Muslimah Media Watch thanks Latoya for the tip! Jezebel does an interesting review of Rajaa AlSanea’s Girls of Riyadh that focuses on the consumptive angle of the book; i.e., how obsessed with luxury goods upper class Saudi women are. While the review itself wasn’t a revelation (I think that an obsession with luxury goods is […]

From January 3 – 26, the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (IFCC) of Portland, Oregon, will be hosting two exhibits designed to give a face to women in oil-producing countries, many of which are predominantly Muslim. “Janet Essley’s exhibit- Oil/Resist- is a play on words between the media Ms. Essley is using and the message in […]

Since I was first introduced to it, I’ve been a fan of the radio program This American Life. Each episode of the weekly show looks at a “theme” and fills the hour with stories — real and fictional — of different experiences that reflect the theme. Some stories inspire, some bring tears to my eyes, […]

Here’s Rudy Giuliani’s Islamophobic new campaign commercial, which began airing on TV in Florida recently. It’s full of angry brown guys with beards and guns! How novel!: And here’s a hilarious reaction to Rudy Giuliani’s new Islamophobic campaign commercial. What really busts my brain about this is the images of women he uses. He uses […]

Last year, the Internet advocacy group Avaaz created the video “Stop the Clash of Civilizations” to complement a petition by the same name. Avaaz, “Talk is rising of a ‘clash of civilizations’. But the problem isn’t culture, it’s politics – from 9/11 to Guantanamo, Iraq to Iran. This clash is not inevitable, and we don’t […]

Speaking of words we call ourselves, I must mention the derogatory terms. “Hojabi” and “muhajababe” have worked their way into our vocabulary (hojabi even has its own entry in UrbanDictionary.com). And, they are pervasive enough that non-Muslims have begun to use them in reference to us. They exist because we ourselves have invented them and […]

The names we call ourselves has been on my mind a lot lately. It started when I read a fellow blogger’s post that about an alleged hejabi- and niqabi-only cafe. In it, she implied that right-wing conservatives used the term “hijabi” and “niqabi”. Since I don’t consider myself a Muslim version of Michelle Malkin, I […]

In very recent times it seems that news about violence against Muslim women is everywhere. I was recently directed to a Boston Globe article entitled The Islamist War on Muslim Women by Jeff Jacoby. He describes the many recent incidents of violence, leading to death, against Muslim women in Muslim countries as well as in […]

Muslimah Media Watch thanks Safiya for the tip! The U.K.’s Channel 4 is airing a film festival this week, titled: “Unveiled: Love and Sex in the Arab World.” (sigh) Nice title. Very original. So we’re guessing that the aim is…to show that Arabs love and have sex? If that is the aim, then it’s not […]

By now it seems there is no one who has not heard of Facebook. This ‘social utility’ as they call it has become so popular that people of all backgrounds are taking part, creating their profiles, adding lots and lots of friends, and joining various groups with others of similar interests. To me joining groups […]