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July 3, 2009

Ban the Burqa

by Mona Eltahawy, New York Times, USA - I am a Muslim, I am a feminist and I detest the full-body veil, known as a niqab or burqa.

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Meet the Radical Homemakers

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by Ruth Gledhill, Times Online, UK - The Church of England is to go ahead with the plan to create women bishops without giving in...

Marrakesh's Troubling Transformation into Luxury Hot Spot

by Britta Sandberg, Spiegel, Germany - Less than a decade ago, tourists shunned Morocco because of its poor infrastructure and supposedly unsafe conditions. Now, though,...

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by Anne Bartlett, Sudan Tribune, France - Recent months have witnessed an attempt to shift attention away from Darfur, yet the situation in the West...

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by Mariam Hamed, Palestine Note, Palestine - Don't be surprised if one day you find a crying infant thrown in front of a children's hospital,...