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muse — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:35:52 +0000

Mohja Kahf would like to be spared the lecture on Muslim women. I would like to be spared the self-righteousness. I hope I’m not being unfair.

MMW Weekly Roundup 9/27/08

Fatemeh — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:48:19 +0000

What a week! This week on MMW, we get riled up about how Samira Laouni is treated in the press, tsk-tsk over shame cartoons, profile a new Lebanese LGBTQ magazine, read some great Malaysian literature, pick apart Everywoman’s headscarf fashion, wonder what M.I.A. is doing with her fashion line, cover the Iraqi cartoon controversy, and trot out yet another link parade.

The French hijab ban - four years on. Fa …

aziz — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:41:10 +0000

The French hijab ban - four years on. Fantastic retrospective article at IslamOnline.

Veiled athletes at the Olympics: This …

aziz — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:49:14 +0000

Veiled athletes at the Olympics:

This year’s Games will see a sizable sprinkling of veiled athletes who are determined to avoid offending devout Muslims back home while showing skimpily dressed rivals there is nothing constricting about wearing “hijab.”

Can there possibly be anything interesti …

Andrea Useem — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:11:54 +0000

Can there possibly be anything interesting to say about hijab anymore? I think not, yet I was coaxed into telling my own tale. With apologies to Willow for my use of “hijabi.” (And I’ll note the ingenious phrase “dejab” was coined by my awesome editor, Dilshad Ali.)

The following image appeared

thabet — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:15:06 +0000

The following image appeared on a Muslim website recently:

(Via Tabsir.)

muse — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:53:41 +0000

The Fight for Turkey. An op-ed by Roger Cohen in the NYT. He argues that a dose of “secular fascism” is healthy for the bout between the AKP and the secular establishment. Am I the only one finds this ludicrous? Does “Islamofascism” get the same courtesy?

The Onion has its own take on the contro …

aziz — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:17:26 +0000

The Onion has its own take on the controversy in Detroit where two muslim women were barred from the podium behind Obama on account of their hijab:

http://tinyurl.com/67vmwa

It should be noted of course that Obama personally called both women to apologize.

Who’s afraid of the big bad headscarf?

muse — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:57:04 +0000

Who’s afraid of the big bad headscarf? Apparently, Obama volunteers. How a couple of my friends were treated at the O rally in Detroit.

Why Harvard University wasn’t right in …

Andrea Useem — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:27:34 +0000

Why Harvard University wasn’t right in granting Muslim women “women-only” gym hours.