Muslimah Media Watch
- The BBC looks at the women who clear Sudanesse minefields.
- The New York Times tells the story of Assiya Rafiq, may Allah give her justice. Mukhtar Mai is helping her in her fight.
- South Africa’s Muslim Marriage bill is under threat.
- Iran’s silly ban on Golshifteh Farahani’s movies has been lifted.
- Muslim women in Ghana attend a two-day workshop on the importance of blending religious and secular education for their children.
- Female Saudi students in Boston, Mass., take part in educating locals about their country, culture, and religion.
- Tarek Fatah’s views on honor killing in light of the suspected recent honor killing of three girls and their mother. The National Post examines honor killings in Canada, while The Gazette offers another side.
- The Judicial Council of Georgia will now allow headscarves within the state’s courtrooms.
- Female Afghan rights activsts call for more aid, less war.
- The Wall Street Journal takes a look at Lebanon’s female taxis.
- The Hamas government may require female lawyers to wear a headscarf while in court. More from Al Arabiya.
- The results of IslamOnline’s poll asking female readers whether they would remove their hijab.
- The Associated Press highlights Beirut as a fashion capital.
- Middle East Online examines how Muslim women are using mosques to reclaim their rights.
- Last week, the WISE conference was held in Kuala Lumpur. You can read about it here, here, here, here, and here.
- Walid al-Houri compares the deaths of Neda and Marwa.
- More on the tragic deaths of three women and their mother from the CBC and the Globe and Mail.
- epiphanies introduces a wonderful new project for Swedish Muslim girls.
- On Farah Pandith’s U.S. appointment as a Special Representative to Muslim Communities.
- On Turkish women in the news media.
- The chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir tendered his resignation Tuesday after he was accused of being involved in a sex trafficking ring.
- Police in England are equipping female officers with headscarves to wear when they enter mosques. More from TimesOnline and Bristol News.
- How Pashtoon Azfar is helping women and children in Afghanistan.
- The first session of Nigeria’s Al-hababiyah women’s forum focused on modesty.
- Afghanistan’s Malalai Joya speaks with Johann Hari about her fight for women.
- In Egypt, dispute are arising over new legislation, which sets quotas for female parliament members.
- The wife of a North Carolina terrorism suspect is subjected to an incredibly cruel ruse. May Allah give her and her family justice.
- Reuters reports that only 367 women in France wear the “full veil” or niqab.
- The case of Lubna Al-Hussein, who was charged for wearing trousers, began Wednesday. More from The New York Times.
- The regional coordinator of the Madura Ulema Association in Bangkalan, Indonesia supports a proposed bylaw that would require female students to wear Islamic veils.
- A U.S. court has ruled that Aafia Siddiqui is fit to stand trial.
- A Dutch court has dissolved the employment agreement between a Muslim woman and a hospital, who fired her because she refused to bare her arms under her medical scrubs.
- Nuseiba discusses the burqa ban.
- Muslim women in Uganda petition Parliament to convene a special session to address recent ritual murders.
- A woman was brutally murdered by her father in Gaza. May Allah give her peace and justice.
- Denmark will not allow headscarves in the military.
- The minefield of marriage matchmaking in the Pakistani diapora in Britain.
- A Palestinian television show aired a re-enactment of a mother preparing for a suicide bombing, and has touched off controversy.
- Shadi Sadr has been released from prison. More from Women’s eNews.
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