- Common Ground News runs an interview with Fatema Mernissi.
- Baroness Warsi was prohibited from attending a conference by her boss.
- The Asian Human Rights Commission makes a plea for Sri Lankan woman sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia.
- The Daily Mail explores why “modern British career women” convert to Islam.
- The Somali militant group Al Shabab executed two teenage girls on suspicion of espionage. May Allah give them peace and justice.
- The Star profiles Wanita Umno and the role it’s played in cultivating the development of women’s issues in Malaysia.
- Gawker profiles the wife of the man recently arrested on suspicion of planning to set of bombs in the Washington, D.C. metro.
- Libyan women ground their artwork in tradition.
- Newsline: burqa bans are “forced emancipation.”
- A flush of funds allows for more scholarships for Muslim women in Bengal, India.
- Shirin Neshat’s Women Without Men was shown in Qatar this week; it’s the film’s first Middle Eastern screening. More from The Peninsula.
- Nicholas Kristof asks, “What about Afghan women?”
- A lower court in New Delhi ruled that a rape test (called the “two finger” method) was obsolete and should be stopped, but no changes have come forth.
- The Los Angeles Times reports on job discrimination that women who wear headscarves face in Lebanese businesses.
- In Kenya, two parents are petitioning their daughters’ high school to allow the girls to wear headscarves to class.
- Sensitivity fail: a woman leaves an Australian Parliamentary session in tears after she thinks she has to remove her headscarf.
If we’ve missed any news about Muslim women from this week, feel free to post links in the comments.
