Muslimah Media Watch
- The Guardian looks at fall fashion in headscarves. Also, a slideshow on Dubai’s fashion week.
- Feminocracy discusses the recent discrimination against two Muslim women by a McDonald’s.
- The Guardian profiles Asmaa Abdol-Hamid. Via Hijab Style.
- A woman is sentenced to death for prostitution. Prostitution that her own husband forced her into. Here’s what you can do. Via Feministe.
- The U.S. News talks about an increase in female suicide bombers. So does the BBC. And the Times Online.
- An unfortunate consequence of Hamas’ anti-porn crusade is that journalists can’t access certain news outlets.
- The Turkish Daily News focuses on how the language of moral superiority hurts all women: Do uncovered women “deserve what they get”?
- In an effort to increase female employment, Saudi businessmen propose female-only industrial zones.
- Three female suicide bombers killed 25 and wounded approximately 70 in Baghdad. May Allah give peace to the victims.
- The Times Online reviews Halima Bashir’s book Tears of the Desert.
- Akbar Ahmed writes about his daughter, Amineh.
- Na’ima B. Robert writes about living as a Muslim in a British democracy.
- AKI features a film about female Iranian footballers, titled Football Under Cover (eye rolling).
- The Washington Post examines the lives of Muslim women in France.
- Aziza al-Yassin reviews The Women in Black for The Muslim News.
- Yvonne Ridley believes that Al-Qaeda suspect Aafia Siddiqui is in an Afghan prison.
- A man who severely beat his wife for rolling up her veil because of the heat was sentenced to two years, but has had most of time that suspended. WTF?!
- Saudi government departments try to work out a stalemate on rules that govern women that study abroad.
- The Indonesian Embassy in Saudi Arabia rolls out discouraging numbers of sexual assault on Indonesian maids for only the first half of 2008.
- Women in Egypt fashion a campaign similar to the Iranian One Million Signatures Campaign in hopes of changing laws that ignore sexual harassment.
- Many of Iraq’s parliament members believe that female quotas are the only solution for ensuring that women are represented.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali seeks protection from the Netherlands while living in the U.S.
- Despite a law intended to stop them, child marriages are still happening in Morocco.
- AIDS activists in South Africa protest against a call for mandatory HIV testing for Muslim couples before marriage, saying that it will further stigmatise and discriminate against those with HIV.
- A research study about Islamic divorce in North America. Via Islamify.
- Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad received an honorary doctorate from the University of London.
- The beyond-horrifying story of one Bosnian woman during the war. May Allah give her and all the other women of Bosnia peace and justice. Via Islamify.
- Women in Sweden who have been raped seek hymenoplasty . Via Islam in Europe.
- Migrant Rights discusses maid abuse in the Arabian Peninsula.
- BeliefNet and Newsweek discuss the Turkish soap opera that’s supposedly enlightening men and women across the Middle East.
- The Kuwait Times looks at housing difficulties for divorced and widowed
Kuwaiti women.
- Women in north Sinai in Egypt protest against the lengthy detention of their male relatives.
- Iranian authorities debate removing the ban on showing women without hijab for the Beijing Olympics.
- Jezebel examines headscarf fashion.
- Hatshepsut discusses another disgusting “veil yourself” advertisement.
- alternarrative ponders on sex segregation online.
- Dr. Basma Al-Mutlaq says that violence against women has “no country.” Damn right.
- Saudi Arabia’s Olympic team will appear in Beijing without any female members, but women are trying to make headway within the country’s sports systems.
- Two Iraqi-Norwegian sisters design their own line of head coverings.
- Muslims in Uganda want to include issues concerning Muslim women on a domestic relations bill that will be considered by Parliament.
- Lashings for everybody.
- Oh, the sickly sweet irony: a member of Saudi Arabia’s vice squad is arrested for having six wives. More here.
- HijabMan & Co. discuss marriage pressures for new converts. Via TalkIslam.
- Lebanese singer Suzan al-Tamim was found stabbed to death in her Dubai apartment. More here. May Allah grant her peace and justice.
- Saudi businesswomen are preparing to be voted into the board of directors of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the the first time.
- A Muslim woman punches a Christian preacher for insulting the prophet. Warning: there are some pretty nasty comments made about the prophet. Disclaimer: Violence is not acceptable, no matter how much better you feel when she punches him. Via Islamify.
- The Nation celebrates the birth anniversary of Fatima Jinnah, known as the “Mother of Pakistan.”
- Somali women in Oregon have asked for a portion of time after hours for the pool to be women-only.
- Pedestrian gives her opinion on the wives of Middle Eastern statesmen.
- The New York Times looks at the success of the The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook.
Via The New York Times: Bosnian Muslim women from Srebrencia watch watch Radovan Karadzic’s first appearance before court in The Hague. 
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