Muslimah Media Watch thanks Hijabtrendz for the tip! Those of you who speak French should go check out MWM, a new magazine for Muslim women, published in France. It’s first issue is free and currently online. It seems like future issues will require a subscription, but their subscription section isn’t up yet. The magazine introduces itself by saying: Today, the Muslim woman in the media is the archetype par excellence of the woman who is oppressed and condemned to a... Read more
A proposed retail ban on hejabs causes some serious uproar, agreement, and outright refusal. In response, The Brisbane Times puts forth an “educational” article about hejab, a Muslim woman tries to explain the differences between headcoverings, and anti-discrimination groups advocate against the ban. The Queens Tribune profiles ICNA’s Temporary Housing for Women program. The Deccan Herald gives us the tale of Shah Bano. On the marriage choices Yemeni women may have to make. Organica ponders the treatment of women without... Read more
Those of you who know me well know I’m not the most modest person in the world. For those of you who don’t know me very well: I’m not the most modest person in the world. So when I tell you I’ve just spent the past couple of days feeling very, very small and tiny, you’ll know that whatever made me feel that way must have been phenomenal. Well, it wasn’t something. More like 300 someones. I was invited to... Read more
With so much of American foreign policy being focused on various Muslim countries, it is no surprise that there is a “concern” among conservatives about the issues that Muslim women face in different parts of the Muslim world. I have a wish that their concern is sincere, but when I read essays like Zeyno Baran’s recent tirade on The Huffington Post, I see my wish is futile. Zeyno Baran is a fellow at the Hudson Institute. There are so many... Read more
CBC radio’s weekly documentary program, Dispatches, recently ran a documentary by Natasha Fatah on Nia Dinata, one of Indonesia’s best known film directors. In the documentary, entitled Cinema, censorship and sex, Fatah speaks with the internationally acclaimed director about her latest film, Chants of Lotus, as well as her experiences with film making in Indonesia. The documentary begins at the national premier of Chants of Lotus at a cinema in a high-end mall in Jakarta. The film itself is, as... Read more
Over 500 Arab women participated in the first ever Arab Women Leadership Forum, held in The United Arab Emirates last Tuesday. The two-day event focused on the status of women in the Arab world, and discussed ways of increasing their social, economic and political contributions. Themed, ‘Women and Leadership: Global Trends and Local Innovations’, the forum discussed the status of women in Arab countries, focusing on ways to reduce the gender gap in the workforce. A series of panel discussions... Read more
Okay, good news first: Dr. Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and professor at Hartford Seminary, among other things, will be among those offering prayers at the National Prayer Service this Wednesday of (soon-to-be) President Barack Obama’s inauguration. Dr. Mattson will be part of a multi-faith group of prayer leaders of various Christian denominations, as well as from Jewish, Hindu and other faith traditions. I was impressed to see the number of female speakers listed,... Read more
A glowing pseudo-review of The Hijabi Monologues. Another one here. The life journey of one Lisa Nichols. Malaysia’s Secretariat on the Protection and Enhancement of Muslim Women raises money for Gaza. Yes, protesting can be fashionable. U.S. women visit the U.A.E. and give their opinion on the position of Emirati women. More here. A woman and her family face charges related to insulting Kuwait’s emir. More from The Sydney Morning Herald. The New Nation covers a conference on women and... Read more
The latest issue of Chay magazine has come out and MMW is on it. For those of you who are not familiar with Chay, it is a Pakistan based magazine dealing with issues of sexuality. MMW has covered it twice already, once before the first issue, and then again when the first issue came out. Topics in Chay’s second issue include the issue of compartmentalizing gender (No Middle Ground by Haroon Shuaib), covering an Indian human rights organization designed to... Read more
Single Muslim mothers must be the new “it” topic for the Western media. There has been a lot of coverage of Rachida Dati, the French minister of Moroccan and Algerian heritage, who just recently had a baby while still being single. Now, the BBC has done a piece on single mothers in Morocco. The story looks at the struggles that single mother face in Morocco and also looks at the efforts of a group called Feminine Solidarity Association that seeks to... Read more
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