Muslimah Media Watch
- Mukhtaran Mai’s appeals against her rapists have been struck down by a Pakistani court.
- Don’t miss the Online Conference of Islamic Feminism!
- The Chairman of the Azerbaijani State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs believes several families force their children to wear the hijab.
- Common Ground News Service looks at currents of change for women in Saudi Arabia.
- NPR profiles several American Muslim women who have removed their headscarves.
- Zainab Al-Khawaja has ended her hunger strike in order to continue her fight for justice in Bahrain.
- indiewire interviews Zeina Durra and Elodie Bouchez, the women behind a new film.
- Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has provoked a fresh wave of anger from women by condemning mixed-sex protests as illegal under Sharia law. Women proved him wrong by protesting.
- A 16-year-old girl police assume ran away from her parents because she was afraid of a forced marriage has been found safe.
- A group of schoolgirls attacked a British Muslim woman and attempted to remove her headscarf. May Allah give her justice.
- Pink hijabs to raise awareness of breast cancer, purple hijabs to raise awareness of domestic violence.
- The Bradford Muslim Women’s Council (BMWC) and the Islamic Society of Britain have put together the first “Daughters of Eve” conference.
- The Wall Street Journal profiles documentary filmmaker Norhayati Kaprawi and her newest film.
- Farzana Hassan’s lecture at the University of British Columbia provoked outcry from the university’s Muslim Student Association because Hassan is pro-burqa ban.
- Speaking of the burqa ban, here are a few more reactions to it.
- Germany’s first Turkish woman poses for Playboy because she wants to be liberated. Uh…
- The boy who assaulted a classmate and attempted to remove her headscarf has been charged with a felony hate-crime.
If you see any news on Muslim women from this week that we’ve missed, feel free to leave links in the comments!
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