It’s Valentine’s Day and love is in the air – or at least online. It seems in recent years the number of internet dating sites has rapidly increased. With busy lifestyles people are finding it harder to meet others in person. It seems the online dating bug has bitten our Muslim brothers and sisters as […]

Valentine’s Day isn’t a day where women can just forget about all the problems we face as a gender every day of the year. This parody of Valentine cards has a decent aim: to remind us that just because we may receive a card or some flowers one day out of the year,–or two, if […]

The Muslim American organization One Nation is hosting an online film contest about American Muslims. Sponsored by Link TV, the contest features animation, music, comedy, documentary, drama, and films by youth. The short films seek to educating people about “the American Muslim experience,” in all its forms. It’s a great idea. Of course, with twelve […]

This is a public service announcement from somewhere in the Arab world (I tried, but I can’t find any information about it in English. Anyone?) that warns against backbiting. I saw it months ago, and it stuck with me, mostly because of the gruesome imagery and color palette. I came upon it again recently: it […]

Last Friday, BlogTalkRadio’s The American Muslim presented a special program about Muslim women, specifically in the context of life for Muslims in the United States. Saleema Abdul-Ghafur, author of Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak, guest stars. Check it out. It’s a great interview, despite a somewhat comical technical difficulty an hour into […]

Rumours are buzzing around Bollywood of a possible film about Benazir Bhutto. Apparently, efforts were undertaken to make such a film back in the early ’80s by British-Pakistani playwright and author Tariq Ali, but due to tensions between Pakistan and India this did not happen. At that time, Benazir had just recently lost her father […]

When the topic of Islam comes up, Muslim women are rarely the voice for discussion. With women pointed out as victims or relevant to only issues of dress, men’s voices dominate the conversation. The radio program Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippet provides a happy exception to this trend. Tippet’s show features discussions on a […]

Al Arabiya’s English website features a gallery that introduces soft news stories through pictorials: their recent features include Lebanese singer Fairouz and Saudi soccer player Sami Al-Jabir. Last month, they featured one about Iranians, entitled “Nose-Job Nation: Iran Goes Plastic Fantastic,” which highlights the rhinoplasty “trend” in Iran. I am so sick of hearing about […]

Check it out! MMW‘s Editor-in-Chief was interviewed in a Danish daily newspaper, Information. Here’s the original Danish version. Muslim women are blogging to challenge the stereotypes in the media which – in so far as Muslim women are even represented –picture them as passive victims or as dangerous, sexualized and nameless objects. That makes Muslim […]

Yesterday, we included a link to a news story describing bombing attacks in crowded Baghdad markets, carried out by two women. The death toll from these attacks has risen to 100. Several news outlets have revealed that these two women were mentally disabled and their explosives were detonated by remote control. May Allah guide us.