April 2012
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“We ask God to cure us of our hardships, without ever stopping to consider that...”
– Yasmin Mogahed  (via arabarabarab)
Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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“People were wondering why Azza Elgarf- the female MP from the Muslim Brotherhood...”
– Dalia Abd El-Hameed (via kawlture)
Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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“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
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Apr 25th
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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
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Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
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“At the peril of being misinterpreted as being opposed to hate crime legislation,...”
– Let’s Report on Shaima AlAwadi Without Saying Honor Killing or Hate Crime | BlogHer (via susegadnz)
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 12th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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Band practice + Safiya TV9 shoot
theheartstrippedband: We recently did a shoot with TV9’s women program called Safiya at our regular jamm studio, Akarkarya and one of our favorite people in the world Fateen took some pictures of us (using Azhar’s iPhone). We’ll keep you posted on the airing time and date for this particular episode once we get the heads up soon, yeah?  They did an interview with Nazz (vocals) on being a...
Apr 9th
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“There are still societies here and there that have been spared by Western...”
– Houria Bouteldja at the beginning of what is proving to be a really valuable piece of writing. (via oliviawaite)
Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
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Apr 6th
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Apr 5th
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Apr 4th
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Apr 4th
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Apr 4th
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 1st
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Apr 1st
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“Don’t think for a moment that your heart is ‘strong’. The heart is a vulnerable...”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via zuleikha)
Apr 1st
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March 2012
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Mar 31st
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Mar 31st
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