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.

–Crossposted from Tapped.