On Sunday, November 13th, TLC is set to premier a new 8-episode series: All-American Muslim in the United States. As this comes from the same channel that brings American viewers Sister Wives and the Kate+8 debacle, I’ll admit my immediate thoughts surrounding the show are wary, to say the least, when it comes to its […]

This post was originally published at the interrogations of shamshouma. In the last few weeks, The Saudi TV channel MBC has been broadcasting an ad of a Saudi national breast cancer campaign, organized by Zahra Breast Cancer Association. Officially launched on October 10th, the national campaign is led by Princess Hessah Bint Trad Al-shaalan (the […]

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Saudi activist Suhaila Zein al-Abidin objects to the segregation of men and women in the Shura Council, questioning why ‘mixing’ is accepted in other settings but not in matters related to the Shura council. Arab News answers the question why Saudi men prefer to perform hajj alone: not only are women an additional cost, they are a […]

This year the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE) held its third global conference in Istanbul Turkey. The conference, titled “WISE: Muslim Women Leaders at the Frontlines of Change,” lasted just four days, from October 14 to October 17, 2011.  It included panel discussions, debates, and training sessions. This year’s conference was centered […]

Last week, as Halloween approached, searching for Halloween costumes online was interesting. Once more, like every year after 9/11, I was faced with the issue of hijabs, niqabs and burqas as Halloween attire.  As we’ve previously discussed on MMW, hijabs, niqabs, burqas and the like are not okay as Halloween costumes. More generally, cultural appropriation […]

Editor’s note: A longer version of this post is available on Tasnim’s personal blog. Craig Thompson’s graphic novel Habibi took 7 years to complete and is close to 700 pages. The result is described on the book’s website as “a parable about our relationship to the natural world, the cultural divide between the first and […]

Hello and salaams dear MMW readers, I am honoured to be writing this as new Editor-in-Chief (aka Boss Lady) of Muslimah Media Watch. We’ve been on hiatus over the past few weeks, making a few structural changes and coming up with other new ideas for how to make MMW even better.  Here are some of […]

In August 2007, I started Muslimah Media Watch as a place to complain about the way Muslim women appeared in the media. In the four years since, MMW has expanded into a worldwide network of smart, engaging Muslimah writers. We’ve transformed the blogosphere and the classroom with our critical look at media and Muslim women, […]

A 70-year-old female military commander in Afghanistan keeps the men in line. What the Playland hijab incident tells us (if you totally simplify the hijab and make narrow assumptions about why people wear it.)  In other news, four people accused of “disorderly conduct” in the incident have pleaded not guilty. Linda Sarsour, an aspiring municipal […]