Friday Links — September 3, 2010

• ILLUME highlights the “Wrapping for Literacy” campaign for Senegalese girls.

• Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, an Indian organization, recently completed a survey on the aspirations of Muslim women. They want to “study, work, explore the world.”

• Bureaucracy in the West Bank is hindering Palestinian women’s progress.

• CNN profiles female Omani entrepreneurs.

• Six Saudi sisters are likely to file a lawsuit against their father for not allowing them to get married.

• Libya’s new nationality law grants women married to foreign spouses the right to pass their own nationality to their children.

• ILLUME profiles fashion designer Samira Atash.

• Carla Bruni doesn’t want Sakineh Ashtiani to be stoned, and so an Iranian newspaper calls her prostitute. Uh…

• Saudi Gazette reviews Na’ima B. Roberts’ book From My Sisters’ Lips.

• Watford Muslim Women’s organization raises £11,500 for Pakistan floods.

• On the latest hijab styles from the Gulf.

• John Esposito writes about Muslim women’s rights in predominately Muslim countries.

• Quick! Go get your surprised face! Abercrombie & Fitch is being sued over a hijab…again!

• Saudi Arabia has banned Moroccan women of a certain age from the umra pilgrimage.

• Newsweek profiles great female artists in Pakistan.

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