Gender segregation now mandatory in Gaza schools
In an Associated Press article in Mercury News, Ibrahim Barzak and Dalia Nammari report that gender segregation will become mandatory in Gaza middle and high schools at the beginning of the new school...
View ArticleLibyan mufti issues edict against UN document on women’s rights, says it...
According to an Associated Press article on Newser, Libya’s supreme religious cleric Mufti al-Sadiq al-Ghiryani issued a fatwa Monday against a UN document on women’s rights, claiming that it runs...
View ArticleMuslim bikini model Maryam Basir enjoys her moment
In The New York Observer, Zev Chafets discusses the life and work of Maryam Basir, a Muslim bikini model whose line of work has added new fire to “the debate between traditional Muslims and reformers.”...
View ArticleYou won’t believe what these Muslims are protesting about
Femi Oke at Upworthy writes that “a Muslim fraternity from the University of Texas at Dallas took to the streets to protest against domestic violence” recently, posting pictures online that have “made...
View ArticleLondon shari’a council caught treating divorce like North Carolina Republicans
Stephen Webster at Raw Story reports that that a London shari’a council “utterly failed [a] community of battered Islamic wives” this Sunday when it “force[d] numerous women to stay with abusive...
View ArticleDo Muslim women go to mosques?
In response to the question “do Muslim women go to mosques?” John Green writes in a piece published for Opposing Views that while many female Muslims “attend mosques throughout much of Islam [...] not...
View ArticleWhere are the US news stories about Arwa Talal al-Hejaili?
Arwa Talal al-Hejaili may be on her way to becoming the first Saudi woman to practice as a lawyer in the Kingdom. While currently registered only as a trainee, she is the first woman to have been, and...
View ArticleShari’a police in Indonesia ticket women straddling motorcycles
Jessica Chasmar at The Washington Times reports that shari’a police “ticketed 35 women in Indonesia” this Friday for disobeying a Lhokseumawe “bylaw that prohibits female passengers from straddling...
View ArticleSecular is Not Always Better: Asifa Quraishi-Landes on Women in Islamic Law
The Institute For Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) recently published a policy brief written by ISPU fellow and islawmix expert Asifa Quraishi-Landes entitled Secular is Not Always Better: A...
View ArticleSaudi women protest restrictions on female drivers, and one activist makes a...
Ben Hubbard at the New York Times reports that “a few dozen women” took to their cars last Saturday in an effort to “violate one of the most stubborn social codes in Saudi society”– one stipulating...
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