Friday Links — January 22, 2010

Salam alaikum, readers! I’ve got quite a lot on my plate this week, so I’m afraid I’m going to have to do a slap-dash job of the Links this week. Apologies!

• gulfnews : Feminism in the Arab world

• DAWN.COM | National | Jury selected for Dr Aafia’s trial

• Anything for fair skin, even SR30,000 placenta shot

• We will not send women to work as housemaids in Kingdom: Egyptian minister

• Qassim women start computer business

• Women set their targets on the Turkish hunting scene

• Stereotype studies won’t save lives

• gulfnews : Fresh graduate sets up frozen yoghurt empire in UAE

• Islam in Europe: Denmark: Burka report based on guesswork

• Race Card: French Law to Target Muslim Women | Bitch Magazine

• Egypt: battling sexual harassment on the phone | Bikya Masr

• Saudi rights body lauds steps to empower women

• Women media beautifies the current Yemeni media landscape
• Al Aan TV empowers women with brand new show Amira

• Abu Dhabi court jails 13 for trafficking Moroccan women

• Muslim accuses Christian teacher of snatching veil

• Farah Salka – Caritas shelter for trafficked women turning into a prison…act Now!

• Iran threatened by female activists

• Egypt: battling sexual harassment on the phone

• Expat women seek more work choices

• Child marriages still continue

• Amid cabinet setback, Afghan women face slow political climb

• gulfnews : Shaikha Fatima receives wife of Turkish prime minister

• Iran hands over two Turkish women arrested for PKK links – Hurriyet …

• Documentary on First Female Iranian Olympian to Premiere at Sundance

• Campaign on violence against women and children tackles taboos

• Women behind the wheel

• Trafficked women’s deep sense of relief after trial verdicts

• Human traffickers jailed for life

• Seven Syrians Get Life
for Human Trafficking

• Women line up to hail Kuwait’s pink taxis

• Women’s fitness center closed
• Princess Khuloud’s research to help understand breast cancer

• Women who wear the burka should be banned from benefits and public transport, claims French government spokesman | Mail Online

• Prostitution in Lahore, Pakistan « GOATMILK: An intellectual playground edited by Wajahat Ali
• Syrian jailed 14 years for ‘honour killing’ of cousin – thestar.com

• Stress, quarrels and neglect: the ‘normal’ polygamous family | openDemocracy

• Pakistan’s female squash player defies tradition

• Al-Qaeda Woman? Putting Aafia Siddiqui on Trial

• Afghanistan: Women Dying and Torture Run Amuck

• Islam in Europe: Denmark: PM supports ban on burkas in school

• Improvisations: Arab Woman Progressive Voice: The Fabulous Elia Suleiman

• Sarkozy Says Burqa is Not Welcome in France … Again – elan: The Guide to Global Muslim Culture

• Kuwait Cabs for Women Paint the Town Pink – elan: The Guide to Global Muslim Culture
• Egypt: Coptic man accused of rape has trial postponed | Bikya Masr
• Girl reportedly commits suicide in eastern city – Hurriyet Daily News …
• Saudi girl, 13, sentenced to 90 lashes after she took a mobile phone to school

• Saudi ‘sorcerer’ who raped 100 sentenced to death

• ‘Illegal’ Saudi women’s gym shut: media

• How Asian women made trade union history and shattered stereotypes

• Egyptian female bodyguards trade hijabs for aikido / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com

• It is not part of anyone’s culture to be abused | Jasvinder Sanghera – Times Online

• Iran Unfiltered – Home – Q&A with Fatemeh Haghighatjoo

• Hijabi Mama: breastfeed in public without the worry

• Contemporary Muslim Woman Series: “Love or Arranged Marriage?” by Naila Sheikh « GOATMILK: An intellectual playground edited by Wajahat Ali

• Kidnapped Tarragona woman still missing : Euro-Islam: News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and the United States

• KUWAIT: New job listings website serves Arab women | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times

• No religious justification for child marriage: Saudi cleric – Yahoo! News

• Muslim women refugees say they are safe but still struggling

• Hairdos now in Indonesia Muslim clerics crosshairs

• Ambreen Sadiq, Muslim girl boxer, aims to combat prejudice to succeed in the ring

• Mauritanian Muslim imams initiate rare ban on female circumcision

• Sudan: Al-Hussein is Runner-Up

• Women’s Fitness Center Forced To Close In Saudi Arabia

• Arrests For A Revealing Dance Pit Flesh Against Faith

• women reciting Quran in spotlight

• Burqa Unwelcome in Denmark: PM

• Documentary on First Female Iranian Olympian to Premiere at Sundance

• Women behaving badly in mosques

• ‘Veiled threats’ from Egypt’s nightclub owners

• Women reject fatwa on hairstyles, ‘ojek’

As always, if you see new stories about Muslim women we missed, feel free to post them in the comments!