Muslimah Media Watch
- CNN shows us Nujood’s life after her divorce.
- The Feminist School keeps us updated on imprisonments, releases, and an interview with Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani.
- Al Jazeera highlights a Lebanese citizenship case that could affect whether Lebanese women pass their citizenship to their children.
- Two police officers in Karachi have been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of three-year-old Sana. May Allah give her peace.
- Islam Online is holding a blogging competition for Ramadan. Ladies, start your keyboards!
- The National profiles editor and writer Rabina Khan.
- Cycads writes about purdah and sexual segregation.
- Natalia Antonova discusses honor violence and hymens.
- Asharq Alawsat discusses the recent Hamas decision to require schoolgirls to wear headscarves.
- Muslim Malaysian women in Thailand are taking charge in their communities.
- Uzbekistan has placed a ban on headscarves. More here.
- On the Mali marriage law. More here.
- A college principal in Kashmir has been threatened with violence if he does not enforce headscarves on female students.
- Beirut holds a conference on women and the digital future.
- RH Reality Check discusses the “war on terror” and Muslim women.
- How the French Burqa Ban has messed up French politics.
- Christian and Muslim women in Liberia finish their peace seminar.
- Turkey has began another scholastic year with a headscarf ban.
- World Peace writes about technology and gender segregation.
- Indigo Jo Blogs outlines some British feminist hawk concerns about Muslim women.
- The Jakarta Post highlights how women’s bodies are used as battlefields.
- A New Zealand woman was denied access to court because of her headscarf. More here.
- Muslim women in Orissa, India, are using traditional embroidery as economic empowerment.
- Jezebel reviews documentary Time for School 3, which follows an female Afghan student through her struggle for education.
- Nayereh Tohidi explains the roles of women in the Iranian presidential elections.
- Reuters wonders when France will receive a fatwa against forced marriages.
- An Egyptian film that highlights women’s issues gets both criticism and applause.
- In Oklahoma, white female converts are part of a huge growth in the Muslim population.
- Mukhtar Mai appears on The Today Show.
- AltMuslim weighs in on the Rifqa Bary case. More from the Orlando Sentinel.
- Lubna Hussein speaks about her impending trial.
- In Egypt, women who don’t wear a headscarf are becoming a marginalized minority.
- Women and children are being targeted in Sudan’s southern states.
- Iran has approved its first female cabinet minister since the 1979 Revolution. Politics Daily believes that this is a step backward.
- Ms. Magazine reports on Yanar Mohammed’s “Underground Railroad” for Iraqi women.
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