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- Chasing a Mirage
The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
- Headscarf ban turns France's Muslim women towards homeworking
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Headscarf ban in French public service jobs turns many Muslim women towards self-employed e-trading.
- Headscarves and Hymens
Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A condemnation of the repressive political, cultural, and religious forces that reduce millions of women to second-class citizens.
- Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Book Review
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
One afternoon earlier this year, I stepped into the carriage of a Cairo metro train. I was on the way home from interviewing female students - all of them devout, veiled Muslims - who had been snatched off the street and sexually assaulted by police for protesting against the military regime. It was hard for them to speak openly about the attacks for fear of shaming their families and destroying their own chances of marriage.
- The hijab: "preventing common impositions"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Children are not the property of their parents. They are individuals with rights and bodily integrity. And just because their parents believe in child veiling or FGM and male circumcision doesn't mean they should be automatically entitled to impose their views on their children, especially when these views are harmful.
- Iran: Compulsory veiling is abusive, discriminatory and humiliating; end the persecution of women for peacefully protesting against it
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Amnesty International criticizes Iran's compulsory veiling laws, arguing that they are not only harmful to women, but fundamentally unconstitutional.
- Iranian police arrest 29 women over protests against compulsory hijab
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Iranian police have arrested 29 women in the capital, Tehran, after they protested against a law that makes wearing the hijab compulsory.
- My Stealthy Freedom: The Hijab in Iran and in the West
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
An interview with Masih Alinejad, an outspoken critic of the forced hijab policy in Iran, about how the Islamic Revolution affected women, compulsory hijab laws, and her activism.
- Pride parade in Vancouver rejects Iranian over veil float
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Iranian Shawn Shirazi and his group Cirque de So Gay were denied entry to the Pride Parade in Vancouver, Canada this year because their float criticising the veil was deemed to be 'culturally [in]sensitive'.
- The Veil and Violence against Women in Islamist Societies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
The ongoing battle between the Islamic authorities and women over the veil clearly reveals why it has become a symbol like no other of the violence women face under Islam and why 'improper' or 'bad' veiling and unveiling have become a symbol of resistance to Islam in power and its violence against women. It is for this very reason that the slogan 'neither veil nor submission' has become a rallying cry ever since the regime imposed compulsory veiling on women after expropriating and crushing the revolution to consolidate its rule.
- What's all the fuss about the veil?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
It is impossible to address the status of women under Islamic laws and defend women’s rights without addressing and denouncing the veil. And this is why the veil is the first thing that Islamists impose when they have any access to power.
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