May 2012
30 posts
2 tags
May 31st
267 notes
1 tag
May 30th
264 notes
1 tag
May 29th
64 notes
1 tag
May 27th
254 notes
10 tags
“It is no coincidence that so many in the West are affronted by Muslim...”
– The dignity of the feminine in Islam: Against Zizek’s Orientalism – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) An interesting piece by Rachel Woodlock
May 26th
87 notes
1 tag
May 25th
101 notes
May 24th
58 notes
1 tag
May 23rd
44 notes
2 tags
May 21st
1,978 notes
3 tags
May 20th
35 notes
1 tag
May 18th
339 notes
4 tags
May 17th
12 notes
3 tags
May 16th
24 notes
4 tags
May 15th
55 notes
2 tags
May 14th
90 notes
3 tags
May 13th
165 notes
2 tags
May 12th
23 notes
1 tag
May 11th
39 notes
2 tags
May 10th
200 notes
3 tags
“Postcolonial feminisms have worked tirelessly to highlight the complexities of...”
– Politics at the Tip of the Clitoris: Why, in Fact, Do They Hate Us? via Jadaliyya Sara Mourad begins her piece with a relevant point: What baffles me most about Mona Eltahawy’sForeign Policy article is that it does not accomplish the task it sets out for itself; it does not, in fact, answer its...
May 10th
33 notes
10 tags
May 9th
15 notes
3 tags
May 9th
217 notes
5 tags
May 8th
259 notes
2 tags
May 7th
67 notes
2 tags
May 6th
427 notes
2 tags
May 5th
410 notes
2 tags
May 4th
9 notes
1 tag
May 3rd
59 notes
2 tags
May 2nd
300 notes
3 tags
http://fuckyeahfatbrownhijabis.tumblr.com/ →
Check it out
May 1st
5 notes
April 2012
48 posts
3 tags
WatchWatch
abudaii: sharquaouia: Mona Eltahawy and Leila Ahmed debate on MSNBC. Watch this, please.  Follow link here. Read Leila Ahmed’s response to Mona Eltahawy’s article. Leila Ahmed is all class.
Apr 30th
210 notes
2 tags
“We ask God to cure us of our hardships, without ever stopping to consider that...”
– Yasmin Mogahed  (via arabarabarab)
Apr 29th
639 notes
3 tags
Apr 28th
216 notes
1 tag
“People were wondering why Azza Elgarf- the female MP from the Muslim Brotherhood...”
– Dalia Abd El-Hameed (via kawlture)
Apr 27th
101 notes
6 tags
Apr 27th
2 notes
4 tags
Apr 26th
179 notes
1 tag
“Our own American misogyny (date rape, weak laws against domestic violence, glass...”
– Mohja Kahf, “Muslim Women Rule and Other Little-Known Facts” in Fawzia Afzal-Khan (ed),  Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out, Moreton-in-Marsh: Arris Books, 2005 (via muslimfeminists) The only good thing to come out of the ridiculous Foreign Policy “Sex Issue,” outside of some great...
Apr 26th
174 notes
2 tags
Apr 25th
1,125 notes
3 tags
Dear Mona Eltahawy: You do not represent "Us"
sharquaouia: It all started this morning when Kawlture suggested we feature the Foreign Policy issue cover on our blog, the Mainstream Media and the Orient. I was on my phone and could not see the cover clearly. At first, I thought it was blackface, but upon zooming in and reading the the featured article title by Mona Eltahawy, my eyes weren’t fooling me. It really was a woman covered in a...
Apr 25th
502 notes
2 tags
Apr 24th
127 notes
2 tags
Apr 24th
3,156 notes
2 tags
Apr 23rd
9 notes
1 tag
Apr 23rd
1,714 notes
2 tags
Apr 22nd
1,372 notes
4 tags
Apr 22nd
16 notes
3 tags
Apr 22nd
108 notes
2 tags
Apr 21st
555 notes
4 tags
Apr 21st
27 notes
2 tags
WatchWatch
Apr 21st
35 notes
1 tag
Apr 20th
255 notes