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	<title>Muslimah Media Watch</title>
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	<description>Looking at Muslim women in the media and pop culture</description>
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		<title>Playing on Old Fears: Coverage of Iran’s Female Ninjas</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/playing-on-old-fears-coverage-of-iran%e2%80%99s-female-ninjas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iranian women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kunoichis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ninjas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ninjutsu]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amid speculations that Iran has made advances in nuclear technology for the purpose of making nuclear weapons, Iranian women have become inserted into the dicey conversation. Numerous news sources have made it their prerogative to discuss exactly how Iranian women fit into this hypothetically catastrophic situation. Oddly enough, they aren’t plugging the ancient and sad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zenocrate and Zabina in Marlowe&#8217;s Tamburlaine</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/zenocrate-and-zabina-in-marlowes-tamburlaine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/zenocrate-and-zabina-in-marlowes-tamburlaine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tasnim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art/Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marlowe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamburlaine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zenocrate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The two parts of Christopher Marlowe&#8217;s play Tamburlaine, loosely based on the life of  the Central Asian emperor Timur the Lame, tell the story of the Scythian shepherd who becomes a conqueror of kings. Although this play was written in the 1588,  it gives us an insight into representations of Muslim women at the time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Traditional Women Roles in the Age of Emancipation</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/muhtesem-yuzyil-traditional-women-roles-in-the-age-of-emancipation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/muhtesem-yuzyil-traditional-women-roles-in-the-age-of-emancipation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>samya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muhteşem Yüzyıl]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Living in an Arab country, I think anyone would find it rather difficult to overlook the feverish debates sparked by Arabic-dubbed Turkish soap operas featured on Arab television screens. Three years ago, it was the spectacular drama series Noor that captivated the region’s (and MMW’s) attention. But this time in 2012, it is the dazzling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Links &#124; February 17, 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/friday-links-friday-february-17/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/friday-links-friday-february-17/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:00:30 +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=10318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Drug abuse among young women and girls in Kashmir is on the rise, but there actually is no addiction treatment program in the Valley that will actually admit female drug users. They are left on their own, often not returning to the consultations that are available to them. Two days before the one-year anniversary of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Girls Do It Well: MMW Responds to M.I.A.&#8217;s Latest Video</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/bad-girls-do-it-well-mmw-responds-to-m-i-a-s-latest-video/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/bad-girls-do-it-well-mmw-responds-to-m-i-a-s-latest-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music/Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bad Girls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M.I.A.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new “Bad Girls” music video by M.I.A. has been circulating over the past week or so.  For those who haven’t seen it, it&#8217;s posted below, and here’s one description from a  LA Times blog post: Set to M.I.A.’s Punjabi-laced chill-banger, “Bad Girls” is a lady gangsta fantasy but one that plays off very real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discussing LGBTQ Issues in Islam: Shifts, or More of the Same?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBTQ Muslims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Media coverage of LGTBQ issues in Islam is largely influenced by the political contexts in which it is discussed. LGTBQ Muslims are often categorized and talked about in all sorts of weird ways (as this post demonstrates). In the media, this gets expressed in different ways. Sometimes, coverage focuses on the theological debates surrounding homosexuality. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South African Muslimahs Speak about Headscarves at Airports</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/south-african-muslimahs-speak-about-headscarves-at-airports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/south-african-muslimahs-speak-about-headscarves-at-airports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>safiyyah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airport security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Headscarves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South African Muslims]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10321</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the Christmas and New Year season, Quraysha Ismail Sooliman, South African Muslimah scholar and lecturer in Political Studies at the University of Pretoria, was on her way out of the country with her family. At Oliver Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, she and her daughters were stopped at passport control, and one of her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Interrupting” the Location of Discourses Regarding Muslim Women</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/%e2%80%9cinterrupting%e2%80%9d-the-location-of-discourses-regarding-muslim-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/%e2%80%9cinterrupting%e2%80%9d-the-location-of-discourses-regarding-muslim-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ameena Matthews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Interrupters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Azra reviewed this film for MMW back in August. In light of a recent appearance on The Colbert Report, heightened press, and an anticipated television premiere tomorrow night on PBS, we are taking a closer look at one of the film’s stars, Ameena Matthews. The South Side of Chicago, infamous for its crime infestation, history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Links &#124; February 10, 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/friday-links-february-10/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/friday-links-february-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anneke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Friday Links]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[February 6 is the International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM/C (Female Genital Mutilation/Circumcision); while this is not an &#8220;Islamic&#8221; practice per definition, it affects the lives of many Muslim women and girls around the world. The UN published a report on this day that almost 2,000 African communities banned the practice in 2011. Kenyan MP and FGM survivor Sophia Abdi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Love, InshAllah</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/book-review-love-inshallah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/02/book-review-love-inshallah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>merium</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books/Magazines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love InshAllah]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/?p=10292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I wasted years because I didn&#8217;t think I fit into their conception of Islam or God. And I don&#8217;t. But God is greater than all that. There are as many ways to Him as there are people on the planet.&#8221; (Ayesha Mattu, &#8220;The Opening,&#8221; p. 54) For some writers, Love InshAllah is about reconciling their [...]]]></description>
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