ELSEWHERE IN THE MUSLIM WORLD. The major east coast dailies have been on a bit of a roll over the past week when it comes to covering the changing (for good and for ill) status of women in the Muslim world. In addition to today’s awful news from Syria, there was Michael Slackman‘s front-pager from before the holiday on the Algerian women’s educational revolution — still worth a read — in The New York Times and Faiza Saleh Ambah‘s excellent Washington Post front-page round-up on the new abayas of Saudi Arabia and the slow weakening of Wahhabism.

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.