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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.

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