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July 9, 2009
Further protests are expected in Cairo over of the case of an Egyptian woman dubbed the “headscarf martyr” […]
July 9, 2009
Brandon Robshaw writes: “when a female Muslim student arrived at my philosophy AS class shrouded from heat to […]
July 8, 2009
French legislators took up the touchy subject of face-covering, body-length Muslim veils such as the burqa Wednesday, as […]
July 8, 2009
Muslim women in the west who talk about choosing to wear the hijab implicitly dismiss the struggles of […]
July 8, 2009
A Jordanian court on Tuesday halved the jail term of a 29-year-old man who shot his raped sister […]
July 8, 2009
Muslim women in the west who talk about choosing to wear the hijab implicitly dismiss the struggles of […]
July 8, 2009
Far from the violence and unrest that have marred the capital of disputed Kashmir, a group of young […]
July 6, 2009
In the Brisbane Times (Australia), Paul Sheehan writes: “For [many] women, like the women in Afghanistan and other […]
July 6, 2009
More women immigrants in Finland miss out on language instruction than do their male counterparts: in particular, the […]
July 5, 2009
An NHS doctor from east London who was held hostage and forced into marriage has spoken for the […]
July 2, 2009
US-based commentator Mona Eltahawy writes: “As a Muslim woman and a feminist I would ban the burqa.” via:[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/opinion/03iht-edeltahawy.html]
July 2, 2009
The British government has provided school teachers with guidelines on how to spot cases of potential forced marriages, […]
July 2, 2009
A 15-year-old Pakistani girl was hospitalised after reportedly jumping from a balcony in the northern Italian town of […]
June 30, 2009
Al-Qaeda’s North Africa wing threatened on Tuesday to take revenge on France for its opposition to the burka, […]
June 30, 2009
British Conservative leader David Cameron has said that while he supports the right of individual schools to ban […]