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Muslim men, this one’s for you…
This article has just been published in EMEL Magazine.Muslim women are changing the world. Fed up with voices on all sides telling us how we should dress, what is ‘right’ for Muslim women, and how we...
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Hopes for a post-veil society
We don’t need to get under the veil, we need to get over it. Earlier this year, the head of of Al-Azhar Islamic university found himself in agreement with Italy’s extreme right-wing Northern League,...
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Hopes for a post-veil society (part 2)
I wrote a follow up on the theme of “we don’t need to get under the veil, we need to get over it” for The National, aiming at a Muslim and also a Middle Eastern audience. You can read the full piece...
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Saudi women boycott lingerie shops
If any women amongst you have tried to buy clothing of an intimate nature in Saudi Arabia and other parts of the Gulf, you will know how mortifying it is that the shop assistants are almost always...
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British Muslim women tackling stereotypes head on
This article was published yesterday by Common Ground News Service. London – When it comes to discussing British Muslim women, you’d be forgiven for thinking that we lead a one-dimensional lifestyle:...
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An absurd proposal: what if men weren’t allowed to drive?
This is my weekly newspaper column published yesterday in The National (UAE). With all the recent media coverage of women not being permitted to drive in a certain Middle Eastern country, I got...
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