Scarves, Veils, Politics and Women

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2011 "COVERED" EXHIBITIONS IN BRITAIN AND ELSEWHERE

2011 FEMINIST CONFERENCES: RELIGION, POLITICS & VEILS

VEILED REVOLUTIONARIES 2011

VEILED REVOLUTIONARIES 2012-2013

Palestine: Women’s Group in Nablus takes culturally sensitive approaches in quest for gender equity

Egypt: Words of Women project documents women’s leading role in country’s January 25 Revolution

Kyrgyzstan: Women see new popularity of Hijab as about responsibility before Allah, faith & choice

Pakistan: Women rally against Govt apathy towards Hazara killings and insecurity

UK: New Muslim Suffragettes face death threats & fatwas for providng tortured & abused sisters with refuge

"BREAKING" BURQAH-RELATED NEWS

Sudan: Exhibition of colourful clothing and trendy fashion sense of women in Darfur

France: Hollande seeks political points via a broadening of headscarf restrictions

India: Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s visit to St. Ann's College for Women in Hyderabad sees scarf-wearing students banished to rear

Iran: Govt stations morality police in Tehran to arrest women for dress & cosmetic transgressions

Global: Rather than to the burqa, the roots of female oppression lie in economic, political, & social discrimination and violence against women

Global: Face veils no risk to State foundations, while other ostensible excuses for bans almost laughable yet succeed in provoking racist violence

Women, Leadership, and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority, edited by Masooda Bano & Hilary Kalmbach

France: Muslim woman defends right to wear burqa at European Court of Human Rights

Europe: Amnesty Report condemns burqa bans for denying Muslim women jobs and education

India: Compliance with college uniform does not imply a burqa ban at Mangalore Colleges

France: President Hollande to retain burqa ban. Vows instead to ‘have it applied in the best way'

Turkmenistan: Bride price raises value of daughters, but wedding veil ensures brides remain faceless

France: Niqab ban subjects Muslim women to private imprisonment & increased public violence

Turkey: Alâ Magazine becomes the warmlyly welcomed avant-garde of "Tesettür," or "Veiled" fashion

Canada: Citizenship & Immigration Minister Jason Kenney bans women’s veils when taking citizenship oath

But also read: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s ban on women’s veils at citizenship oath ceremonies is ham-handed, absurd & unnecessary

Arab Spring: Feminists live in fear of rollback of rights granted under past dictatorships

Yemen: Women torch their makrama to globally expose tyrant Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 'bloody massacres'

Tunisia: Women watch in horror as Western do-gooders & Islamic fundamentalists rejoice first free election

Norway: Yemen's veiled mother of the revolution acclaimed as joint 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate

The Netherlands: Ban on Islamic face veils reflect influence of Freedom Party's anti-migrant bigot Geert Wilders

France: Interior Minister, Claude Gueant, hails prejudice extending bans to outdoor Muslim prayers

France: Businessman, Rachid Nekkaz, sets up fund to pay fines for European women choosing to wear banned Islamic veils

Australia: Ban-the-Burqa-Liberal, Senator Cory Bernardi, also in league with Dutch anti-Islamic Geert Wilders

Australia: Ban the Burqa Rallies disingenuously designed to fuel racism & religious intolerance in the name of security

Read also: US allegations of "veiled" women from Australia being recruited by al-Qaeda disputed as fabricated news

and: Australian Women accept Sharia Law where application "fair" to all parties

France: Sarkozy’s burqa ban a windfall for London at the expense of Paris retailers

Jordan: Iranian women’s soccer team unfairly & cruelly banned from playing Olympic qualifier

UK: Confronting Anti-Muslim Hatred with Organized Resistance to Burqah Bans

France: Under Sarkozy’s (Xenophobic) Veil

A Quiet Revolution by Leila Ahmed

Secularism vs communalism: learning from the ban on full face covering veil in France by MariemeHelie Lucas

France: Excessive burqa law risks turning 'wearing the veil' into a national 'anti-Sarkozy symbol'

Towards A Future Without Fundamentalisms: Analyzing Religious Fundamentalist Strategies and Feminist Responses by Cassandra Balchin

Belgium: "Take Two" of efforts to punish women for even partial covering of face in public

As in German, former Bundesbank banker, come author, Thilo Sarrazin also comes across as a white supremicist/racist in English

France: In bid for racist vote, Le Petit Sarkozy outlaws face veils for residents & tourists

India: Europe's burqa intolerance perpetuates false stereotypes which devalue Muslim women

Dr Huma Ahmed-Ghosh: Dilemmas of Islamic and Secular Feminists and Feminisms

Israel: Protests mount as the Taliban Haredi, ultra-religious women, adopt the burqa for “modesty‘s sake”

Iraq: Since US-led invasion, women’s attire marks the ascendancy of religious values in a once secular society

Germany: Frankfurt case set to reignite national debate on permitted public attire for Muslim women

Iran: Some universities placed on notice to enforce stricter Islamic dress code for both female and male students

Walking a Tightrope: Women and Veiling in the United Kingdom by Ayesha Salma Kariapper