Manal and Alaa's bit bucket

This is officially the first Fashion themed post. I don't know why I am linking to this, but me guesses it's because I find it amusing. Also, cleavage, you know?

..like a chinese woman who owns a sword whose husband wouldn't cook dinner. Asian women=submissive? My ass!

All of my favorite Saudi female bloggers: Farah , Eve and Jo are featured in this article on Saudi female bloggers, written by another Saudi blogger Rasheed Abou-Alsamh. My only complaint is that the Blogistani fuckhead Green Tea (who ain't gonna get a link from me) is mentioned in it- who [...]

Why? The Iranian Soccor babes, of course:   Yowzah!In seperate news, the iranians are circulating their own conspiracy theory about why Iran lost to Mexico: The Regime orderd them to . Hmmm…. 

Freedom jumps on the bandwagon of Jem and Yasmina in bitching about egyptian males. Hmm….

MERIP has published two interesting articles on Iran in the last week. The first looked at the strategic Iran-Israel rivalry, arguing that posturing in both countries had to do with their self-image as the region’s only real powers and their need to be counted as a player by the region’s superpower, the US. The article [...]

Iran is very careful about not appearing as if they are men who opress women, so now at women's rights protests they dispatch women officers to beat up the women activists . Now that's equality, no?Iranian police with batons and shields beat women's rightsdemonstrators in a downtown Tehran square Monday, injuring oneprotester and detaining 20.[…]he [...]

Russia's Paris Hilton is taking on Putin. For real.RUSSIA'S most famous party girl has formed a political youthmovement that could undermine one of her closest friends: thePresident, Vladimir Putin.Ksenia Sobchak, 24, is Russia's most glamorous showbusinesspersonality and no stranger to controversy. She has posed nearlynude in a men's magazine and hosts a Big Brotherspin-off.Until now [...]

Laila Lalami, aka Moorishgirl, has a long review essay in the Nation about Irshad Manji and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, two women we’ve written about here before. It’s the most intelligent review of their work I’ve seen so far, particularly as people tend to either dismiss them (as I tend to) or praise them as Courageous [...]

The Saudi female blogger Eve just had her blog blocked in Saudi thanks to the valiant efforts of the Saudi male Blogistanis who really hate to see women expressing themselves over the inetrnet, or like, anywhere. The other saudi female bloggers (Aya and Farah to cite an example) are fuming [...]

A new medical study on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) commissioned by the World Health Organization adds new reasons — as if they were needed — to condemn the practice:WHO’s study, to be published Friday in The Lancet medical journal, found that women who have suffered the most serious form of genital mutilation have a 70 [...]

A message sent to you from a 23 year old female from the Kingdom of  Saudi Arabia Lunacy!

She is baaaaaaaaaackkkkkk.  (H/T Farooha )Saudi is simpley not ready! The OSCAB Blogistanis are already having a fit. How sweet it is to piss them off!

Finally some good news. The Egyptian court of Appeals has ruled in Favor of Hind Al Hinnawy in her paternity suit, according to a close friend of Hind who was with her in court today and who just called me and informed me about it. The baby is now in Ahmed Al Fishawy's name, [...]

If I had to go through what Hal goes through every time she wants to go out , I would fuckin shoot myself. I can't even imagine 10 things I would do before I got out, let alone 20. There is shower, shave, brush teeth, brush hair, put something on, find matching socks, and get [...]

By order of the king nonetheless:King Abdullah has told Saudi editors to stop publishing pictures ofwomen because they could lead young men astray, newspapers reportedTuesday.[…]The king told editors on Monday night that publishing a woman's picture was inappropriate."One must think, 'do they want their daughter, their sister, ortheir wife to appear in this way?' [...]

Just read :President Hosni Mubarak's enforcers have a particular way of dealingwith female demonstrators: they sexually humiliate them. The case ofjournalist Abir al-Askari is but one example. When she arrived atCairo's high court last week for a disciplinary hearing against twopro-democracy judges, she was grabbed by several men."They drove meto Sayyida Zeinab police station. I [...]

This is funny , albeit pathetic:Saudi Arabia has postponed plans to replace male sales staff in lingerie shops with women.The move had been its first cautious attempt to bring more women into the work-place.Why did they do that? Well, the mufti, ehh, intervened:But even minor reforms have incurred the wrath of ultra-conservativereligious leaders, such as [...]

 The Jordanian blogsphere is very upset over Ahmad's little discovery : Apparently 91% of Jordanian University students approve of Wife beating.In Mahmoud Rimawi’s column in Al Rai Today (could not find itonline!) a read a ‘very nice’ statistic: 91% of university studentspolled by the Jordanian Human Right Center approve of wife beating.Anearlier study by [...]

So says the great Ayatollah , who is afraid that having women in their own section all coverd up in a soccer game would cause serious moral breakdown in the fabric of the iranian society, or, something like that. This makes Iran one of the few societies on earth in which women actually want to [...]

Ok, now this just pisses me off :Three years after a U.S.-led invasion toppledSaddam Hussein, only one major U.S. building project in Iraq is onschedule and within budget: the massive new American embassy compound.The $592 million facility is being built insidethe heavily fortified Green Zone by 900 non-Iraqi foreign workers whoare housed nearby and under [...]

You a virgin? Can't get laid in germany (aka total loser)? Need to go to a whore house to lose your virginity? Afraid that the whores will laugh at you ( as if they won't anyway) after you are done due to your lack of inexperience? Well, a german Brothel got you coverd V-boy! They [...]

Now that's what I am talking about . Guess he will no longer get ahead in life.Oh, me is soo funny! 

The Lebanese people have discoverd the Vagina Monologues and they have lebanized it , and even created a new word for Vagina: COCO!I can't wait till it comes to Egypt in arabic. Now that would be the day!

That would be really bad, especially for muslim women in the US: They have enough temptation as it is apparently .About 200 Muslim women who have memberships to the Fitness USA chainof athletic clubs have signed a petition asking the gyms to honor whatthey say was a promise to provide separate exercise times for women [...]

Mindbleed has some questions in regards to "titty empowerment" . Anyone cares to answer him?

I would not usually recommend a story that talks about a “quiet revolution” (cliché khallas) but this could interest some people:At first glance, men seem to hold all the jobs in the crowded city of Cairo: They drive taxis, direct traffic, and iron clothing in steamy laundry shops. But behind the scenes, a quiet [...]

I did a couple stories on the Hind Al Hinnawy/Ahmed Al Fishawy paternity case last year. So I was dismayed when I heard that the court had ruled against her a few months back, and unsurprised when I heard she was appealing. Fishawy refused to take a DNA test. Now committees in Parliament are discussing [...]

Syrian President Bashar Al Assad appointed a new vice-president today — Najah Al Attar, the Arab world’s first woman to hold the position.“Attar will be responsible for following culture policy according to the directions of the president,” SANA said. Attar, part of the old guard in the ruling Baath Party, was culture minister for more [...]