{"id":224,"date":"2009-02-04T13:08:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T13:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2009\/02\/muslimah-media-watch.html"},"modified":"2009-02-04T13:08:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T13:08:52","slug":"muslimah-media-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2009\/02\/muslimah-media-watch.html","title":{"rendered":"Muslimah Media Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d like to highlight one of the essential blogs in the Islamsphere – Muslim Media Watch<\/a> (MMW). It’s a group weblog that tracks issues related to women and Islam, and features a broad stable of writers. One of the MMW editors, Fatemeh, does a weekly wrap-up of MMW posts at Talk Islam<\/a> that serves as an invaluable quick briefing. It’s a great site and everyone should be reading it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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