Muslimah Media Watch
- More on Lubna al-Hussein and the Trouser Fiasco: here, here, and resulting social issue unrest here.
- In Nigeria, Hauwa Ibrahim fights Shariah with Shariah.
- The wife of Daniel P. Boyd, who is currently charged by the U.S. in a terror plot, defends her family and denounces her treatment by U.S. marshals.
- More on France’s negligible burqa findings.
- KABOBfest follows up on the Burqa Ban.
- Nuseiba revisits the Stolen documentary.
- The Dawn gets into the Great Veil Debate.
- Zainah Anwar discusses the injustices of Lubna al-Hussein’s case and Kartika Sari Dewi Sukarno’s cases.
- G. Willow Wilson writes about the Ideal Husband at City of Brass.
- The Dawn’s slideshow on female footballers in Pakistan’s championship.
- Women in Saudi Arabia staged a rare demonstration at Taif University, alleging discriminatory admissions policies. More here.
- In Jordan, men using the niqab to commit crimes creates real problems for women who wear it.
- Reza Aslan discusses Neda Agha Soltan’s legacy.
- NPR discusses Afghan women’s participation and difficulties in upcoming elections.
- Iraqi women take it to the (wrestling) mat.
- The National interviews Sarah Elenany. Via Hijab Style.
- A Toronto mosque overflowed with mourners for a mother and her two daughters who drowned. May Allah give them peace.
- A Dutch TV show will highlight a women who wears niqab.
- Mona El Tahawy speaks about her experiences at WISE in Kuala Kumpur.
- Samana Siddiqui discusses divorce and American Muslims.
- Saudi Amber dissects the problems of Saudi’s first female minister.
- Muslim clothing company Marabo is going out of business.
- Quebec, Canada, reconsiders its ban on the hijab, among other things.
- A woman in New Jersey plans to open a shelter for Muslim women.
- On women’s job opportunities (or lack thereof) in Saudi Arabia.
- Shazia Rafi writes that girls in the Swat valley need education most of all right now.
- The daughter-in-law of Iran’s former president and current politian Rafsanjani was arrested and then released for participating in riots during Ahmadinejad’s inauguration.
- Khawla Al-Azraq recounts her stay in an Israeli prison.
- Muslim women in Britain do not report racism.
- Pakistan’s National Assembly passed a bill outlawing domestic violence.
- Ayatollah Khomeini’s granddaughter speaks out about the protesters in Iran, urging police to reveal the identities of the detainees for their families.
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