Muslimah Media Watch
- A four-year old girl finds a pig’s head with an Islamophobic slur on her doorstep. Via KABOBfest.
- A woman speaks out on her experiences with sexism and racism in the British Army. Via Feministing.
- More women blowing themselves up in Iraq.
- A woman, her daughter, and several members of their family were killed in an automobile accident. May Allah grant them peace.
- Arab News examines exam-related depression for Saudi school girls.
- Students at Zanjan University in Iran protest to demand punishment for a school official who is accused of sexual harassment. Same story with more detail here.
- The Egyptian state forbids a 92-year-old man to wed a 17-year-old girl.
- I should just have this story on repeat. Because it happens every freaking summer! Iranian police arrest women for dress code violations. You can see some pictures here.
- A Chinese Muslim woman carries the Olympic torch! Barikallah!
- Sex trafficking in India.
- Sisterhood gets some more press.
- Australian groups that cater to Muslim and Christian women have been given additional funding
- Remember the Muslim woman in the U.K. who was refused employment in a hair salon because she wears a headscarf? A British court awarded her damages. Barikallah!
- Lingerie stores in Saudi Arabia provide more opportunities for sexual harassment than lingerie purchases.
- Writeous Sister Speaks shares some of her favorite photos of Muslim women around the world.
- Best-selling memoir Burned Alive, about a woman who survives an “honor killing” attempt on her life, is revealed to be a hoax. Via TalkIslam.
- One Saudi woman tries to ignore the driving ban and gets caught.
- The New York Times profiles Fadela Amara, one of the highest-ranking Muslim women in France.
- The Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz Women’s Wing pledges to hold a sit-in until judges who were fired are reinstated.
- More “Wear a Burkha For a Day” stuff.
- The charges against Aqsa Parvez’s father have been upgraded to first-degree murder.
- A deeper look at the case of Muslim women who were fired from a Minnesota, U.S. factory for refusing to wear pants.
- Women in Da’awah, a Muslim women’s group in Nigeria, plans to organize a conference in late June, aiming to stress Muslim unity among women.
- Kurdish feminist Hana Abdi is sentenced to five years in an Iranian jail for “subversive activities.”
- Andrea Useem looks at the media coverage around The Harvard Gym Shebangang and examines her own views.
- A Bahraini female-to-male transsexual won a his three-year legal battle to have his sex-change legally recognized by the courts.
- Two Muslim women who wear headscarves were barred from appearing behind Obama’s podium at a rally. Though it was organizers who ask them to move, Obama himself apologized.
- Tehran, Iran opens a park where women can wear whatever they want, because no men are allowed inside.
- A camp for girls is established in Saudi Arabia.
- The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution demanding warring nations stop using rape as a tool of war. About damn time.
- Turkish singer Bulent Ersoy is tried for dissent over remarks she made about the Turkish military.
- Qatar puts forth a law that may help protect the rights of domestic workers.
- Conservative Kuwaiti parliament members draft a bunch of misogynist laws. Via TalkIslam.
- I don’t know how I missed these, but here’s a link from altmuslim about Fatima Bhutto, niece of Benazir, writer, and poet. And Saraji Umm Zaid discusses violence against women.
- A look at Azerbaijan’s first lady, Mehriban Aliyeva.
- Inside the abodana (co-operative) for Indian Muslim women. Via Indian Muslims.
- Female Muslim artist Ghada Amer is showing her work at the Brooklyn Museum.
Also, here’s a cute video from reader Fadwa. She and her friends created this for an English project:
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