• MuslimMatters highlights Muslim women who are trying to have it all–and balance it all.

• A Muslim woman who was fired for not wearing a headscarf by her boss in the U.K. has been awarded over £13,500 for wrongful dismissal.

• The Hindu interviews Shelina Zahra Janmohamed on her work as an author.

• The New York Times profiles Nihad Alaeddin, a legendary Syrian actress.

• Hajia Marie Issaka, Midwife of the Bongo Health Centre and a member of the Federation of Muslim women in Ghana has been named Midwife Champion of the year and the best Midwife by the United Nations Population Fund.

• One Saudi Arabian woman shares her experience studying in the U.S.

• Three Tajik schoolgirls have threatened suicide over Tajikistan’s ban on headscarves. More here.

• The Los Angeles Times profiles Marwa Atik, the designer behind a new line of scarves.

• The Center for American Progress interviews AltMuslimah Editor Asma Uddin about gender and Islam.

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• emel discusses the differences between the French and Syrian niqab bans. More on the French niqab ban from The American Muslim.

• Sakineh Ashtiani’s son begs for a global ban on stoning. The Australian has the latest on her case.

• Tehran hospital fires nurses for “improper Islamic covering.”

• A planned kite-flying in support of Afghan women’s rights was hijacked by local police.

• On the women in Malaysia’s fiscal industry. More from Reuters.

• A psychological exam was ordered for an Indianapolis woman charged in the deaths of two young children. May Allah give them peace and justice.

• Disneyland has agreed to allow an intern to wear a company-designed head covering at work. More from the LAist and the Herald Sun.

• Women in Chechnya are under pressure to adopt Islamic dress, according to human rights activists.

• First Islamic fashion store in Calcutta draws crowds.

• You are never going to believe this! A professor finds that women who wear headscarves “face discrimination.”

• Speaking of: A New York ferry employee has been suspended after telling two Muslim women to take off some of their religious attire.

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• Tajik women who dress in hijab and niqab face pressure from authorities.

• Hijab revival in the Maghreb region: fashion, religion or strategy?

• In Mangalore, India, allowing Muslim women to offer prayers inside the Noor Masjid in Hampanakatta got ugly.

• Our guest post about Marie Claire is featured in Mother Jones.

• In the Netherlands, the National Ombudsman has ruled that Muslim women who are arrested and required to remove their headscarves when they are detained in a cell should not be confronted by male police officers.

• Salon looks at Australia’s own “burqa battle.” Australian women hold a rally condemning the burqa ban. More here.

• Female doctors leaving their practices to get married is having a serious effect on Pakistan’s doctor availability.

• In Kitchener, Canada, a local women’s group is organizing a series of workshops.

• In Malappuram, India, The Muslim League will enforce a code of conduct for its female candidates contesting in the local body elections.

• A Muslim women’s group in Australia is fighting against another ban…on bikinis!

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