Sally Mauk: Islam promotes equality, American Muslim woman says
Source: Missoulian Aisha Rahman is a American-born Muslim raised in a small town in Tennessee, where her father was a doctor at a small hospital. Her family had emigrated earlier […]
After the Arab spring, the sexual revolution?
Source: The Guardian Author: Martin Chulov, Eileen Byrne, and Abdel-Rahman Hussein An explosive call for a sexual revolution across the Arab world in which the author argues that Arab men “hate” Arab women has provoked a fierce debate about the subjugation of women in countries such as Egypt, Morocco and […]
Taliban website under repeat attack by hackers
Source: The Guardian (Author): (Reuters in Kabul) Hackers have for the third time in less than a year attacked the main website of the Afghan Taliban. The Taliban has blamed western intelligence agencies amid an intensifying cyberwar with the insurgents. The unidentified hackers broke into the Taliban’s El Emara website […]
Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabian Mufti, Says Girls Ready For Marriage At 10 Years Old
Huff Post “Those who call for raising the age of marriage to 25 are absolutely mistaken.” That’s what Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti,Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh said when asked about marrying minor girls without their consent, according to The World Observer. He also insisted that girls are ready for marriage by age 10 or 12. […]
Saudi woman scientist bags gold medal in Geneva fair
By ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: A member of the applied sciences faculty at Umm Al-Qura University has won a gold medal for her innovation at the 40th International Exhibition of Inventions […]
Age of consent for marriage of Saudi girls soon
By DAMMAM: ARAB NEWS The Justice Ministry will soon make an announcement to establish the age of consent for Saudi women to marry, local daily Al-Madinah reported yesterday quoting an official source at the ministry. Director of the Department of Marriage at the ministry Muhammad Al-Babtain said a decision on […]
Acid attacks and Pakistani schizophrenia
Dawn.com I’m not particularly interested in the Oscars. Surprising really as I have recently taken to making films myself, but the Oscar winning films are often of little interest (Inception and Inglorious Bastards are rare exceptions). My ears pricked up however, when news trickled through that there had been a […]
Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in anti-education attack
Dawn.com Since the 2001 toppling of the Taliban, which banned education for women and girls, females have returned to schools, especially in Kabul. But periodic attacks still occur against girls, teachers and their school buildings, usually in the more conservative south and east of the country, from where the Taliban […]
Book refutes stereotypes about Saudi women
By RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO, ARAB NEWS STAFF Saudi women have been playing an active role in all walks of life in society and compete with men in acts of […]
Can Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala break America’s hold on the World Bank?
The first time Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ever had to convince Barack Obama of anything was back in 2005. At the time, Obama was an ambitious young senator from Illinois with a […]
Killing of Bangladeshi Labor Organizer Signals an Escalation in Violence
Courtesy: NY Times By JULFIKAR ALI MANIK and VIKAS BAJAJ DHAKA, Bangladesh — A labor activist who was arrested two years ago for his role in protests against low wages in Bangladesh’s garment industry was found murdered outside this city last week, labor rights advocates and the police said on […]
Dutch design challenges Fifa’s football hijab ban
Players were prevented from wearing the hijab at top levels of the game for safety reasons, and because of rules stating that religious symbols were not allowed. Critics say the ban promotes inequality at the highest level of the world’s most popular game. A Facebook page called “Let Us Play“, […]
Football hijab ban ‘could be lifted’
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Hijab Asserts Women: Rowan Williams
Source: onislam CAIRO – The outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams believes that hijab is a personal choice for Muslim women that can help them “assert themselves” in communities with different cultures, The Week reported. “She told me how she would wear her veil and yet take part, too, in […]
Poll indicates Arabs believe women’s status will improve
Manama: Most Arabs believe women will be better off in post-revolutionary countries where political Islam is on the rise, an opinion poll indicates. According to the Doha Debates poll, 75 per cent of the respondents believed women’s prospects would be brighter as the quality of life would improve and women, […]
A heroic effort
Please permit me to reproduce here a letter to the editor of the Gulf News of 5th April 2012: A heroic effort I was driving back to Abu Dhabi from Dubai the other night on Shaikh Zayed Road when I saw a van losing control. It skidded across the lanes […]
Woman: Click tricks
A few years ago, Nicole Anderson left her travelling days as cabin crew and took on the world of photography. The Dubai-based photographer says, “The satisfaction of capturing the true essence of each subject and putting smiles on the faces of others was what got me hooked.” Anderson specialises […]
When Home Is No Refuge for Women
Source: The New York Times NEW DELHI — This month, two women’s stories, told courageously, helped to underline the reality of domestic violence in India. Nita Bhalla, a journalist, wrote for the BBC about being physically assaulted by her partner. Meena Kandasamy, a poet and writer on social issues, wrote […]
Saudi women in misyar unions become losers due to lack of rights awareness
By JEDDAH: DIANA AL-JASSEM, ARAB NEWS STAFF Published: Mar 24, 2012 23:51 Updated: Mar 24, 2012 23:51 Saudi women fail in misyar marriages due to low awareness of their rights and duties. A misyar marriage is a marriage created to fulfill the needs of both the man and woman, with […]
What women really want: income equality- Do they?
Global Post.Com: BERLIN, Germany — On average, it will take a German woman until March 23 to earn as much money as a male counterpart earned last year. That is the […]