- Facebook and other social networking sites have increased Egyptian women’s political activism.
- A girl in Swat Valley shares her story with the BBC.
- The U.N. finds that few nations are truly serious about stopping sex trafficking.
- Gyms for women are doing a world of good in Saudi Arabia, but are still in danger of government shutdowns.
- The Guardian asks whether Iran’s next president will be female.
- The LA Times reports on the The Stoning of Soraya M.’s reception at the Cannes Film Festival.
- Moroccan “mourchidates” will visit the U.S. this week as a part of an interfaith dialogue aimed at women’s improvement, during which they find they have much in common with Jewish women.
- On the veil debate in Canada.
- AltMuslimah reviews Mother of the Believers.
- Experts gathered in Riyadh last Saturday to discuss abuse of women and children. Princess Adela bint Abdullah lends her support, and the group seeks a fatwa against using religion to justify abuse.
- epiphanies discusses why women watch Bab el Hara.
- Two men and two women were murdered in Pakistan; the families of the women refused to claim their bodies. May Allah give them all peace and justice.
- Four Kuwaiti women won seats in the country’s parliament! More from the Telegraph and the BBC. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is also excited. And here’s a clip about the blogosphere’s reaction.
- A Saudi women takes matters into her own hands.
- More than half of women in the Arab world who own companies do not take part in their management.
- A series of women-only hotels are planned for the Saudi Arabian market.
- Bitch Magazine covers Turkey’s first mosque designed by women.
- Emirati women need more local role models, say Professor Fatima al Sayegh.
- On the female players of Jeddah United.
- Roxana Saberi has left Iran.
- Craig and Marc Kielberger discuss their visit to Saudi Arabia’s volunteerism conference.
- Women’s eNews examines Ayse Onal’s work with men who have committed honor killings in parts one and two.
- GOATMILK’s “Muslims Talking Sex” series features a discussion of teen dating by Mohja Kahf and more thoughts on sexual double standards by Hesham Hassaballa.
- Nuseiba’s third part in a series about Orientalism.
- According to Payvand News, 80% of divorce petitions in Iran are filed by women. Via ifeminists.
- More coverage on the Muslim Women Making Music tour.
- Common Ground News Service discusses Muslim women in Europe.
- Zainah Anwar talks about what happens to children of inter-religious marriages in a divorce.
- A Kuwaiti MP insists that a female MP wear a headscarf while in parliament.
- The latest on the Muslim Marriage Bill in South Africa. More here.
- Dr. Zahra Rahnavard brings the awesome on her husband’s campaign trail, calling for more freedoms for Iranian women.
- A Saudi Arabian appeals court refuses to ratify the verdict given to the 75-year-old woman who was accused of “khulwa” for being along with two younger men delivering her bread.
- A 9-year-old girl’s family lost an appeal to waive mixed gender swimming classes. But she has been allowed a burqini.
- bitch magazine covers the lebanese election posters, too.
- Islam in Europe looks at Saudi NGOs’ development of Bulgarian Muslim gender identities.
- Shahrazad discusses women in Iranian elections.
- Iranian women and Turkish women have a lot in common.
- A 75-year-old Saudi woman is involved in a car crash; it’s then discovered that she’s been driving in the kingdom for over 40 years because she has no living male relatives.
- Riazatt Butt interviews the designer behind Elenany, a new Muslim women’s clothing line.
- Female journalists in Pakistan and Afghanistan face huge challenges.
- Some people are pretty open about their dislike for women’s-only gyms.
- Though the number of Indonesia’s female lawmakers is growing, it doesn’t necessarily mean anything for women’s rights in the country.
- The house of Rubina Ali, one of the child stars of Slumdog Millionaire, has been demolished.
- The Peninsula discusses Islamic feminism. And I discuss Muslim feminists for Double X.
- Several Muslim women are among those who were awarded the Asian Women of Achievement Awards.
- An Egyptian businessman has been sentenced to death for the murder of Suzanne Tamim. via epiphanies.
Tags: Muslim women, News
Ugh! It’s just so infuriating to read Unilever’s justifications for peddling its racist products everywhere! And I hate that even here in the Arab world, women think “white is right”! I wonder if it would comfort them to know that in America they would be considered “white” by the US Census survey/sarcasm! And even in Al-Sham they feel they’re not white enough?? I thought Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine were the countries with the lightest skinned Arabs! Just so terrible all around!
Funny you mentioned facebook, because in Indonesia some people think it “could encourage illicit sex”
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/05/21/indonesian-clerics-want-rules-facebook.html
And I don’t know if you picked the title for the Double X piece, but “Feminists Don’t Understand Muslim Women” suggests to me that Muslim women and feminists are mutually exclusive. Which you go on to explain in the article is not always the case.
@iao: I did not pick the title; my qualms with the title are the same as yours. :)