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	<title>Muslimah Media Watch &#187; Libya</title>
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	<description>Looking at Muslim women in the media and pop culture</description>
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		<title>The Libyan Woman&#8217;s New Libya</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/11/the-libyan-womans-new-libya/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Febryary 17 revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libyan women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece was written by a Guest Contributor, Summar Shammakhi. The interim Libyan leader, Mustapha Abdul Jalil declared Libya liberated on the 23rd October. The content of his twenty or so minute speech was a tribute to the February 17 revolution. He thanked all the brave men and women, all the martyrs, all the injured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Libya&#8217;s Girl Executioners and Gun-Brandishing Newscasters</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/09/girl-executioners-and-gun-brandishing-newscasters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/09/girl-executioners-and-gun-brandishing-newscasters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tasnim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hala Misrati]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huda Ben Amer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libyan women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nisreen Mansour Al Forgani]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://muslimahmediawatch.org/?p=8733</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nisreen Mansour al Forgani, centre, with fellow Gaddafi female militia members. She is now under armed rebel guard in a Tripoli hospital. Picture: AFP Gender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war, as we see male political and military leaders taking the most visible roles in armed conflicts, promoting the tendency to see the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updates: Amina Abdullah and Eman al-Obeidi</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/06/updates-amina-abdullah-and-eman-al-obeidi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/06/updates-amina-abdullah-and-eman-al-obeidi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amina Abdullah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amina Abdullah Arraf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amina Arraf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eman Al Obeidi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Girl in Damascus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iman al-Obeidi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two important updates on stories that we have covered over the past couple months! First, Sara Yasin wrote recently about a blog called &#8220;A Gay Girl in Damascus,&#8221; where Syrian-American blogger Amina Abdullah Arraf has been writing about the revolution in Syria.  Amina Abdullah Arraf was allegedly abducted on June 6, and has not been heard from.  Many news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Symbol of Eman al-Obeidi</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/04/the-symbol-of-eman-al-obeidi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/04/the-symbol-of-eman-al-obeidi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tasnim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eman Al Obeidi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eman al Obeidy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libyan women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Violence against women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://muslimahmediawatch.org/?p=7946</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 26, Eman al-Obeidi burst into the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli and told reporters that fifteen of Gaddafi&#8217;s militiamen had detained her for two days and raped her. She named one of them as the son of a high-ranking official, and pleaded for her friends, who she said were still held captive. After a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Yusra Tekbali on Libya</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/03/an-interview-with-yusra-tekbali/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/03/an-interview-with-yusra-tekbali/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>yusra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feb17]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libyan women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revolution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://muslimahmediawatch.org/?p=7900</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MMW Contributor Yusra Tekbali was in Libya during the outbreak of the February 17 Revolution. She was evacuated to Malta, and now speaks to us from The United Arab Emirates, where she is attending Insight Dubai, a conference on Muslim Women’s issues sponsored by Dubai Women’s College. Krista and Azra interview her about her experiences. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Libyamazons&#8221; and the Libyan Uprising</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/03/libyamazons-and-the-libyan-uprising/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2011/03/libyamazons-and-the-libyan-uprising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tasnim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://muslimahmediawatch.org/?p=7831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Moammar Gaddafi&#8217;s outlandish behavior has long been a gift to comedians. Making fun of the Colonel clearly does not require much effort: all the news channel Al Arabiya had to do for their segment Gharaib Al Gaddafi (Gaddafi&#8217;s Oddities) was put together a montage of clips of the Brother Leader and his fern fly-swatter. One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desert Romance: Exoticization and Interfaith Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2010/04/desert-romance-exoticization-and-interfaith-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2010/04/desert-romance-exoticization-and-interfaith-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tasnim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books/Magazines]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[interfaith marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I got married secretly in a mosque,&#8221; says Elisabeth Elhazza. Her words are the title of an article in Tara, a Swedish women&#8217;s magazine, which gives an account of Elisabeth’s marriage to &#8220;seven years younger Khairi Elhazza from Libya,&#8221; how he proposed, and how &#8220;Elisabeth said yes without hesitation and stepped into what was, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The media&#8217;s surface-level fixation on Libya&#8217;s female bodyguards</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2008/12/the-medias-surface-level-fixation-on-libyas-female-bodyguards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2008/12/the-medias-surface-level-fixation-on-libyas-female-bodyguards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muslimah Media Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bodyguards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://muslimahmediawatch.org/?p=2198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first thing anyone, male or female, Arab or not ever says to me when they find out I’m Libyan is, “Wow, I’ve never met a Libyan before.” The follow-up question almost always involves a snide comment about Libya’s female bodyguards. These lovely ladies, trained in combat, accompany Colonel Qaddafi, Libya&#8217;s head of state, everywhere [...]]]></description>
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