Friday Links — April 10, 2009

• Even other Muslims are hating on the bus-using niqabis in Denmark. Brotherhood, huh?

• The Kipp Report outlines why Saudis are having such a difficult time with women working. Arab News examines the negative impact of the law on non-Saudi women.

• Nuseiba weighs in on why feminists need to get down with the hijab.

• More fallout from the Karzai’s legal fuckery. He says the law might change because it’s under review.

• Palestinian women take reconstruction into their own hands, literally.

• In Germany, a brother confesses to killing his sister. May Allah give her peace and justice.

• The Women’s Media Center interviews Dr. Masooda Jalal, an Afghan political leader and presidential candidate.

• Altmuslim interviews author Shelina Zahra Janmohamed about marriage and her new book.

• In the U.K., man threw an egg at a woman in a headscarf.

• Egypt’s women fight against negative societal stereotypes about spinsters.

• Hurriyet Daily News highlights the contributions of Turkish women in the Istanbul’s annual International Film Festival.

• Nuseiba touches on women and culture, and why “culture blaming” isn’t a helpful strategy in helping Muslim women.

• Elsewhere in the U.K., a mother wearing a niqab was not allowed into parent’s night at her child’s school.

• A Saudi court ordered a man to recognize that he is the father of a young girl after the girl’s mother brought her complaint to court.

• Özlem Çerçioğlu, the newly elected mayor of a city in Turkey, believes that politics needs more women. Hear, hear! And Today’s Zaman discuss how difficult local polls can be for a female candidate.

• The Washington Post reports on the difficulty that some Iraqi policewomen are having in changing viewpoints.

• Payvand News reviews The Poetry of Iranian Women, edited by Sheema Kalbasi.

• More calls from Kuwaiti lawmakers to increase women’s participation in everything.

• Saudi women are boycotting lingerie stores because of their continued attempt to employ only men.

• Mideast Youth tackles Iran’s sexual revolution.

• Turkish painter Reyyan Somuncuoğlu sets out to reinvent the Orientalist nature of female portraits of Turkish women.

• The Egyptian couple accused of “swinging” have been sentenced to several years in jail.

• A young Iraqi girl blinded by car bomb explosion may receive help from a British hospital, thanks to reader donations.

• The parents of jailed Roxana Saberi were finally able to visit her. She has been formally charged with working in the country after her credentials had expired and spying.

• A Muslim Filipina woman, who placed second in national 2008 bar examinations, hopes this shows everyone that “the ‘veiled woman’ is not repressed.”

• The Sunday Monitor discusses the hijab with students at the Islamic University in Kampala.

• The Saudi Gazette highlights Saudi mothers’ “empty nest” syndrome.

• A cartoon strip aiming to teach about the hijab comes under controversy.

• The Jeddah Film Festival and Sayidaty magazine will award Saudi women who excel in cinema.

• A female priest who announced that she is “both Christian and Muslim” has been defrocked.

• The fact that a majority of Emirati women over 30 aren’t married is seriously alarming some people in Sharjah, so they’re looking into “fixing” it.

• Feminist Review looks over Suheir Hammad’s newest book of poems.

• The Sydney Morning Herald profiles Makiz Ansari for wearing a headscarf and not getting harassed about it.

• Women’s football is kicking off in Qatar.

• Dubai will premiere a womens-only bus service this weekend.

• Nashwa Al Ruwaini earns the Feigenbaum Leadership Award.

• The Saudi Gazette examines some of the issues surrounding working mothers in Saudi Arabia.

• The Common Ground News Services discusses what the Qur’an says about women’s rights.

• Sabria Jawhar shoots down the conservative call for the removal of women from the media in Saudi Arabia. She also writes a great article about the Kingdom’s refusal to grant permission for a women’s rights organization. SNAP!

• Some Muslima Filippina women charge that wearing “standard” nursing attire is inappropriate for their beliefs.

• The National posits that education has caused a tension in women’s work and family lives.

• Pakistan’s Chief Justice makes a big show of berating officials over the video of  a girl being whipped.

• On the eve of a trial of the army soldier, who is accused of raping a 14-year-old girl and killing her and her family in Iraq with four fellow soldiers, attorneys are attacking the law that allows him to be prosecuted for alleged crimes committed overseas. Way to keep it in perspective, boys.

• Chechnya’s president tries to make a national case for polygyny.

• In response to the decision to close all independent female gyms, Saudi women are protesting and starting a campaign.

• Iqbal Tamimi writes about Gaza’s first women’s football team.

• Aid withdrawal/expulsion is hitting women and children hardest in Darfur.

• A Muslim high school student is awarded a large settlement after she sued her school district after they did nothing to stop the harassment she faced at school.

• Vogue profiles Hijab Style and has the site’s editor, Jana Kossabaiti, do some fashion reconnaissance at the Arabian Fashion World event.

• Al Arabiya reports that male officers refuse to salute female officers in Kuwait. Real classy, gentlemen. Via ProgressiveIslam.

• The way that Islamic law is doled out in Indonesia’s Aceh province has many women worried.

• AltMuslimah and Goatmilk both examine the “marriage crisis” from men’s points-of-view, following Zeba Iqbal’s take on it.

• Journalist Laila El-Haddad and her children are stranded in an Egyptian airport for days. She chronicles the entire thing on Twitter.

• A Kazakhstani woman is recently discovered to be 130 years old.

• Radio Australia interviews Marina Mahathir about Musawah.

• Most Algerian women feel alienated from the political and social processes of the country.

• A Palestinian woman trying to escape her abusive husband was stabbed to death by him as she sought shelter at her family’s home. May Allah give her peace and justice.

• A Muslim police officer in Philadelphia, Penn., has lost a court battle for the right to wear her headscarf. More here and here.

• Some Emirati couples are trying  counseling before marriage in an effort to reduce the U.A.E.’s divorce rate, which is the highest in the Arab world.

• IslamOnline takes a deeper look at the study of Europe’s Muslim women.

• G. Willow Wilson is nominated for a prestigious comic book award.

• A blind woman in Dearborn, Mich., gets a seeing-eye horse.

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