- Fifteen-year-old Fahema Abdillahi has been missing for over a week. May Allah keep her.
- Afghan women write their stories for the Afghan Women’s Writing Project.
- Iran plans on holding an International Congress on Successful Women Who Wear Hijab.
- A French parliamentarian said he would file legislation to bar Muslim women from wearing veils that hide their faces in public.
- Egypt’s Attorney General Abdel Maguid Mahmoud revealed that there were an estimated 9,351 under-age marriages in the country.
- The Saudi Writer’s Conference focuses on women and literature.
- Violence against women is not a tenet of Islam.
- According to the National, victims of domestic violence and abuse in the Emirates may see justice carried out more swiftly after the courts and women’s rights campaigners signed a new agreement.
- An article promoting polyandry for women published in an independent Egyptian newspaper has caused a stir.
- British laws against female genital cutting aren’t producing any results.
- A woman was elected to the board of the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry on her first attempt.
- South Asian women from all social arenas met in Washington, D.C., to fight against AIDS.
- Today’s Zaman explores the hijab ban in Turkey.
- A leading Cairo university will appeal a court decision allowing female students to don the full face veil on campus dormitories.
- Malaysia’s High Court fixed January 25th, 2010 as the day when a decision will be made about the book by Sisters in Islam that has been banned.
- On the need for more female bankers in predominantly Muslim countries.
- Iran’s Karate Federation banned a specific style of karate because female athletes were forced to remove their headscarves to be allowed to compete in Germany.
- A 90-year-old Emirati woman will compete in the region’s Qur’an memorization competition.
- Only 60 of the 890 eligible women cast their votes for the Eastern Province chamber of commerce in Jeddah on a day that was reserved exclusively for women voters.
- The Telegraph profiles Nora Naraghi, an Iranian motor cross champion.
- A couple in Ajman, U.A.E., who bought a young Iraqi girl from her parents and prostituted her were each jailed for three years yesterday. Six years total? Really?
- Access to cheap, ready-baked bread has helped liberate Egyptian women from the kitchen, allowing them to enter the workforce or spend more time with their children.
- Somayeh Rashidi, an Iranian women’s rights activist, has been arrested.
- Poorna Shetty discusses honor killings in the wake of Tulay Goren’s murder.
- A new law will guarantee that any groom who discovers that his bride is not actually a virgin will be eligible for a refund from Egypt’s Consumer Protection Agency. WTF.
- Women’s political participation in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia is to be enhanced under a new United Nations-backed project launched for an innovative website to provide them access to information, the exchange of experiences, ideas and good practices.
- Shad, a 30-year-old Kurdish woman from Iraq, has immigrated to the United States in hopes she can live without fear for the first time in her life.
- Her Royal Highness Princess Basma Bint Talal highlighted the role of Jordanian women.
- Al Arabiya interviews author and activist Siba Shakib.
- AltMuslimah investigates the obsession with fair skin.
- In Pakistan, P@sh@ has launched Take Back the Tech, a collaborative campaign to promote technology to end violence against women.
- Uzbekistani Umid Ahmedova is facing trumped-up charges from the state.
- Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh has been released.
