Posts Tagged ‘U.A.E.’

• Female Muftis Aren’t Making Headlines. What a Surprise.

  November 23rd, 2009 This was written by Sara Elghobashy and originally published at the elan blog. Whenever a story breaks that...

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• Common Ground: Sexist Ramadan “Mistakes”

  August 25th, 2009 For many of us, the last few weeks before the start of Ramadan mark a time to prepare...

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• The Emirates Fights Sexism by Exploiting Class-Based Oppression

  July 22nd, 2009 Fatemeh already pointed out the obviousness of the title in last week’s Friday Links, but Hamida Ghafour’s article...

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• Fatwa Frenzy: Skewing the Education Fatwa Issue

  May 27th, 2009 The right to an education is one of the most basic rights that any person can have. Yet...

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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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• Arab Women Leadership Forum a good act to follow

  January 19th, 2009 Over 500 Arab women participated in the first ever Arab Women Leadership Forum, held in The United Arab...

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• Fly Girls: the NYT’s essentialist profile of Emirati flight attendants

  December 23rd, 2008 MMW would like to thank Thabet for the tip! Katherine Zopf’s Sunday article in The New York Times...

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