MSA correspondant Sarah Camiscoli reports from the realm of We’re So Over Sex and Vaginas theatrical productions. Falling on the Monday after a weekend of a whole lot of Vagina talk, the NYC premiere of the Hijabi Monologues brought in a full house of students and friends intrigued by the irony and progressiveness of a production whose title replaces [...]
Why hijab-wearing Muslim women have a real affinity for hard rock God gave rock’n’roll to you! So US rock band Kiss chanted in the early 90s, a cover of the original song by British group Argent. My relationship with this “divine” gift started early. At 12, I riffled through my brother’s vinyl collection and emerged [...]
Don’t think that Hanan Turk will keep her Hijab on? Well, think again, because she’s not willing to take it off, not even for movie role. She says the Hijab could be turned into something positive in movies. She continues to say that wearing the Hijab for her is something normal, and if a person [...]
KUWAIT CITY // When Bedoor al Mutairi waited for an hour for a lift from her brother after getting a flat tyre in the summer of 2008, she began to question Kuwait’s cultural aversion to women riding in taxis. “If I was riding in a cab, other people would see me and say: ‘Oh my [...]
Since her 2007 album Dans ma Bulle (Inside My Bubble) debuted at the top of the charts by selling 50K copies in its first week, Diam’s has become the hottest emcee in France. Not the hottest female emcee, but the hottest emcee in general. Diam’s is known as a feminist rebel who spits rhymes about war, racism, poverty, and [...]
THIS year’s Short+Sweet festival will feature 160 well-crafted plays, from the humorous to the controversial, including Rosemary Chance’s exploration of Australian anxieties of women who wear the hijab, Wearing the Veil. Play director Denise Sivasubramaniam has worked on a number of productions and said directingWearing the Veil had been one of her greatest experiences. “The [...]
By Suleiman Al-Nabhani ONAIZA – As debate rages in the Kingdom over the pace and manner of women’s entry into the workplace, a young woman and her mother have taken the initiative to start their own business, with the help of the government. Razan is a young Saudi electronics geek who operates her own software [...]
Boston I knew I was in trouble the moment I sat down. I’d just taken a seat next to an elderly Asian woman on the D-line train, on my way to a college class last year. She immediately stiffened. I began reading a book. She started twitching and looking around the train. We passed the [...]
It is not often that fictional books result in social transformations. Harvard graduate student, writer, and Muslim convert Michael Muhammad Knight did just that with his controversial 2005 book, ‘The Taqwacores’. Set in New York, the book is about a fictional group of Muslims all living together in a house which includes homosexuals, alcoholics, adulterers, [...]
A Muslim women’s association will be donating toys to Bradford-based charity Little Heroes after seeing an appeal in the Telegraph & Argus. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association has collected hundreds of toys to distribute to charities across the district in the coming weeks. But after seeing the Little Heroes Holiday Toydrive appeal in the T&A [...]
