April 2012
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aidahrasheed: Jamillah Karim on “Narratives of Black Muslim women” at the Fourth Annual Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Conference entitled “Expressions of Islam in Contemporary African American Communities,” Harvard University, April 7-8, 2012. Jamillah Karim is author of the award-winning book American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah. She earned her...
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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)
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Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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