Archive for January, 2010
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Introducing Nicole
January 29th, 2010Editor’s Note: Salam waleykum, readers! I’m traveling this week, and haven’t had much access to internet (you’ve probably noticed if...
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Define Yourself: Discussions of Women, Feminism, and the Arab World
January 28th, 2010A recent Gulf News article entitled “Feminism in the Arab World” aims to give a picture of, well,...
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Driving Me Crazy: The BBC’s Muslim Driving School
January 27th, 2010The BBC has is airing a six-episode television series, called Muslim Driving School, about Muslim women who are...
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The Poor White Women: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on White Female Converts
January 26th, 2010Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is Muslim. In her articles she often likes to tell you this in the first sentence...
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Newsweek Turns a Widow into a Terrorist Mastermind
January 25th, 2010Christopher Dickey’s analysis of an interview with Defne Bayrak (pictured below), the wife of the Jordanian suicide bomber...
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Friday Links — January 22, 2010
January 22nd, 2010Salam alaikum, readers! I’ve got quite a lot on my plate this week, so I’m afraid I’m going...
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Tahmena Bokhari: A Study in (How We Talk About) Contradictions
January 21st, 2010Tahmena Bokhari, a feminist, Muslim, Canadian, social worker, and educator, was recently crowned Mrs. Pakistan 2010 (not to...
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From Bikinis to Burkas: How to Write Another Clichéd Tell-All Exposé
January 20th, 2010It’s hard not to judge a book by its cover, or in this case, an article by its...
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Naked Ambition: Airport Body Scanners Only Offensive to Muslim Women?
January 19th, 2010Earlier this month, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a gradual introduction of body scanners into U.K....
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Judging An Emcee By Her Cover
January 18th, 2010This was written by Mandy van Deven and originally appeared at Bitch magazine. Since her 2007 album Dans...
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