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Friday Links — July 3, 2009


Posted by fatemeh on 03 Jul 2009 / 0 Comment
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  • Afghan Shi’as rallied for the passing of the women’s law in Kabul.
  • A widow and several other men and women in Bangladesh were whipped according to a women and children repression prevention act.
  • The BBC highlights two sisters who design couture abayas in Dubai. More here. Via Hijab Style.
  • A Moroccan woman is Spain’s first Swine flu death. Via Islam in Europe.
  • A statement from members of the women’s movement in Iran.
  • Bahrain offers women no protection from marital rape.
  • Muslim workers in the Philippine Department of Heath are allowed to wear headscarves. More here.
  • More reactions on Sarkozy’s Burqa Saga: Islam Online, Feministing, Dawn, The National, The Independent, Al Qaeda, NPR, The Huffington Post, Mona El Tahawy, the Washington Post, and KABOBfest.
  • On feminism and Iran’s civil unrest.
  • Sumbul Ali-Karamali writes about the negative images of Muslim women brought on by recent media.
  • Saudi women welcome Farah Pandith as the U.S. appointment to “Special Representative to Muslim Communities.”
  • On sexual harassment in Egypt.
  • Bloomberg.com writes about Iranian women and business.
  • After two schools ban headscarves in Antwerp, Belgium, Muslims protest.
  • A group of Australian Muslim women are behind an animated film about Muslim women.
  • AltMuslimah launches a photo campaign.
  • Some top Western designers give the abaya a makeover.
  • Latoya Peterson writes about how Iranian women have been portrayed in the media recently.
  • A girl and three family members were murdered in Charsadda, Pakistan. May Allah give them peace and justice.
  • A divorce reminiscent of the Home Alone movies.
  • An Afghan woman’s shop defies local mores.
  • A Norwegian imam plans to publish a book showing that female genital cutting is incompatible with Islam.
  • The Indonesian presidential race is disappointing local women activists.
  • What U.S. troop withdrawal may mean for Iraqi women.
  • A CIA official has been charged with assault of an Algerian woman.
  • The story of a design studio and a Muslim women’s association.
  • On honor killing in Gaza.
  • Syria has removed a law that limits sentences on men convicted of honor killing.
  • Feministe critiques Richard Bernstein’s The East, the West, and Sex.
  • Another review of The Stoning of Soraya M.
  • epiphanies introduces us to The Khadija Project.
  • Nuseiba reviews Stolen.
  • The dentist who refused service to patients who didn’t wear headscarves faces a ban.
  • A woman was stabbed outside a courtroom in Germany. May Allah give her peace and justice.
  • Guernica magazine interviews Fatima Bhutto.
  • A Muslim women was harassed for her headscarf at Georgia State University. More here and here. We’ll have more next week.
  • Islam Online profiles Mahinur Ozdemir, the first Belgian woman to wear a headscarf in parliament.

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