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The dream of Amany Al-Tunisi, a 25-year old Egyptian young woman, came true in July 2008 when her radio station went on air. “Banat wi Bass” (Girls Only) is the first Arabic radio station of its kind in the Arab World – it is run exclusively by young women and focuses on women’s issues.
Amany, the [...]

From BBC News
A Jordanian man has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for killing his married sister in what he said was an act to save the family’s honour.
The man strangled the 16-year-old after she refused to explain absences from her marital home, the court heard. It emerged she had seen a female friend.
The sentence had [...]

In an act that has sparked outrage among Egyptian women’s rights activists, a controversial Islamic scholar filed a lawsuit against the minister of health protesting a recent ban on female circumcision, a practice referred to by rights groups as female genital mutilation (FGM). Egyptian Sheikh Youssif al-Badri claimed the ministerial decree violated the Egyptian [...]

(From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail December 12, 2007 )
Late Monday night, one of those many conflicted Muslim teens died, succumbing to injuries she received at the hands of her own father, if the police version of events is true. Friends said the 16-year-old Mississauga teen, Aqsa Parvez, had enraged her parents by refusing to [...]

(From the Chronicle Herald Editorials…)
WORLDWIDE outrage has rightly greeted reports that Saudi Arabia’s “justice” system recently sentenced a young woman, gang-raped by seven men, to 200 lashes for being alone with a male friend who was not related to her through blood or marriage.
We stand with and commend the actions of decent people like Nancy [...]

When Rajaa Alsanea’s debut novel was released in Lebanon in late 2005, it created a sensation in the Middle East by portraying the private lives of young Saudi women in colloquial Arabic and relatively explicit detail. Now, English-language readers can see what the fuss was about.
Alsanea dives into the world of a group of women [...]