- Sweden’s Cherine Awad, one of the Halal TV hosts, may be Sweden’s first lawyer who wears a headscarf.
- Denmark has sentenced a mother for the female genital cutting of her daughters. More from the BBC. Via TalkIslam.
- Some Qatari women are insisting that clauses assuring them a separate home from their in-laws be included in their marriage contracts.
- Rime Allaf speaks on Gaza.
- Women’s rights supporters gather in Bahrain to discuss aiding survivors of domestic violence.
- A court in Pakistan has ruled that murder in order to protect a woman’s honor (i.e., self defense) is “no crime.”
- Saudi women may be driving by the end of the year. Via ProgressiveIslam.
- Turkey’s Hurriyet looks at love, women, and the cinema.
- Designer Nzinga Knight speaks with Hijabtrendz.
- The Taleban in Pakistan’ Swat valley have murdered a dancer and warned others. Via ProgressiveIslam.
- The Emirates’ Tawteen program helps girls learn skills to succeed in the business world.
- Morocco’s Union of Women’s Action holds seminars to educate Moroccans about domestic violence as the government fashions a bill to tackle the violence harder.
- Special needs couples wed in a mass marriage ceremony in Dubai.
- A Welsh Muslim woman’s savvy business skills help her juggle five children and hair salon.
- On clothing styles and hejab in Turkey.
- Male traffic officers in Bahrain will not be able to force veiled women drivers to show their face.
- The Australian cleric who has recently come under fire for his views on marital rape comes out with more astounding opinions. Via ProgressiveIslam.
- Qatari women raised money for Gaza aid.
- A bus offering information and advice about cervical cancer will tour Dubai in coming weeks to educate women about the disease.
- Pakistan’s The News states that women “in every third household” face violence.
- Female unemployment is high in Syria. More from Middle East Online.
- Women in Afghanistan still cover their heads. Duh.
- Rachida Dati has been forced to resign from Sarkozy’s government.
- Contrary to popular belief, divorce rates are not on the rise in Turkey.
- Sherry Rehman speaks out on women’s political representation in Pakistan.
- Finnish immigrants without language skills face difficulties.
- Canada extends a welcome mat to Masoda Younasy, granddaughter of Afghanistan’s last king.
- Dekha Ibrahim Abdi shares her history and her role as peacemaker.
- Menassat profiles Salwa al Neimi’s new book, Proof of Honey.
- Dubai’s only women’s shelter has started a campaign against domestic violence, using a makeup case.
- A young mother is murdered in her apartment. May Allah give her peace and justice.
- Cambridge University has unveiled a pilot study examining the multiple struggles that European Muslim women face as they seek equality. More here, via ProgressiveIslam.
- More on Amna Fatani.
- In the wake of the attacks on Shirin Ebadi’s home and office, supporters showed up with roses to remind her that her work is appreciated. Via Global Voices Online.
- Three defence lawyers wore headscarves in a Danish court in protest over a parliamentary proposal to ban religious symbols in court.
- Women in Kerala fight against arbitrary divorces.
- A Kuwaiti justice insists that gender equality is pivotal to social development. A Pakistani minister is singing the same tune.
- On the rise of religious schools in Kyrgyzstan.
- A bright young girl is patronized by the wife of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum.
- The Times of India profiles Women Without Borders, an initiative to stop extremism.
- Rich ladies donate expensive bags to charity.
- Women are no longer served at some restaurants in Quetta, Pakistan.
- Cycads reviews Ombak Bukan Biru.
- The Yemen Times asks if women marginalized by political parties will form their own. That. Sounds. AWESOME.
- Albanian Muslims can now wear headscarves in their ID photos. More from IHT.
- Bahraini women are fighting an abused Family Law that allows husbands to extort money from divorced wives.
- Reem Acra designs the gown that the wife of the Vice President of the U.S. wore.
- Another article about how Muslim women are fashionable under their abayas. Via Hijabtrendz.
- The Dubai Women’s Establishment and the Center of Arab Women for Training and Research agree to share notes.
- Religious discrimination in the American workplace is being met increasingly with filing complaints.
- In an effort to curb divorce rates, the Abu Dhabi General Women’s Union will offer classes to help married couples.
- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with female Afghan lawyers this week.
- Sakena Yacoobi will speak at the University of Washington the first week of February.
- İzgi Güngör believes that women should play a larger role in water management.
- Women in Bahrain complain that roads are never named after women.
- In Burkina Faso, practitioners are performing female genital cutting on babies instead of girls to escape increased legal scrutiny.
- Danish website Journalisten profiles me and the site! Yippee skippee!
- On the inefficacy of raids in stopping sex trafficking.
- The Washington Post writes about how Pakistan’s girls aren’t getting the education they deserve because of the Taleban.
- A alleged mixed gender soccer game in Iran is getting lots of people in trouble. More here.
- Anisa Mohammed was named the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s Cricket Board of Control Player of the Year!
- FW: profiles Najla Al-Awadhi, an Emirati renaissance woman.
- An interesting installation in London’s Saatchi Gallery.
- Because Saudi Arabia will not allow women to drive or compete in driving races, the FIA will not sponsor their races.
- The Daily Times opines about the state of women in Pakistan.
- How the One Million Signatures Campaign may have changed one woman’s life already.
- The hejab goes green!
- Racism on a Canadian college campus concerns Muslim students.
- Menassat profiles Princess Hijab.
- IslamOnline examines the difficult road ahead for female Iraqi politicians.
- Muslim and Mormon women gather together for charity.
- On how media reports mess up the facts on human trafficking.
- no snow here gives information on how to help Palestinian women.
- Twenty percent of Bangladesh’s parliamentary seats are to be filled by women.
- A Yemeni politician affirms that women’s rights are supported by the parliament.
- There is a growing demand for fitness centers in Saudi Arabia, and one chain aims to please.
- Saudi wives wish their husbands just call to say “I love you.”
- An Emirati graduate who was offered a trip to Australia as part of an academic award turned it down to prove to her employers that she was committed to her new job.
- According to the president of Italy’s Association for Moroccoan Women, 600 girls are at risk for infibulation.
- Another Islamic swimsuit makes a splash in the market. Ha.
- The University of Toronto holds a forum to help dispel steroetypes about Muslim women.
- An interesting photo questioning hejab is making the rounds with Iranians.
- On the phenomenon of marriages of convenience for the LGBT Muslim community.
- Marian Zeila, chairperson of the Somali Media Women’s Association, says she’s not afraid of Al-Shabab.
- Thousands of women are running in Baghdad elections.
- The Guardian speaks with the author of a book that discusses how Iraqi women’s rights have been set back.
- Two Algerian women have accused a CIA officer of rape. More from The New York Times, Tariq Nelson, and The Washington Independent. Via DeenPort.
- A bill in Nigeria aims to prohibit same-sex marriage.
- A new publication discusses strategies to end discrimination against women.
- An interview with Cherien Dabis, the director of Amreeka.
- The Qatari cabinet approves a final draft of a bill for the elimination of all forms of discrimination agaisnt women.
- The Yemen Times profiles a women-only photography studio.
- Omid Memarian writes about how neo-c0lonial feminism hurts women’s rights in Iran.
- A woman flees to a shelter to escape her husband, only to find that the shelter she’s run to is incredibly strict.
- Women’s groups meet in Tunisia to call for the end of inheritance discrimination.
- A Canadian play about the life of an upper-class Iranian woman opens in Tehran.
- McMaster University writes about arranged marriages.
- Harassment in Afghanistan often keeps girls away from school.
- Gaza women tell give their accounts of the Israeli attacks.
- Iranian women and the revolution of empty promises.
