Friday Links — September 3, 2010

• ILLUME highlights the “Wrapping for Literacy” campaign for Senegalese girls.

• Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, an Indian organization, recently completed a survey on the aspirations of Muslim women. They want to “study, work, explore the world.”

• Bureaucracy in the West Bank is hindering Palestinian women’s progress.

• CNN profiles female Omani entrepreneurs.

• Six Saudi sisters are likely to file a lawsuit against their father for not allowing them to get married.

• Libya’s new nationality law grants women married to foreign spouses the right to pass their own nationality to their children.

• ILLUME profiles fashion designer Samira Atash.

• Carla Bruni doesn’t want Sakineh Ashtiani to be stoned, and so an Iranian newspaper calls her prostitute. Uh…

• Saudi Gazette reviews Na’ima B. Roberts’ book From My Sisters’ Lips.

• Watford Muslim Women’s organization raises £11,500 for Pakistan floods.

• On the latest hijab styles from the Gulf.

• John Esposito writes about Muslim women’s rights in predominately Muslim countries.

• Quick! Go get your surprised face! Abercrombie & Fitch is being sued over a hijab…again!

• Saudi Arabia has banned Moroccan women of a certain age from the umra pilgrimage.

• Newsweek profiles great female artists in Pakistan.

• How women adapt to Ramadan in Tanzania.

• Blood tests have confirmed that a mysterious series of cases of mass sickness at girls’ schools across the country over the last two years were caused by a powerful poison gas. May Allah keep them and give them justice.

• Hey! I wrote an article! For CNN! About media obsession with Muslim women’s appearances.

• A Taiwanese garment factory owner was sentenced to six months in jail for forcing three Muslim women on her staff to eat pork.

• In Nigeria, Islamic officials are debating about niqab.

• More on the Disneyland headscarf fiasco.

• ILLUME profiles Afghanistan’s Women’s National Boxing Team and the increasing role of women in Youth Olympics.

• The Norwegian Equality Tribunal ruled a ban on Norwegian female police officers wearing Islamic headscarves is illegal. More from The Sydney Morning Herald.

• Because many salons in the Gulf have male hairdressers, some women avoid the salon during Ramadan.

• At Salon, Judy Mandelbaum looks at how the Pakistan floods are affecting women.

• The lives of four Arab-Israeli women spanning three generations against the backdrop of conflict are at the center of Miral, a film based on Rula Jebreal’s book.

• “Headscarf and the Angry Bitch” is the best name of a play ever.

• An Australian Muslim woman who sought permission to keep her face and head covered while she gives evidence at an upcoming trial was told by a judge she would have to remove her veil.

• CNN interviews Tayyibah Taylor about Azizah magazine.

• Bab Rizq Jameel has launched an employment center for women in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Related: another store in Saudi Arabia has started employing female cashiers.

• An interesting road to economic empowerment: In a Turkish city, men get salary incentives or penalties for how they treat their female family members.

• The bodies of five male volunteers working for a female MP have been found riddled with bullets in western Afghanistan. May Allah give them peace and justice.

• Women rights activists in Jordan are trying to overturn a legal clause which allows girls as young as 15 to be married off.

• An Israeli soldier who murdered a Palestinian girl has been acquitted. May Allah give her justice.

• The Global Post examines transsexual brothels in Turkey.

• Egypt cracks down on female genital mutilations.

• A Kurdish community in Turkey launches an LGBT magazine.

If we’ve missed any news stories about Muslim women from this week, feel free to post links in the comments!