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Muslim ‘Hijabistas’ Generate Growing Fashion Buzz

By Hajer Naili ● Uncategorized ● August 5, 2013

Designers, photographers and bloggers are generating interest in all the fashion possibilities of loose, flowing fabrics and covered hair. Fans include Christian women who can’t find much church-going attire at the local mall. The second of two stories for Ramadan about Muslim women in the United States.

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French Riots Intensify Debate Over Face-Veil Ban

By Hajer Naili ● Uncategorized ● July 30, 2013

Since youth riots last week over a police identity-check of a woman wearing a niqab, France has resumed debate of a 2011 law banning the face veil. Critics of the ban say it is part of a pattern of Muslim stigmatization.

Latina Converts to Islam Growing in Number

By Hajer Naili ● Uncategorized ● July 15, 2013

For one woman it started with a quest for a closer connection to God. For another it was the surprising discovery that Islam might help her resist the domination of her Catholic father. First of two stories for Ramadan about Muslim women in the U.S.

Religious Double Standards Leave Many Muslims Single

By Naomi Schaefer Riley ● Uncategorized ● June 30, 2013

Sex segregation can also make it hard for Muslim youth to get to know each other, leading to higher interfaith marriages, says a marriage counselor in this excerpt from Naomi Schaefer Riley’s “‘Til Faith Do Us Part.”

Femen Activists Detained as Tunis Trial Adjourns

By Hajer Naili ● Uncategorized ● June 5, 2013

Three European activists face up to six months of prison for staging a topless protest in Tunis to demonstrate support for a Tunisian ally, Amina Sboui, who is facing legal problems of her own.

Islamic Extremists Alarm Secular Women in Tunisia

By Hajer Naili ● Uncategorized ● April 4, 2013

Tensions are rising between secular Tunisian women and political Islam. “There is no room for the opposition and women to participate in building the country we want,” says one critic.

Shirin Ebadi Urges Arab Women to Keep the Faith

By Hajer Naili ● Uncategorized ● April 3, 2013

The 2003 Iranian Nobel Laureate said that the main obstacle for post-revolutionary Arab women is a “patriarchal culture” that imposes a false interpretation on Islam.

Banning Muslim Veil Denies Women a Choice, Too

By Judith Sunderland ● Uncategorized ● September 22, 2012

Forcing Muslim women to cover up can be a huge human rights violation; banning them from wearing the veil is problematic too, says Judith Sunderland in the collection of essays, “The Unfinished Revolution.” In this excerpt, she explains why.

Muslim Daughter in India Breaks Home-Bound Custom

By Anjali Singh ● Politics ● September 1, 2011

Muslim girls and women in northern India have the lowest levels of education and are the least likely to leave home to work. When one 19-year-old pushed her way into the paid work force she had to brave the fury of her younger brother.

Indian School for Muslim Women Triples Enrollment

By Surekha Kadapa-Bose ● Politics ● June 24, 2011

Enrollment is booming at a women’s college that serves Muslims in a hard-pressed textile neighborhood of Mumbai. One proud parent says the students are defying the low expectations that surround the community and women who wear abayas.