NEWSPAPER: “Muslim Women Give Holiday Gifts To Nursing Home Residents”
Tweet From The Tulsa World (Oklahoma) Muslim women, others give gifts to nursing home residents By NOUR HABIB World Scene Writer Published: 12/15/2011 2:26 AM Last Modified: 12/15/2011 7:29 AM An ornament hanging on a drugstore’s Christmas tree featuring a simple Christmas wish – new socks – touched Teresa Mallak’s heart. Mallak, 32, saw the ornament at a Drug Warehouse, one of...
DAILY BEAST: “Saudi Arabia Religious Police to Ban ‘Tempting Eyes’”
Tweet From The Daily Beast By David Keyes Nov 19, 2011 9:23 AM EST In the latest affront to women’s rights, the U.S. ally has announced that it has the right to cover women’s eyes—’especially the tempting ones.’ David Keyes on how they’re defending the outrage. It’s a safe bet that Sheikh Motlab...
NPR AUDIO: “In Rural Pakistan, A Rare Hospital for Women”
Tweet From National Public Radio By Julie McCarthy August 22, 2011 Women and children fill the waiting room of the Umrana Mumtaz Healthcare Trust Hospital in northwest Pakistan. The private medical clinic is leveraging technology and the Internet to serve tens of thousands of patients a year who otherwise would have little or no medical...
CNN VIDEO: “Killing of Baby Girls on the Rise in Pakistan”
Tweet From CNN By Reza Sayeh July 20, 2011 Karachi, Pakistan (CNN) — At a morgue in Pakistan’s largest city, five linen pouches — each the size of a loaf of bread — line the shelf of a walk-in freezer. Wrapped inside each small sack is the corpse of an infant. The babies are victims...
COLUMNIST: “Hijab: A Symbol of Faith and Freedom”
Tweet From Cincinnati Enquirer Roula Allouch’s hijab “is the last thing I put on before I cross the threshold of my home,” she says. / The Enquirer/Michael E. Keating Written by Krista Ramsey It happens so often Roula Allouch is almost used to it. Strangers walk up, point to her hijab – the headscarf some...
HUFFINGTON POST: “The Question of Muslim Women’s Rights”
Tweet From The Huffington Post Engy Abdelkader Human rights attorney The question of Muslim women’s rights is an intriguing one requiring discernment of Islam’s egalitarian principles from the ill-informed practices of some of its adherents. To be clear, Islam is defined as a monotheistic, Abrahamic faith. Islamic jurisprudence is largely comprised of teachings from the...
NEWSPAPER: “Muslim Women’s Coalition to Open Resource Center”
Tweet From The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel June 28, 2011 Couple invests $600,000 of their own money for the project Samira Hassan, 12, tosses a globe to another girl of Somali-Bantu background Tuesday during an exercise to get know one another, part of a class on American culture at the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition, 5235 S....
HUFFINGTON POST: “Women Retake Islam” by Kamran Pasha
Tweet From The Huffington Post Kamran Pasha Hollywood filmmaker, author of “Shadow of the Swords” and “Mother of the Believers” Many fans have asked where I have been for the past few months. I have been a regular blogger for the Huffington Post since 2009, often commenting on issues relating to Islam and the media,...
REUTERS: “Pakistan’s Female Madrassas Breed Radicalism”
Tweet From Reuters By Rebecca Conway ISLAMABAD | Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:19am EDT (Reuters) – Varda is an accountancy student who dreams of working abroad. Dainty and soft-spoken, the 22-year-old aspires to broaden her horizons, but when it comes to Islam, she refuses to question the fundamentalist interpretations offered by clerics and lecturers nationwide....
NEW YORK TIMES COLUMN: “Saudi Arabia’s Freedom Riders”
Tweet From The New York Times By FARZANEH MILANI Published: June 12, 2011 THE Arab Spring is inching its way into Saudi Arabia — in the cars of fully veiled drivers. On the surface, when a group of Saudi women used Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to organize a mass mobile protest defying the kingdom’s...
