One of the most anticipated Ramadan series this year was 3ayza Atgawez, (“I Want to Get Married”), based on a blog-turned-bestselling-book by Ghada Abdel Aal. The series stars Hend Sabry as Ola, an Egyptian pharmacist under pressure to marry having reached the age of thirty and facing the social stigma of spinsterhood. Each episode focuses […]

This was written by Arwa Aburawa. Regular readers of Muslimah Media Watch may remember last year’s article criticizing the coverage of Muslim women in Marie Claire. Guest contributor Asma Uddin pointed out that the magazine’s coverage showed Muslim women as “sequestered, brainwashed, and victimized, if by no one else than their own, naive, unknowing selves.” […]

Shariah-approved sex aids. ‘Nuff said. In the U.S., everyone’s in an uproar about Imam Rauf. Rafia Zakaria looks at his wife, Daisy, instead. The French Senate approved the burqa ban. Guernica looks at the intersection of women’s rights and Shariah law. The veil debate is dividing Bangladeshis. A 14-year-old girl committed suicide was murdered after […]

Most Arab women I know have at one point or another cursed an Arab man and his stubborn adherence to male chauvinism, something that rears its ugly head in patriarchal societies around the globe. This topic usually boils down to this: a man has problem with independent woman. In a song titled “Metlak Mish 3ayzin” […]

The back of her novel describes Taslima Nasrin’s Revenge: In contemporary Bangladesh, Jhumur marries for love and imagines life with her husband, Haroon, will continue much as it did when they were dating.  But once she crosses the threshold of Haroon’s family home, Jhumur finds she is expected to be the traditional Muslim wife: head […]

Egypt is gearing up for its presidential elections next year. As campaigns are off to a head start, so too is the mudslinging. The latest smear campaign is targeted at opposition leader and potential presidential candidate, Mohamed ElBaradei. However, instead of maligning ElBaradei himself, the smear campaign dishes out its unscrupulous attack on Laila ElBaradei, […]

Salam alaikum, readers! I hope your eid was wonderful. It’s that time of year again! The Seventh Annual Brass Crescent Award nominations are open! Last year, you voted us Best Women’s Blog (for which we felt really special). Feel like nominating us for Best Women’s Blog again? Or Best Group Blog? Head on over and […]

Salam alaikum and eid mobarak, readers! Image by Khaloodies, via DeviantART.

The New York Times profiles a Muslim woman whose husband died in the 9/11 attacks. Foreign Policy interviews Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani. Another casualty of the Iraq war: single Iraqi women. Sakineh Ashtiani will receive lashes because a newspaper published a picture of a woman mistaken for Ashtiani without her headscarf. Her son is still waiting […]

In the latest hijab shake-down, Imane Boudlal was taken off the schedule as a hostess at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel because she insisted upon her right to wear hijab to work. Boudlal, a Moroccan-born Muslim woman, already wore the hijab at home, but said that she learned of her Constitutional right to wear it to […]