Muslimah Media Watch
- Can Faisal al Yafai asks why haven’t Arab women broken the glass ceiling?
- On the popularity of plastic surgery in Saudi Arabia.
- Na’ima B. Robert offers her portrait of a Muslim marriage.
- Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno’s caning has been postponed for Ramadan. AltMuslim examines the situation further.
- School girls in Gaza are being told to wear more conservative clothing, including headscarves.
- More protests against a Mali law giving women equal marriage rights.
- Killing the Buddha searches for the “new Muslim woman.”
- The U.A.E will have a national football league for women by 2012!
- Much ado about female ministers in Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s cabinet.
- Beauty salons come back to Iraq.
- The Oregonian law against religious headwear in schools prompts one man to learn more about the hijab.
- An unsafe apartment building cost one woman her husband and children. May Allah give them peace and justice.
- An interview with a Muslim flight attendant.
- The Hindu reviews The Hour Past Midnight.
- ReligionDispatches interviews Daisy Khan.
- A Bahraini man won the right to have his sex change officially recognized by the courts. Via Improvisations.
- Shelina Janmohamed compares the marital rights of British Muslim women and Afghan Muslim women. Via Goatmilk.
- Another Muslim lawmaker in Europe comes out against the burqa–this time, France’s Fadela Amara.
- Students in a Calcutta college believe that a Hindu group pushed a hijab ban on the school.
- The Granada Blog writes about the “oppressed” Afghan woman.
- Jezebel highlights the lives of Bangladeshi acid attack survivors.
- The judge who ordered a woman to remove her headscarf in a Michigan court room will face a lawsuit for it. More from CNN, IslamOnline, and the Detroit Free Press.
- Peace Through Business gives Rwandan and Afghan women business educations.
- Shirin Ebadi will speak at Naropa University in Colorado.
- Nesrine Malik and Asma Barlas respond to The Guardian’s (ridiculous) question: “Can Western feminism save Muslim women?“
- The Turkish-Kurdish divide through women’s eyes.
- A man tries to run over two Muslim women at a gas station. I am beyond words. Via Jezebel.
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