Author Archive

• Switzerland’s Minaret Ban: New Victims for an Old Propaganda

  December 28th, 2009 Last month, Swiss voters approved a ban on the construction of mosque minarets. It’s worth reminding everyone that...

  Read More »

  Continue

• 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...

  Read More »

  Continue

• Thanks to God, We Are Not Frightened: the Resistance of Women in Hezbollah

  October 7th, 2009 Women of Hezbollah is a 50-minute film directed by Maher Abi Samra. It takes place between 1996 and...

  Read More »

  Continue

• Your Joke is Not My Joke: Racism and Sexism in Jokes and Satire

  September 24th, 2009 Have you ever noticed how minorities—and oppressed people in general—lack a sense of humor? Lately, there have been...

  Read More »

  Continue

• Feminists in Neverland: Wolf and Chesler Play War

  September 16th, 2009 Salon’s “Feminists face off over the veil” is supposed to reflect a serious debate, not only related to...

  Read More »

  Continue

• The French (Dis)Connection: on the role of Media and Politics in the Burqa Ban

  September 10th, 2009 Aged patronizing feminists, young veiled victims (of Islamist threat), and endangered laïcité éternelle (everlasting secularism): those were the...

  Read More »

  Continue

• MMW introduces another new contributor!

  August 31st, 2009 Dear Muslimah Media Watch Readers, I’m princesse de Clèves, a new contributor based in Paris, France. As a...

  Read More »

  Continue