Friday Links — January 1, 2010January 1st, 2010 Fatemeh Happy (Gregorian) New Year, readers! Here’s to another year together!
- A recent Cairo conference suggests that the sexual harassment of women is becoming a pan-Arab phenomenon<http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/978/fe1.htm>, according to Al Ahram. - Iran has barred single women from working for a state firm<http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hjc6wDh9Hv3pmnQ3y4t5Znnf10oA> that operates a huge gas field and petrochemical plants on the shores of the Gulf. - *Hurriyet Daily News *reports that the former director of Boğaziçi University blames women for the lack of women in administrative roles. Uh… - *The National* profiles Sheikha Mozah<http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091226/MAGAZINE/712259972/0/magazine> as one of the people of the decade. - Ziba Mir-Hosseini discusses gender taboos that have been broke<http://www.merip.org/mero/mero121709.html>n in post-election Iran. Via Iran Unfiltered<http://www.iranunfiltered.com/journal/2009/12/28/on-rights-and-sexual-honor.html> . - Hijabtrendz interviews Hanan Turk<http://hijabtrendz.com/2009/12/28/hijabtrendz-exclusive-hanan-turk/> . - A German court imprisoned a Kurdish man for life<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/301351,german-court-gives-father-life-jail-for-honour-killing-of-daughter.html> for ordering the “honor killing” of his own daughter after being told she had lost her virginity. Via Islam in Europe<http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/12/germany-life-sentence-for-ordering.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IslamInEurope+(Islam+in+Europe)&utm_content=Google+Reader>. More here <http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=988722>. - The Iranian government has detained Shirin Ebadi’s sister<http://www.iranunfiltered.com/journal/2009/12/29/ebadi-sister-detained.html> in an attempt to stop her work. - In the Netherlands, a doctor turned away a woman because she wore a niqab<http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/12/utrecht-doctor-turns-away-burqa-wearing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IslamInEurope+(Islam+in+Europe)&utm_content=Google+Reader>. The doctor later apologized. - Bikya Masr interviews Ahdaf Soueif <http://bikyamasr.com/?p=6933>. - *The Christian Science Monitor *reports that Palestinian women are increasingly turning to skin-whitening creams<http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2009/1228/Skin-whitening-cream-finds-new-popularity-among-Palestinian-women> . - Bangladesh has a huge potential for sending women workers abroad <http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2009/12/30/news0868.htm>if they are provided proper training, according to *The New Nation. *This is good news…until you realize that “abroad” = Gulf countries, which are notorious for domestic worker abuse. - Iraqi women struggle to find work<http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/200912274152/Culture/iraq-women-struggle-to-find-work.html> . - According to *Today’s Zaman, *women managers constitute 22.8% of the total top-level administrative staff <http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-196893-105-228-percent-of-large-corporations-management-women.html>of Turkey’s large private sector corporations. - Tulay Goren’s case marked the first time that prosecutors called on expert witnesses<http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091228/FOREIGN/712279900/1002> in an honor crime trial. - Bikya Masr gives us a brief history of modern sexual harassment in Egypt <http://bikyamasr.com/?p=7008>. - A campaign is being stepped up to ensure that women in Bahrain emerge from divorce<http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=267473> with alimony, rightful custody of their children and a roof over their heads. - *Elan* looks at the Miss Palestine beauty contest<http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/miss_palestine_competition_cant_escape_the_politics-nid208746154/#When:17:32:07Z> . - The Muslim community in Dresden, Germany, will build a mosque to honor Marwa El Sherbini <http://bikyamasr.com/?p=7292>. - *Gulf Weekly *reports that Bahraini women still model themselves after women in Hollywood<http://www.gulfweeklyworldwide.com/article.asp?Sn=7101&Article=23816>. Like everyone else in the world… - Organic Muslimah writes about Muslim dating in two<http://organicmuslimah.blogspot.com/2009/11/muslim-dating-reality-of-our-ummah.html> parts<http://organicmuslimah.blogspot.com/2009/12/part-2-muslim-dating.html> . - Gothenberg University’s new dress code raises questions<http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/12/gothenburg-university-dress-code-aimed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IslamInEurope+(Islam+in+Europe)&utm_content=Google+Reader> about whether it’s aimed specifically at Muslims. - *Elan* looks at the polgamy brouhaha<http://www.elanthemag.com/index.php/site/blog_detail/polygamy_for_chicks_saving_spinster_men_everywhere-nid736899034/#When:18:03:42Z> brought about by Nadine Al Bedair’s article. - On unmarried women in Egypt <http://bikyamasr.com/?p=7113>. - A Muslim woman is claiming in a federal lawsuit that she was dismissed from the Atlanta Police Department’s civilian honor guard<http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11742295> because she refused to remove her headscarf. - Gaza-based Palestinian Women’s Information and Media Center reports that 77% of Gazan womenface violence of some kind<http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1261364538889&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull> . - Are there really “no good Muslim women”<http://www.altmuslimah.com/a/b/a/3483/> ? - ThisDay looks at why maternal mortality is so high<http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=162912> in parts of Nigeria. - Sixty-four percent of women in Jammu and Kashmir believe it is justified for a husband to beat his wife<http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091228/jsp/frontpage/story_11915492.jsp> . - *Macleans* believes they’ve figured out why Egyptian women like niqab<http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/12/30/egyptian-women-like-their-niqabs/> . - A state-level consultation of Muslim organizations in India has urged the Government to frame rural employment schemes that would benefit Muslim women <http://www.zeenews.com/news591508.html> also work from their home. - Daniel Pipes overreacts to hijab<http://www.loonwatch.com/2009/12/daniel-pipes-unhealthy-obsession-with-the-hijab/>. Surprise. - Maryam Babangida dies of ovarian cancer<http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/Environment/5503062-146/story.csp>. May Allah give her peace. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
