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NEWS ABOUT: Muslim women

Muslim women stories: 31 news summaries

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 Mozart Helps Snap
 Saudi Taboos 

Mixed-gender concert signals opening to outside world

May 3, 08 9:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mozart hasn't challenged cultural taboos for more than 200 years, but last night he caused quite a stir in Saudi Arabia. A German-based quartet gave the nation its first public classical concert where men were allowed to hear Mozart and sit next to, gasp, women. "The concert is a... More »

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Saudi Arabia • classical music • concert • Muslim women • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 In Saudi Arabia, 
 a Hotel for Women 

Men-free Luthan Hotel 'meeting a very big demand' in conservative Muslim kingdom

Mar 21, 08 5:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Saudi Arabia’s first hotel catering exclusively to women—right down to its plush spa—opened this week in Riyadh, the Independent reports. The conservative kingdom enforces strict Islamic segregation of sexes in public, but women can stay at the Luthan Hotel without a male guardian—nor any men on... More »

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Middle East • Saudi Arabia • Riyadh • Islamic Sharia law • hotel • spa • spas • Muslim women • Wahhabism • Luthan Hotel

Tehran's Top Cop Nabbed
in Brothel

Man charged with 'moralizing' Iran capital caught with prostitutes

Mar 12, 08 4:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - The man in charge of "moralizing" Iran's capital city is out of a job after being arrested during a raid on a Tehran brothel, Ynetnews reports. Police chief Reza Zarei, who had led crackdowns on women who disobeyed strict Islamic dress codes, was caught naked with six prostitutes in... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Islamic Sharia law • irony • Muslim women • brothel • Reza Zarei • Farda News

Harvard Begins Women-Only Gym Hours

Controversial move to make Muslim females more comfortable

Mar 5, 08 10:49 AM CST
(Newser) - Harvard is trying out women-only gym hours at one of its facilities to make exercising easier for Muslim women. Six of the 70 hours a week that the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center is open will be barred to men so that Muslim women feel free to dress appropriately for working... More »

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Islam • Muslim Americans • sexism • athlete • Muslim • exercise • Harvard • Muslim women • gym

Saudi Officials See Red Over Valentine's Day

'Immoral' holiday sparks temporary
ban on color

Feb 12, 08 4:05 PM CST
(Newser) - In preparation for Valentine's Day, Saudi Arabia has temporarily banned all things red. The morality cops are out in force in search of the color of love, reports CNN, with plans to confiscate everything from flowers to stuffed toys. The ban is part of a yearly effort, complete with raids... More »

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Islam • Saudi Arabia • Muslim women • Wahhabism • Valentine's Day • red

Turkey Lifts Head Scarf Ban

Emotional issue symbolic of class struggle

Feb 9, 08 1:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Turkey’s parliament today lifted the decade-old ban on wearing Muslim head scarves in college, the New York Times reports, a major salvo in the growing battle between Turkey’s growing devout middle class and entrenched secular elite. Proponents of the ban, who fear women will soon be forced to... More »

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Islam • Turkey • Recep Tayyip Erdogan • headscarves • Muslim women

Afghan Student Faces Death for Blasphemy

Journalist condemned for reading document on women, Koran

Jan 31, 08 8:43 AM CST
(Newser) - Protesters in Afghanistan and abroad have taken up the cause of a journalism student sentenced to death for blasphemy after he downloaded and distributed a document on women and the Koran. Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, 23, was convicted in an Islamic court, and the country's Senate has upheld the ruling. He... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Hamid Karzai • journalism • Koran • Muslim women • blasphemy • Sayed Pervez Kambaksh

Afghan Women Protest Yank Kidnapping

Rare gathering of 500 rallies for female
aid worker

Jan 29, 08 5:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Some 500 Afghan women, many wearing burqas, assembled in an extremely rare mass protest in Kandahar to protest the kidnapping of American aid worker Cyd Mizell. "Her kidnapping is against our culture and tradition," said the director of the women's organization in Kandahar. Some of the women had... More »

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Afghanistan • kidnapping • Kandahar • Muslim women • Cyd Mizell

Turkey to Lift Head Scarf Ban at Universities

Agreement alarms secular elite, which fears Islamist rule

Jan 25, 08 4:54 PM CST
(Newser) - Turkey is expected to do away with a 2-decade-old ban on women wearing head scarves at the nation’s universities as early as next week. The prospect alarms the country’s secular elite, who see the country on a slippery slope to Islamist rule, Der Spiegel reports. “The logic... More »

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Islam • Turkey • Islamic dress code • Islamic Sharia law • AK Party • Muslim women

Dad Charged
in Muslim
Teen's Death

Pair feuded over traditional head scarf, friends say

Dec 12, 07 10:40 AM CST
(Newser) - A devout Muslim father will appear in a Canadian court today, charged with murdering his 16-year-old daughter—allegedly over her refusal to wear a traditional headscarf, reports the London Free Press. Muhammad Parvez, a Pakistani taxi driver, called police Monday morning, saying he had killed his daughter Aqsa. The... More »

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Canada • Muslims • Muslim women • Aqsa Parvez • Muhammad Parvez • Waqas Parvez

Turkey May Lift Headscarf Ban

Constitutional reform would permit Muslim garb in universities

Sep 21, 07 2:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - A debate is raging in secular Turkey over the ban on headscarves that has resulted in Muslim women who don them being barred from universities since 1980. Now, PM Erdogan is considering drafting a new constitution with a less stringent dress code that has made many Turkish women hopeful—and... More »

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Turkey • democracy • higher education • Islamic dress code • Recep Tayyip Erdogan • headscarves • Muslim women

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