see pictures of a young Iranians taking part in a water pistol fight...

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• Friday Links | July 5, 2011

  August 5th, 2011 We’re exploring a Friday Links format here at MMW. It’s different than our usual. Let us know what...

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• Fatima Mernissi’s Struggle with Islam and Democracy

  August 4th, 2011 Fatima Mernissi’s book The Forgotten Queens of Islam is a historical study that analyzes women’s place in the...

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• Ahdaf Soueif’s Mezzaterra: Fiction or Reality?

  August 3rd, 2011 Ahdaf Soueif’s novel The Map of Love, published in 1999, tells the history of Egypt through two parallel...

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• Smearing Farha Ahmed

  August 2nd, 2011 In June, a small business lawyer and politician named Farha Ahmed was in a run-off election against Harish...

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• Ramadan Karim!

  August 1st, 2011 Salam alaikum, readers! We’d like to wish all of you a blessed and peaceful...

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