Christiane Amanpour talks to Nobel Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai and Syrian Muzoon Almellehan, a Syrian refugee, about the importance of education for girls. Ahd is a Saudi Arabian actor, writer, director whose second short film in which she also acted, “Sanctity”/ “La sainteté”, financed by France’s CNC, won the 2012 Doha Tribeca Development Award, received […]

The International Rescue Committee recently sent photographer Meredith Hutchison to meet with young Syrian girls in two refugee camps in Jordan and ask them about their hopes and dreams. The project, called Vision Not Victim, saw the girls draw pictures of what they want to be when they grew up, now that they have escaped […]

David Cameron has been accused of stigmatizing Muslim women after he announced plans to help them learn English and warned that migrant spouses who fail language tests may have to leave the UK. Cameron made it to the top headlines, when he decreed that Muslim women need to learn English, and came up with plans […]

Typically, in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north, discussing personal and marital issues, like sex and domestic violence, is seen as going against the grain. However, an Instagram page is changing how Muslim women in Nigeria share personal problems. Hadja Lahbib’s insightful documentary, Patience, Patience, You’ll Go to Paradise!, focuses on Belgium’s Muslim community, where the older generation […]

When Ala’a Basatneh was recently contacted by the office of U.S. Representative Mike Quigley’s, she thought there must have been something urgent about the situation in Syria. But she was invited to attend the State of the Union address as a designated Invitee. Violence against Muslims has skyrocketed in recent years, and especially since the […]

In Sepideh: Reaching for the Stars, a film by Berit Madson, we follow a brave Iranian young woman as she watches the stars, while tensions steadily rise at school, in the mosque and at home. When she was 16, someone tried to pull her headscarf. Rather than withdraw, Rana Abdelhamid turned her anger into a program […]

#IWillProtectYou: 8-year-old Muslim girl’s fear of Donald Trump strikes sympathetic chord in Us service men and women. Adults can take Trump’s rhetoric, but not kids, argues the girl’s mother. Maajid Nawaz, the founding chairman of Quilliam, is yet another man offering an unsolicited opinion on whether we Muslim women should wear the hijab. Since the terrorist attacks […]

  Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley writes for the Time about how violence against Muslim Women is racist and misogynist. On December 10, Wheaton College associate professor of political science Larycia Hawkins announced on Facebook that she would wear a hijab. On Tuesday, the professor was placed on administrative leave by the Christian liberal arts school. Amid Rising […]

In the ultraconservative context of Saudi Arabia, appeals such as recycling and creating Western style public libraries, are breaking new ground: They are coming from some of the more than 900 female candidates in the kingdom’s first nationwide election in which women are able to run — and vote. American Muslim women who wear religious […]

The growing use of social media in recent years provides opportunities for Muslim women to speak truth to preconceptions. Wired lists 5 women quashing preconceptions about Islam on social media (including MMW’s own Sana Saeed). A group of Saskatoon Muslim women in Canada is trying to break through stereotypes by inviting other women to meet them, and […]