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	<description>Looking at Muslim women in the media and pop culture</description>
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		<title>Friday Links &#124; May 25, 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/05/friday-links-may-25-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 06:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anneke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the upcoming June 19 elections in Libya, Libyan women hope to secure a good amount of seats in the national assembly. The Saudi Gazette features a story about a Saudi woman, Alya Al-Ghamdi, whose ex-husband denies her the right to see her children, supposedly because he is afraid that her new British Muslim husband [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEDx Mogadishu and the Symbolic Rebirth of a Torn Society</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/05/tedx-mogadishu-and-the-symbolic-rebirth-of-a-torn-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 06:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Society]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amina Hagi Elmi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ilwad Elman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mogadishu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suad Ibrahim Habibullah]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[TEDxMogadishu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During the past three decades, global perceptions of Somalia have for the most part been shaped by images of the country as a disaster area, ravaged by poverty and war. Somalia seems to appear in the news only in the context of humanitarian assistance appeals or of Al Qaeda-inspired militias carrying out their heinous acts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life in a Women&#8217;s Shelter in Palestine: Q &amp; A with Samar Hazboun</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/05/life-in-a-womens-shelter-in-palestine-q-a-with-samar-hazboun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 06:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture/Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestinian Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samar Hazboun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women's shelter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10843</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post was written by guest contributor Arwa Aburawa. Back in December 2011, gender-based violence hit the headlines in the Arab world when soldiers brutally attacked a hijab-wearing Egyptian protester. Following the incident, there was widespread outrage that a woman would be treated in such a violent manner. And rightly so. However, it got me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change Is Now? No, Not Yet: Manuel Valls as France&#8217;s New Interior Minister</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/05/change-is-now-no-not-yet-manuel-valls-as-frances-new-interior-minister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 06:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laïcité]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manuel Valls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niqab ban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secularism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10836</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was rather excited about Francois Hollande winning the French elections this month.  I hoped that five years of hateful, fear mongering policy towards Muslims by Sarkozy and his minions would come to an end and that Hollande, for all his supposed blandness, would bring some low-key normalcy to the French presidency. There was one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Name of the Caliphate: What the “Islamic State” Seems to Mean for Muslim Women</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/05/in-the-name-of-the-caliphate-what-the-%e2%80%9cislamic-state%e2%80%9d-seems-to-mean-for-muslim-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 06:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caliphate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim Brotherhood]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ever wondered about “Islamization” and the so-called return to the Caliphate, recent debates arising from a number of Muslim countries regarding the “Islamization” and the status of Muslim women bring important questions to the table. First of all, it raises the question of what really is the “Islamic state” and what describes it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Links &#124; May 18, 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/05/friday-links-may-18-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/05/friday-links-may-18-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 06:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anneke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Friday Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty years after the war in Bosnia, there are still refugees living in makeshift camps that lack basic necessities, such as running water. Many of the refugees are elderly women, who are often widowed because of the war, and have nowhere else to go. A Filipino newspaper published a picture last week of a woman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Good Muslim</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/05/book-review-the-good-muslim/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/05/book-review-the-good-muslim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 06:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books/Magazines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tahmima Anam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Good Muslim]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10813</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This piece was written by Sarah Farrukh, and originally posted at altmuslimah. Written by Tahmima Anam, The Good Muslim is the story of an educated, “modern” woman who loses her brother to Islamic fundamentalism. And perhaps this storyline is why the book has garnered so many rave reviews and literary awards—because Western critics and audiences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maria Toor Pakay vs. the World</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/05/maria-toor-pakay-vs-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/05/maria-toor-pakay-vs-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 06:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merium</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Toor Pakay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Waziristan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squash]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a 2010 television interview, quoted in a more recent article (I was not able to find an original recording of the interview), Pakistan’s highest-ranking female squash player, Maria Toor Pakay, spoke on the rights of women in Pakistan: “Girls don’t get any rights. They cannot go out of the house. They cannot do whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isabelle Eberhardt: Swiss Explorer, Sufi Adventurer</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/05/isabelle-eberhardt-swiss-explorer-sufi-adventurer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/05/isabelle-eberhardt-swiss-explorer-sufi-adventurer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 06:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tasnim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art/Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isabelle Eberhardt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Song from the Uproar]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10790</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Isabelle Eberhardt’s extraordinary life is the stuff of legends – and movies, and operas. Song From the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt, Missy Mazzoli&#8217;s multi-media opera, which premiered this spring, explores the unconventional twists and turns of Eberhardt’s short, &#8220;operatic&#8221; life. You can see the trailer, the Kickstart video, some excerpts and a shorter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Links &#124; May 11, 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/05/friday-links-may-11-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/05/friday-links-may-11-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 06:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anneke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Friday Links]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Victims of bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan cannot rely on the Kyrgyz legal system for help, even though the practice is legally forbidden. One reason for this is that many of these marriages are religious marriages only, and are not registered as civil marriages. According to Kyrgyz official up to 8,000 girls are bridenapped annually, based on [...]]]></description>
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