Past Posts

• Jumping on the Niqab Ban(dwagon)

  October 19th, 2009 Not to be outdone by Egypt’s Shaykh Tantawi, the Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC) released a statement two weeks...

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• Friday Links — October 16, 2009

  October 16th, 2009 Everybody freaks out when Dalia Mogahed says that “Shari’ah law is misunderstood.” A controversial program finds husbands for...

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• Those Who Live in Glass Houses: Hamid Rahmanian’s The Glass House

  October 15th, 2009 The Glass House, directed by Hamid Rahmanian, is a documentary of the lives of a group of young...

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• Is Harassment Hilarious? Nile Comedy TV Thinks so

  October 14th, 2009 There’s a new government-sponsored comedy channel in Egypt, Nile Comedy TV, which has created a humorous series of...

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• Under Tantawi’s Niqab is a Can of Worms

  October 13th, 2009 As Muslims, we are asked about the details of our personal lives, and our relationship to what happens...

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• Questioning the Veil, Questioning the Questioner

  October 12th, 2009 Today we witness postcolonial Orientalism coming to grips with its obsession with the hijab. While the white French...

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• Nominations for the Sixth Annual Brass Crescent Awards Open Now

  October 9th, 2009 Salam waleykum, readers. The sixth annual Brass Cresent blog awards are here! The last two years we’ve received...

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• Friday Links — October 9, 2009

  October 9th, 2009 Women in Lebanon are campaigning to take domestic violence cases out of religious courts. Diana El-Jeiroudi discusses her...

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