I grew up with hundreds of fond memories when I moved in the third grade to a house of baby-pink bricks in the Deep South of the United States. There was a tree in the yard for my sisters and me to climb during the summer months and to avoid altogether during the spring when […]

Ilhan Omar, a 34-year-old, hijab-wearing Muslim-American woman, has become the United States’ first Somali-American legislator after winning a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives. A group of women in Jordan are defying gender roles for a career on the road. While it’s not easy working in a male-dominated sector, the country’s female taxi drivers […]

A few weeks ago Musleh Khan, a chaplain working for the Toronto Police, was all over the media for his comments on women and obedience on a 2013 webinar for couples. In the webinar titled “The Heart of the Home: the Rights and Responsibilities of a Wife” (the video has been taken down), he asserts […]

Editor’s note: This is the first of two MMW reviews of the book Muslim Mothering: Global Histories, Theories, and Practices. This article looks at chapters 4, 10, and 11 from Muslim mothering: Global histories, theories, and practices (2016), edited by Margaret Aziza Pappano and Dana M. Olwan. I chose to look at these three chapters […]

Two teenage girls in Morocco face up to three years in jail on homosexuality charges after they were caught kissing. According to Article 489 of the Moroccan Penal Code, any person who ‘commits an unnatural act’ with an individual of the same sex may be sentenced to six months to three years of imprisonment. In […]

I recently discovered Not Done With Life Yet on my bookshelf and I was surprised it had hidden itself away from me for the last year. I received it as a gift from my cousin on my last trip to Palestine. She handed it to me at the end of my trip when I had […]

Some of our MMW readers might remember Nicole Hunter-Mostafa, who wrote several posts for MMW in 2013.*  The MMW team was deeply saddened recently to learn that Nicole passed away of cancer about a week ago.  She leaves her husband and two young daughters, as well as a wide network of family and friends around […]

Salaams dear MMW readers, We’ve missed you!  After taking a couple months off, the MMW team is excited to be back in action, ready to share more of our analysis of Muslim women and media that you have come to know and love. I also wanted to share some good news – in fact, some […]

…However else the fiction functions, it fills you with the sound of crows chirping, alive alive alive. But that’s temporary too. Tell my story, begs the past, as if it was a prayer for an imagined life or a life that’s better than the life you live -For Brothers of the Dragon by Terrance Hayes […]

Yusra Mardini, an 18 years old refugee from Syria nearly died in the Mediterranean after fleeing her country. Today, she is getting ready to compete at the Olympics as part of the refugee team. A doctor who carried out female genital mutilation (FGM) on a 13-year-old girl who later died from her injuries has been […]