In June, Manal al-Sherif was arrested for driving. And if the laws can’t get any bizarre, Saudi women may soon be forced to cover their eyes in public (I wonder if they can just wear sunglasses).
The announcement came days after the Saudi newspaper al-Watan reported that a Saudi man was admitted to a hospital after [...]
Ask any teenage girl in the west today about her hobbies and you will find out that one of them includes reading fashion magazines. From such an early and tender age, the nonsense of fashion is filled inside their head through deceptive advertising and the media. They are bombarded with magazines featuring young featuring stars, [...]
It has become a common statement by the average Muslim that women are touched in public places due to their clothing. Regardless of a woman’s clothes, a man does not have the right to touch her. Even if a woman goes to the market naked, if she is touched, the man is to be blamed.
Some [...]
The Pakistani women’s cricket team received a rousing welcome at the airport upon their arrival. They were garlanded and showered with rose petals after winning Gold in the Asian Games. It was Pakistan’s first Asian Games gold medal in eight years.
Nida Dar was the hero of the match with a brilliant all round performance. She [...]
Education isn’t. Educated men treat their wives like animals and educated women put up with all kinds of abuse. Religiosity isn’t. Religious men treat their wives like servants. So what is the solution?
I think one aspect of domestic violence that is not talked about is the custom of joint families. I don’t know from where [...]
Whether the husband abuses his wife verbally or physically, turns her into a baby producing machine, tells her to give her career up or whatever it may be, women simply give in. The problem is that women in the subcontinent don’t fight against abuse.
I stumbled across a girl’s blog who had written that if she [...]
Renowned model and actress Fiza Ali recently launched her very own designer label: Fiza Signature with an exhibition put together by Verve Events at Nai Rang Art Gallery, Lahore. Showcasing her Ready to Wear Spring & Summer 2010 collection, Fiza is also planning to host more exhibitions in Islamabad, Karachi, and Faisalabad to introduce people [...]
Some 15 years ago, Fifi Haroon tagged him as the bad boy of Pakistan’s Fashion Industry. Now, Deepak Perwani wants to shed off that image and is ready to be a nice boy. And it doesn’t stop there. He’s bored. Even though he has had a successful showcasing at Milan Fashion Week as recent as [...]
Forgive an outsider and staunch atheist like myself who, on reading the recent French press comments relating to Ilhem Moussaid the hijab-wearing NPA candidate in Avignon, gets the impression that something is rotten in French political culture. Let’s take the debate at face-value. A young Muslim woman joins the NPA [New Anti-Capitalist Party]. She obviously [...]
Pakistan’s first ever Fashion Week took birth this November in Karachi with a bang as 32 of Pakistan Fashion’s very best showcased their creations an the 4 days long glittering event.
