Salam waleykum, readers!
Hot on the heels of our honorable mention for Best Group Blog at the Brass Crescent Awards, we’ve been nominated for the 2008 Weblog Awards! Thanks to those of you who tipped us off.
We’ve been nominated for Best Middle East/Africa blog! Oddly enough, we weren’t nominated for Best Religion Blog. Next year, enshallah!
Voting begins today! You can show us some love here.
Congrats! That’s awesome.
Your blog isn’t a religion blog, that’s probably why you weren’t voted. (unless you were being sarcastic)
Thanks!
While we don’t operate the same way that other religion blogs do, our central focus is a religious group of women and the media representation of said group. I think it would have made more sense to be under that category than this one, especially since only a handful of us are of Middle Eastern descent and we don’t focus solely on Middle Eastern issues.
Middle East/Africa? *scratching head* That doesn’t make sense to me, but hey, we were nominated :) even if the nomination hints at ignorance :P
Ahh, Sobia says the thought that was floating in my head. I’m glad we got a nod but I am wondering how we ended up in the Middle East/Africa category.
Salaam Alaikum,
Mabrouk on the nominations!
Have you looked at the full list? Michelle Malkin and LGF have also been nominated (but not in your category, obviously), so it’s a pretty varied bunch.
Yeah that’s true Fatemeh. The Middle East one doesn’t exactly make sense. Perhaps it’s the coverage of that region that’s earned the reward? Not sure how it works. As for religion blogs, I think that’s more about actually tackling religious issues, which most bloggers on here don’t do. They’re more political in their issues, like Nuseiba.
Yeah, this is great and all to be recognised (congrats everyone!), but I do agree that it’s pretty problematic to categorise us as a Middle East/Africa blog, when all but one of us are based in North America, and many of the stories we cover are unrelated to those regions. It’s nice that they think we’re a good blog, but the assumption that “Muslim” automatically means “Middle Eastern” kinda illustrates some of the misrepresentations that led MMW to exist in the first place!
Anyway, alhamdulillah, it’s good that we were nominated, and maybe this will lead more people to read our blog :)
i’m resisting the urge to snark about LGF’s representing the best of the conservative blogosphere …
also, i definitely agree re “Middle Eastern/African” being problematic