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	<title>Muslimah Media Watch &#187; Politics</title>
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	<description>Looking at Muslim women in the media and pop culture</description>
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		<title>Using Islamic Identity Against Victims of Sexual Violence</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/using-islamic-identity-against-victims-of-sexual-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sharrae</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Balayla Ahmad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[N.S. Case]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niqab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual harassment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As right-wing pundits are gaining momentum in North America, minority groups are unsurprisingly being targeted.  Among the questions being raised is: when does “national security” trump the need to address an instance of sexual assault against women? Muslim women, especially those who wear the hijab or niqab, experience a unique sense of vulnerability in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NiqaBitch Did it Better</title>
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		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/niqabitch-did-it-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[An-Sofie Dewinter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niqab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niqabitch]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As MMW’s Artsy Niqab Spotter, man my hands are full!  If I’m not checking out French performance artists or Swiss campaign posters with minarets and niqabs, there are just so many people using niqabs as their accessory du jour and not enough time to write about them all.  I can’t keep up! So I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting the Revolution: How Far Have Egyptian Women Come?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/revisiting-the-revolution-how-far-have-egyptian-women-come/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/revisiting-the-revolution-how-far-have-egyptian-women-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egyptian women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[January 25]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, January 25th, 2011: the day thousands of Egyptians—Christians and Muslims, men and women, young and old—lined the streets of Tahrir Square in non-violent, civil-resistance in attempt to overthrow the regime of then President, Hosni Mubarak. A year later, Wikipedia hosts a page titled “2011 Egyptian Revolution;” Egyptians mourn the loss of their sons, brothers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marching with Dignity &#8211; &#8220;Sisters&#8221; or Not</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/01/marching-with-dignity-sisters-or-not/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/01/marching-with-dignity-sisters-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>emanhashim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manal Abul-Hassan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim Brotherhood]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a month ago, here on MMW, I tried to highlight the fact that mainstream media was focusing on Islamists’ statements regarding what women wear, while, in fact, what was even more dangerous was their vision regarding women and child law. I referred in that article to quotations from Dr. Manal Abul-Hassan about allowing female [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nina Burleigh’s Contradictory Discussion of “Oxymoronic Creatures”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diana</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Azza al Garf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nina Burleigh]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Slate recently ran a piece about Azza al Garf, dubbing her a “culturally regressive trailblazer,” and likening her to well-known American female conservatives such as Michele Bachman and Sarah Palin. Azza al Garf, a female member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party who was recently elected to the post-revolutionary Egyptian Parliament, had not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Arab Women, Change in the Digital Reality is Coming, but Slowly</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/01/for-arab-women-change-in-the-digital-reality-is-coming-but-slowly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/01/for-arab-women-change-in-the-digital-reality-is-coming-but-slowly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=9898</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By all standards, 2011 was quite an exceptional year for men and women in the Arab world. It was a year of dramatic transitions marked by the so-called Arab Spring of political democratization and social emancipation. It all started in Tunisia, going through Egypt and Libya in the West, and continuing to drag on in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Too Much into Veenagate</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/01/reading-too-much-into-veenagate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/01/reading-too-much-into-veenagate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asra Nomani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nosheen Iqbal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veena Malik]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=9854</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Veena Malik is a Pakistani actress with a special flair for controversy. She first made major headlines after confronting a Mullah who accused her of inappropriate and vulgar behavior while participating on the Indian reality show ‘Bigg Boss.’ Her confrontation was praised by many, as she took a stand against general double-standards thrown at men [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Iranian Women to Egyptian Women?</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/01/from-iranian-women-to-egyptian-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/01/from-iranian-women-to-egyptian-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>emanhashim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=9710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after the results of the first stage of the Egyptian parliament elections, everyone started to freak out.  After the majority win of Islamist parties Al-Nahda party in Tunisia and the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) in Egypt, memories from Sudan in 1989, Gaza in 2006, and, most importantly, Iran in 1979 came to mind. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MMW 2011 Year in Review: Head Coverings and Head-Shaking</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/12/mmw-2011-year-in-review-head-coverings-and-head-shaking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/12/mmw-2011-year-in-review-head-coverings-and-head-shaking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books/Magazines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture/Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hijab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Year in review]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=9663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As 2011 draws to a close, we at MMW are looking back at our year of posts.  For those who missed posts earlier in the year, or for those who want to look back through some of the things we wrote about, we’ll be going through some of those through the rest of this week.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women in the 2011 Revolutions: Tawakul Karman</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/12/women-in-the-2011-revolutions-tawakul-karman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/12/women-in-the-2011-revolutions-tawakul-karman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tawakul Karman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yemen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=9638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post was written by guest contributor Summar Shammakhi. For a long time, negative impressions have dominated world’s opinion of women in the Middle East and North Africa region. Media depictions of women as second-class citizens often deemphasises the root causes of the problem, which include the repressive, dictatorship-led countries of this region who sought [...]]]></description>
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