Friday Links — November 20, 2009

• Lebanon has appointed Raya Haffar Hussein as the country’s finance minister.

• Women’s eNews covers the politics surrounding the burqa and niqab in Canada.

• Clandestine same-sex marriages are organized in Kuwait.

• Turkish and Kurdish mothers join together for peace.

• The Faster Times interviews Ghada Karmi.

• Philly.com reviews The Glass House.

• Aden, Yemen, will host a conference on science and women next month.

• The British Council has partnered with the Qatari Businesswomen Forum to continue the Springboard program, which organizes training and workshops for Qatari businesswomen. The program is also finding success with Yemeni women.

• Iranian First Lady Azam Farahi speaks out for the women of Palestine.
  

• The New York Times reports on Afghan mullah’s education on birth control.

• A 20-year-old woman was stoned to death in Somalia because she was accused of committing adultery. May Allah give her peace and justice.

• Muslim Reverie speaks frankly about ending gender segragation in mosques.

• Jezebel gives a rundown of Frontline’s‘ “A Death in Tehran”. Meanwhile, there is a campaign to make Neda Agha Soltan Time’s “Woman of the Year”.

• The Washington Post highlights a teenage Muslim girl in Virginia who’s decided to begin wearing a headscarf.

• A politician in Landskrona, Sweden, has moved to limit “immigrant” (i.e., “brown Muslim people”) weddings to one per month.

• truthout profiles Shirin Ebadi and Iranian women’s struggle for democracy.

• elan magazine profiles Fatemeh!

• The Netherlands will soon only recognize marriages if the couple are both 18 or older. This rule will be enforced also for recognizing foreign marriage and for all foreigners who marry in the Netherlands.

• The Times Record News reports on what Lubna al-Hussein’s been up to lady.

• Common Ground News follows the progress of women in the Arab world.

• Aminatou Haidar, a Western Saharan activist on hunger strike, has been summoned to court.

• The Southtown Star reports that a woman has been charged with a hate crime after she pulled off Amal Abusumayah’s headscarf in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings.

• The Feminist School updates us on female activists still in custody in Iran.

• Haifa Webhe says she’s sorry for her racist song lyrics.

• CNN interviews an Indonesian woman sold into sex slavery in Saudi Arabia. May Allah give her justice.

• The Jakarta Post profiles Dr. Amina Wadud.

Did we miss something in this week’s news of Muslim women? Feel free to post news links in the comments!