No Women. No Play. is holding a concert in DuPont Circle on July 31st from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, in effort to raise awareness concerning women’s rights violations in Saudi Arabia.

As the Holy Month of Ramadan approaches, many Muslims soccer players are faced with a dilemma. Naturally, fasting takes a toll on the body, fatiguing it and lowering its performance level. Thus, footballers are faced with a tough decision, sacrificing their work performance or their religious obligations. Last year, the club team FSV Frankfurt gave three players a warning for fasting, as their contracts contained a clause stating that fasting was not permitted without permission from the club. 

What’s wrong with chewing on glass or swallowing a couple a bursts of flaming fire? For Saudi Arabian entertainer Maher al-Luqman, it’s just another day at the ‘office’. He has made a career out of performing death-defying feats in front of a live audience. Al-Luqman along with twelve other performers make up “Luqman’s Altineen”. The group of entertainers travels throughout the kingdom looking for opportunities to perform on stage.

The Real World, launched in 1992, is MTV’s longest running reality show yet. It shows the lives of young adults trying to enjoy their youth and face the many “Real World,” problems that come along their way, like who’s hooking up with who, who drank too much the night before, pranks they play on each other, and finally the dramatic romances. 

By Maryam Khan
Just what we need in the Muslim world, another great American export...yes thats right, Martha Stewart is spreading her cookie baking ways to our people. 

In reaction to the global uproar surrounding Facebook’s recent allowance of a “Prophet Muhammad Cartoon Day”, several Muslims have formed an offshoot of the popular social networking site aimed at providing Muslims and “Peaceful people from other religions” with a virtual “safe space” in which to network. MillatFacebook.com seeks to provide all the functions of Facebook - minus the massive inventory of apps/games, and of course, minus the religious insensitivity. As the founders put it: “The objective is to provide a platform for all Muslims and nice, decent and sophisticated people of all religions and faiths, to come together and make a network. They should interact in a way that is socially responsible by providing them all the freedom of expression, however respecting each others’ sentiments, sensitivities and beliefs.”

You’ve probably heard dozens of jokes about the driving techniques of American taxi drivers, some true and some mere fodder for a couple of laughs. But an ocean away in Sharjah there ain’t no one laughing at the poor state of taxi services, run by Sharjah Transport, in the rich Gulf emirate. In a recent crackdown by the transport authority, to test the driving skills of its taxi drivers, a whopping 18% failed miserably and are considered to be risks on the road.

In a stunning display of sense and style, the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance have taken the bold step of banning the mullet.  Yes, the mullet shall live in Iran no more!  And truly, I say bravo to them for this choice.  After watching several hours of American TV and countless repeats of, “COPS,” they must have correctly learned that nothing good can come from this hairstyle.  Of course, the ministry has placed the hairstyle within a broad category of unacceptable “un-Islamic Western hairstyles”, but I can see what you’re doing, Iranian Ministry of Culture… you’re now on my style watch list you sly minxes.

Throngs of fans crowded former boxing champion (and convert) Mike Tyson this week, as he took a spiritual tour of Mecca, while performing Umrah, that ended in tears: tears of awakening. Tyson toured the requisite sites, finally crying at the Prophet’s Mosque, saying: “I couldn’t resist shedding tears when I came to know that I was in one of the gardens of paradise.”

There ain’t nothing like the freedom of the airwaves to not only report the news and play music, but also to unite people under a similar flag. That’s what a group of female entrepreneurs in Palestine are learning after recently launching their own female-geared Arabic radio station right in the West Bank city of Ramallah.