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Friday Links — August 28, 2009

Last updated on: August 29, 2009 at 12:00 am

August 29, 2009 by fatemeh

Can Faisal al Yafai asks why haven’t Arab women broken the glass ceiling?

On the popularity of plastic surgery in Saudi Arabia.

Na’ima B. Robert offers her portrait of a Muslim marriage.

Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno’s caning has been postponed for Ramadan. AltMuslim examines the situation further.

School girls in Gaza are being told to wear more conservative clothing, including headscarves.

More protests against a Mali law giving women equal marriage rights.

Killing the Buddha searches for the “new Muslim woman.”

The U.A.E will have a national football league for women by 2012!

Much ado about female ministers in Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s cabinet.

Beauty salons come back to Iraq.

The Oregonian law against religious headwear in schools prompts one man to learn more about the hijab.

An unsafe apartment building cost one woman her husband and children. May Allah give them peace and justice.

An interview with a Muslim flight attendant.

The Hindu reviews The Hour Past Midnight.

ReligionDispatches interviews Daisy Khan.

A Bahraini man won the right to have his sex change officially recognized by the courts. Via Improvisations.

Shelina Janmohamed compares the marital rights of British Muslim women and Afghan Muslim women. Via Goatmilk.

Another Muslim lawmaker in Europe comes out against the burqa–this time, France’s Fadela Amara.

Students in a Calcutta college believe that a Hindu group pushed a hijab ban on the school.

The Granada Blog writes about the “oppressed” Afghan woman.

Jezebel highlights the lives of Bangladeshi acid attack survivors.

The judge who ordered a woman to remove her headscarf in a Michigan court room will face a lawsuit for it. More from CNN, IslamOnline, and the Detroit Free Press.

On the lack of Malaysian women in politics.

Peace Through Business gives Rwandan and Afghan women business educations.

Shirin Ebadi will speak at Naropa University in Colorado.

Nesrine Malik and Asma Barlas respond to The Guardian’s (ridiculous) question: “Can Western feminism save Muslim women?“

The Turkish-Kurdish divide through women’s eyes.

A man tries to run over two Muslim women at a gas station. I am beyond words. Via Jezebel.

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