February 2012
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Watchaidahrasheed:
my first short film —> shekhinah | 16mm Color Film | 4:19 | © 2010
During the summer of 2010 I created my first short. It was an impulsive idea. I wanted to shoot somewhere beautiful and use 16mm color film. The original intention was to create a film capturing a group of Muslim Women in a serene space praying, cleansing, and reading scripture (being in a complete state of...
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Islam and Women's Rights by Zainah Anwar [UCLA... →
dorkery:
The Islamic resurgence that has engulfed most Muslim countries today has thrown forth different levels of tension and competing ideologies within these societies: what Islam, whose Islam is the right Islam? Very often, it is the status and rights of women that have become the first casualty in this battleground.
The struggle for equality and justice for Muslim women must therefore...
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In pictures: Somali samosa seller || BBC News →
Daily life of Faduma Aden Mohamud
(via Muslimah Media Watch)
“Islamic feminists understand the necessity of working both within the Muslim...”
– Margot Badran (via thalamtnafsee)
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“I met with many courageous Afghani men and women who value progress and are...”
– WISE Program Manager Fazeela Siddiqui’s account of their pilot program in Afghanistan.
Read More: Training Afghani Imams to End Violence Against Women
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The Niqab: an endless argument →
Dr. Salah Al-Din Al-Jumaee, a psychologist at the University of Sana’a explained that the niqab wearing is a Turkish cultural custom that Yemenis began imitating during the Turkish rule in the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries. “The niqab forms chains around women and hinders her movement and freedom particularly at academic institutes and in the work place,” said Al-Jumaee. “Whenever illiteracy...
“He brings his Fatima and his Ali close to him. Their house is made next door to...”
– - Dr. Ali Shariati, “Fatima is Fatima” (via keepingtaqwa)
“I still have hope.”
– Randa Adnan, wife of Khader Adnan, speaks out on his detention that forced him to lapse into an increasingly dire hunger strike. Khader Adnan’s hunger strike, spanning over 65 days, is the longest in the history of Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Randa has been allowed to meet her husband only twice...
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Initiative ‘Offers Hope’ to Female Saudi Job... →
While women’s education in Saudi Arabia is moving forward at a rapid pace, few jobs are held by women. In 2011, 46 per cent of the national budget ($40 billion) was dedicated to education and training. Saudi Arabia’s education budget has more than tripled since 2000. Princess Nora University, the first women’s university in Saudi Arabia and the largest women’s university in the world, has...
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World Players' Union Backs Campaign to Lift Fifa... →
The world football players’ union is backing a campaign to change Fifa’s laws of the game by allowing Islamic women to wear hijabs.
“The current ban on wearing headscarves for religious reasons is discrimination,” said the Fifpro spokeswoman Frederique Winia.
Football’s rules-making panel outlawed the wearing of hijabs by players for safety reasons in 2007, but...
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Training Afghani Imams to End Violence Against... →
by Daisy Khan
On Nov. 17, 1999, the world witnessed a horrific image: An Afghani woman named Zarmina was dragged through a soccer stadium and killed by the Taliban. As a Muslim woman, the outrage that I felt was indescribable. Islam teaches hope, mercy and love and in no way condones the violence depicted on my television that day. The outrage that I felt propelled me to do something....
“Everyone is trying to save the Muslim woman; Western society must save her from...”
– Nadia El Awady (via egyptiansoapbox)
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“I guess by now I will say I love Betty. She’s the only woman I ever even...”
– Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
To learn more about Betty Shabazz click here.
Today is the anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination.
Note: I apologize I can’t find the proper source for that quote. It was sent to me in an email, but I have yet to find it in my own copy of the Autobiography of Malcolm X. If you know that this is a legitimate quote please send me a message.
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“When I speak, my every word
speaks of You.
And when silent,
...”
– Rābiʿah al-Baṣrī (via theconsciousmuslim)
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Women in Somalia say they should be considered for... →
As Somalia’s transitional government and various stakeholders meet Wednesday to discuss the inclusion of the country’s clans in the new government, women politicians have called for a greater role in the leadership of this East African nation. The Somali government, regional autonomies, civil society, and the non-militant Islamist group Ahlu Sunna Waljama’a will meet in Garowe, Puntland state...
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opsucrus asked: Get it girl! Mashallah!
sharquaouia asked: Mash'Allah! Congrats and good luck :)
I just got accepted into an ivy league graduate program, Alhamdulillah :) I haven’t had time to come up with posts (due to impromptu celebrations), so I apologize if there is a delay in posts!
