Posts Tagged ‘BBC’

• Score One for the BBC!

  April 29th, 2009 A couple of weeks of ago, the BBC featured a story on Kurdish women football teams. Two weeks...

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• The Hole Story: Sexual Abuse in a “Strict Muslim” Household

  April 2nd, 2009 “Sexual Abuse in Islamic Society” is the title of a recently published BBC article.* Right away, I knew...

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• Hard Times in Gaza: the BBC looks at Domestic Violence in Gaza Strip

  April 1st, 2009 Krista recently did an analysis of a BBC profile of Egyptian women’s participation in mosques and saw the...

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• News We Can Use: the BBC’s Look at Gender and Class in Egyptian Mosques

  March 17th, 2009 A recent BBC News article has provided an astonishing suggestion that, far from being the monolithic oppressed group...

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• From the Outside Looking In: What Does Not Need Reporting

  January 27th, 2009 * Asian and South Asian will be used interchangeably to refer to those of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, etc.,...

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• Single Moroccan Female: Single Mothers in Morocco

  January 14th, 2009 Single Muslim mothers must be the new “it” topic for the Western media. There has been a lot...

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• Kariman Hamzah: Giving us a Woman’s Interpretation of the Qur’an

  December 31st, 2008 In this past week’s Friday links, Fatemeh mentioned that Al-Azhar University had for the first time approved a...

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• Iran unveils new car for women

  November 26th, 2008 As soon as I saw the headline, I have to admit I was thinking “huh?” and “what!” I’m...

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• The Struggle to Wear Hijab on Egyptian TV

  November 5th, 2008 Ghada El-Tawil (pictured below) is an Egyptian anchorwoman who just recently returned to television. Six years ago, she...

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