Friday Links | December 10, 2010

• Al Jazeera reports that a new Egyptian law guarantees 64 seats to female candidates, meaning a 1,500% rise in female parliamentarians.

• Remember Aisha? From the Time cover? Her father-in-law has been arrested in connection with her mutilation.

• Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has not been released from prison. We’re confused, too. Read up on what’s going on at The Guardian.

• The New York Times looks at Afghanistan’s women’s soccer team’s struggle to compete.

• Norway could face a hijab ban in schools.

• Muslims  in Ghana asked to help fight against domestic abuse.

• On Iran’s “No Divorce Day.”

• The worries of an American Muslim mom.

• A new poll shows that a majority of Afghans view women attending school and voting positively.

• The Ottawa Citizen profiles the unstoppable Wafa Dabbagh.

• In Patna, India, a poster exhibition educates about Muslim women’s rights.

• One woman’s experience with Islamic courts in Indonesia.

• Iran’s Ahmadinejad and Iran’s clerics differ in their views on women’s sports participation.

• Is hijab a choice in Egypt?

• An Orland Park, Il. man is accused of harassing two Muslim women.

• Lleida, Spain is the country’s first town to ban the niqab.

• The Philippines’ BusinessWorld gets its first female Muslim contributor.

• The F-Word examines the viewpoints of women who wear the niqab.

• The Huffington Post profiles Pakistan’s leading youth blogger.

• An interview with Little Mosque on the Prairie’s Sitara Hewitt.

If we missed any news about Muslim women this week, post a link in the comments!