Okay, so our readers have spoken! Our original Friday link format is back! We’ll do our best to keep it this way! Somali women face immense battles: famine, political instability, and rape. An interview with Anjum Zamrooda Habib, a prominent Kashmiri resistance fighter. The Washington Post profiles an Egyptian woman who’s gaining fame by teaching […]

As most people reading this probably know, it’s Ramadan, which brings some combination of fasting, iftars, overeating, praying, partying, and so on.  In the world of online media, many of us have come to expect the yearly collections of photographs (such as those from the Washington Post and the Boston Globe), as well as written […]

…comes outstanding wisdom! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7gAcn4Idow This young lady rants about something we’ve all had enough of: comparing women to precious objects or food or in order to convince us to wear hijab. We’ve written about this before, but it’s refreshing to see it put together in another way. Preach, sister!

The Eight Annual Brass Crescent Awards are upon us! In case you’re new to the Brass Crescent Awards, they’re “an annual awards ceremony that honors the best writers and thinkers of the emerging Muslim blogosphere (aka the Islamsphere). Nominations are taken from blog readers, who then vote for the winners.” Nominate your favorite blogs here. […]

NPR looks at how religious leaders in Pakistan are misleading women about birth control and family planning: Zakaria says being poor should in no way limit having babies. Referencing the Quran, he says, “God will provide the resources and no one will starve.” “There are clear instructions in the Holy Quran, in which Allah says, […]

I was really looking forward to reading this book, as I still love young adult fiction and was intrigued to see what a Muslim take on the genre would read like. From Somalia with Love focuses on 14-year-old Safia who lives with her Mum and two older brothers in the heart of the Somali community […]

I found it refreshing to see pictures of a young Iranians taking part in a water pistol fight in Tehran in The Guardian. Until I realize that every single picture is of soaked women. Anyone else feel weirded out by this? That’s the kind of side-eye I’m talking about, sister. Image via Amir/Demotix/Corbis. I’m confused […]

We’re exploring a Friday Links format here at MMW. It’s different than our usual. Let us know what you think in the comments! And, as always, feel free to include links to news about Muslim women from the past week in the comments! News coverage of Muslim women in New Zealand is rare, but the […]

Fatima Mernissi’s book The Forgotten Queens of Islam is a historical study that analyzes women’s place in the public sphere and their relationship with power. Her book explores the ironies and oxymora of women and power through Islamic history. Mernissi transcends the historical to discover the bits and pieces of the situations surrounding political women […]

Ahdaf Soueif’s novel The Map of Love, published in 1999, tells the history of Egypt through two parallel plots, set at the beginning and at the end of the 20th century. During a conversation with Egyptian intellectuals, one of the characters argues, familiarly, that: we live by slogans. We take comfort in them: the great […]