Author Fatemeh Keshavarz talks about her book and leadership in Iran and the U.S.

The founder of Canadian Association of Muslims with Disabilities is honored by the Canadian Council of Muslim Women.

Oman’s newest council doesn’t have any women. Booooo!

I forgot to post this last Friday! Iranian women kick ass at rugby.

Those who raped and murdered Muslim women during religious riots in India in 2002 face justice on earth, alhamdulillah.

U.N. war crimes tribunal upholds a 15-year jail sentence for a Serbian man who raped Bosnian Muslim women. My only question is: only 15 years? Really?

Dr. Ingrid Mattson discusses Islam in America. Man, she’s cool.

Some positive videos about Muslim women in sports.

The first Pakistani woman astronaut gets ready to blast off!

A Spanish film about the discrimination that Muslim women who wear hejab face in Spain.

Why Ayaan Hirsi Ali isn’t a good spokesperson for Islam.

Police detain dozens of Muslim Kashmiri women for protesting the U.N.’s failure to resolve the Kashmir dispute.

Queen Rania comes to California and kicks ass!

Haleh Afshar takes up a seat in the British House of Lords, just for being one smart lady.

Why Islamo-Facism Awareness Week is full of crap (and lots of hate,too).

Kabul has a fashion show for policewomen. This is supposed to build moral among female policewomen how? With all the fashion shows it's had lately, you'd think Kabul would be the world's next fashion capital.

A Saudi woman makes the case that niqab is a cultural garment, not a religious one.

Scary. White supremacists demonstrate against niqabis’ rights to vote.

A great post on exactly why all this political uproar about niqab in Canada is racist.

Unique Muslimah talks about the sly marginalization of Muslim women on Yahoo!

Australia kicks around the ridiculous idea of banning hejab in airports. Is Australia still a democracy?

Tunisia’s courts rule a ban on hejab unconstitutional. Enshallah this will prevent future harassment of hejabis in Tunisia.

A review of AlSanea’s Girls of Riyadh: Just another neo-Orientalist book?

Science isn’t always objective: James Watson links sunlight to libido, and suggests that Muslim women who cover the majority of their skin are frigid. I think he’s just mad because no Muslim woman in her right mind would want to have sex with him.

Nirali magazine discusses the fact that people still just don’t get the idea of purdah (or hejab).

Barikallah! The United Kingdom gets its first Muslim woman in Parliament.

Dr. Ruqaya Al Alwani is presented with the Tunisian President Award for her publication The Role of the Muslim Women in Development

Al-Ahram argues that the Carnegie Endowment on International Peace’s recent publication on the status of women in Islamic movements is biased.

Some good musings about the attire of Muslim women in the media.

An interview with ISNA’s (the Islamic Society of North America) new president, Ingrid Mattson, who I think is pretty cool. It’s telling of an accepting community when it can elect a non-Arab, non-Muslim born woman who reverted to Islam (AND kept her name) as the president of ISNA. AND she leads prayer. Damn, that’s cool.

Sisters are doin’ it for themselves: some Muslim moms open a law firm.

What’s new in Gulf abaya fashion.

Didn’t we tell you? Colleges look at Muslim women’s memoirs that reinforce Western stereotypes.

Two plays about Muslim women come to the U.S. The Veiled Monologues and Is.Man: two different plays, two different directions.

Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned wins the Chatham House Prize for Improving International Relations.