- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- Syria has removed a law that limits sentences on men convicted of honor killing.
- 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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