Muslimah Media Watch
- Saudi women participate in a black ribbon campaign to lobby against guardianship.
- Aicha Ech Channa wins the Opus Prize for helping unwed mothers despite Moroccan society’s condemnation.
- emel magazine highlights Britain’s Sure Start program and profiles a woman who volunteers for it.
- Oxford starts a scholarship in memory of Neda Agha Soltan.
- The Arab Women Organization has organized a media training session to implement an “information strategy for Arab women designed to present a true and balanced image of Arab women and their active contribution to the comprehensive and sustainable development.”
- A woman was sentenced to two years in a British prison after being found with documents relating to weapons construction.
- Muslim women in Varanasi, India condemn a fatwa against a nationalist song.
- A Philadelphia woman talks a gunman into turning himself in.
- More on Shadi Sadr’s human rights award.
- Fairuz magazine profiles Leila Ben Ali.
- The man who murdered Marwa El Sherbini has been sentenced to life in jail. Via TalkIslam. More from IslamOnline and The Guardian.
- The 2009 Global Gap Gender Report shows that Saudi women’s place in society is up, while Syrian women’s place has dropped.
- emel magazine reviews An Ode to My Sisters.
- Gaza holds a women’s film festival.
- Iraq’s first female students of the country’s police academy graduate.
- CNN talks about sex and divorce in Egypt.
- The U.A.E. intends to appoint the world’s first state-sanctioned female muftis next year. Via New Statesman.
- Brunei is sending a woman to be part of a Kaspersky Lab Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition collaboration.
- The Star profiles a sports hijab designer.
- The Organization of Islamic Conference will not interfere in Turkey’s headscarf issue.
- A Spanish high school shut down a planned protest against the fact that headscarves can be worn, but not hats.
- A Muslim women in Mehbullahpur, India, helps get ghettoized Muslim women and their families on their feet.
- Again with Sarkozy and the burqa ban!
- Muslim women in Gloucestershire, U.K. take community cycling lessons.
- A one-day conference in Pittsburg this week will look at health care issues and women’s role in Muslim families.
- Diwan profiles poet Nimah Nawwab.
- Saudi Arabia’s Justice Minister said that women are well on their way to becoming practicing lawyers in the country–representing female clients only, that is.
- According to The National, almost one third of the women who approach the emirate’s shelter for victims of domestic abuse are Emirati, but there are many more who do not come forward.
- Refugee women in the U.K. are at high risk for forced marriages.
- Barnard College and Glamour teamed up to honor the One Million Signatures Campaign.
- Women flocked to see the first female football game in the West Bank.
- emel profiles a blind Muslim woman and her guide dog.
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