Posts Tagged ‘South Africa’

• Big Love: Appropriating Feminism in Advocating Polygamy

  September 30th, 2009

  Stories about polygamy tend to surge and ebb in the media, but they never fail to intrigue people....

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• Women's Day in South Africa

  August 18th, 2009

  Since 1994, South Africa celebrates National Women’s Day every year on the 9th of August, and more generally...

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• Tariq Ramadan Speaks to South African Women

  July 30th, 2009

  Last weekend, my husband and I made the six hour drive to the coastal city of Durban, to...

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• A Marriage made in Parliament: South Africa's Muslim Personal Law Bill, Part 2

  May 6th, 2009

  This is part two of our series on Muslim Personal Law in South Africa. Today, we will analyze...

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• A Marriage made in Parliament: South Africa's Muslim Personal Law Bill, Part 1

  May 5th, 2009

  This is the first of a two-series post on South Africa’s Muslim Personal Law bill. Today’s post will...

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• Al Huda – Guidance for a disunited community?

  April 6th, 2009

  Her confidence overshadowed the edginess in her voice, when she proclaimed, live, on a very orthodox community radio station,...

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