Source: Dawn Prominent thinker Richard Dawkins stepped into yet another messy debate online when he tweeted “Islam needs a feminist revolution. It will be hard. What can we do to […]
Epigraph: “But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow […]
Source: The Guardian Thinktank report shows majority of 16 to 24-year-old UK Muslims disagree that ‘a husband’s job is to earn money, a wife’s is to look after the home […]
Brown Girl Magazine | By Nishi Fatima Posted: 06/24/2015 11:06 am EDT This article originally appeared on Brown Girl Magazine. Given the rise of hate crimes and misunderstandings that the […]
theguardian: by Simon Lewis — Influential group of monks also plans to encourage people to vote for candidates who ‘will not let our race and religion disappear’ in this year’s elections An influential group of Buddhist monks in Burma is proposing to ban Muslim schoolgirls from wearing headscarves, in the latest sign […]
The Huffington Post | By Carol Kuruvilla Posted: 06/17/2015 First lady Michelle Obama is promoting a new campaign called Let Girls Learn, with the goal of making sure young women […]
The Huffington Post | By Carol Kuruvilla Posted: 06/17/2015 First lady Michelle Obama is promoting a new campaign called Let Girls Learn, with the goal of making sure young women […]
Source: The Guardian: By Semanur Karaman With more female MPs than ever before and the success of a political party that supports women, Turkey is on the threshold of a […]
Huff Post: by Zianab bint Younus — Muslim women and the niqab are always a hot topic, always some good clickbait. There is always someone excited to go ‘behind the veil.’ Stock photosof ‘Muslim women’ and ‘niqab’ yield a plethora of images of kohl-eyed women wearing anything from an Afghan burka […]
Huff Post: by Zianab bint Younus — Muslim women and the niqab are always a hot topic, always some good clickbait. There is always someone excited to go ‘behind the veil.’ Stock photosof ‘Muslim women’ and ‘niqab’ yield a plethora of images of kohl-eyed women wearing anything from an Afghan burka […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL PublishedMay 26, 2015 Organized by Medyadoktoru Productions with the support of the Prime Ministry Promotion Fund, the “Şehr-i Medeniyet Istanbul” (Istanbul: The City of Civilization) fashion show, which introduces modern interpretations of Ottoman-era daily attire, is being held today at the Hilton Garden Inn in Istanbul. Fashion […]
Source: Egyptian Street By Dalia Gebrial, who is an Egyptian writer and journalist living in South-East London. Currently, she is particularly interested in raising awareness about the historical and current labor […]
Epigraph: Article 1. “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a […]
Source: BBC By Huda Jawad Why on earth would any girl abandon the liberties of a modern democracy to join the dark ages of IS? Huda Jawad attempts to offer […]
Epigraph: And We (Allah) have enjoined on man to be good to his parents. His mother bears him with pain, and brings him forth with pain. And the bearing of him […]
Epigraph: And We (Allah) have enjoined on man to be good to his parents. His mother bears him with pain, and brings him forth with pain. And the bearing of him […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Wednesday 6 May 2015 Thoraya Obaid has become the first woman to be appointed as the head of the human rights committee at the Shoura […]
Epigraph: The Prophet is nearer to the believers than their own selves, and his wives are as mothers to them. And blood relations are nearer to one another, according to the Book of Allah, than the rest of the believers from among the Helpers as well as the Emigrants, except […]
Source: Huffington Post | By Yasmina Blackburn I often get into debates with people about women in Islam. How we dress. How we don’t dress. What we think or don’t think […]
Epigraph: And when the she-camels, ten month pregnant, are abandoned, And when the beasts are gathered together in zoos, And when the seas are made to flow forth one into the […]