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16/1/2007
International: Women's discourse in the Qur'an - rights based or duty based?
Asghar Ali Engineer writes about the importance of issues surrounding women in Muslim contexts, particularly in contemporary societies.
15/1/2007
India: Gujarat 2006 - women & children in Modi's regime
Women have been special targets of communalist ideology and communalist violence.
15/1/2007
Cameroon: Mass polygamous wedding
A mass wedding takes place in Cameroon for mostly polygamous couples to encourage concubines to wed.
15/1/2007
Bahrain: Young divorcee is threatened for speaking out against Sharia courts, politicized judges and the lack of a personal status law
14/1/2007
Canada: Quirky look at Muslim life in the sticks
For Zarqa Nawaz, a hijab-wearing Muslim woman living in the Canadian prairies, life in the west has always provided certain conundrums. For example, is a woman obliged to cover herself in the presence of a gay man?
13/1/2007
Nigeria: Amina Lawal haunts Yar’adua
The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Umar Musa Yar’adua is now confronted with his past and the role he played in the sentencing of Amina Lawal Kurami to death by stoning by a Sharia Court in 2002.
12/1/2007
Afghanistan: 22 women and children to a cell - life in a notorious Afghan prison
Shaima left her violent husband and married a man she loved. They lived happily, but after a few years the police came after her - adultery is illegal in Afghanistan - demanding 4,000 afghanis (£42) in exchange for her freedom.
11/1/2007
Pakistan: When she speaks, he’s breaking all of Islam’s taboos
Ali Saleem may have devised the perfect, if improbable, cover for breaking taboos in conservative, Muslim Pakistan.
10/1/2007
Malaysia: Polygamy is everywhere!
Most of those who are involved in polygamous relationships are often in denial, says Indonesian film director Nia Dinata.
10/1/2007
Malaysia: Malaysian group to research polygamy's effects on Muslim families
Opponents of polygamy in Muslim-majority Malaysia are carrying out a rare survey to prove their claims that the practice throws families into emotional and economic turmoil.