Ahmadi Muslim Women organize Qur’an Exhibition in Alberta
Bringing Communities Closer in Calgary By Mrs Amtul Noor Daud Canada A month long Quran Exhibition at the Red Deer Public Library , Alberta was organized by Lajna Imā’Illah Calgary […]
Interfaith Dialogue by Ahmadi Women in Mount Royal University, Calgary
Bringing Communities Closer in Calgary Report by Mubarka Kaleem Ahmad, Calgary Ahmadi Muslim women in Calgary NW organized 1st Annual World Religions Conference at Mount Royal University on Thursday October […]
Saudi women put their foot down to defy driving ban
The Independent: by Deema Almashabi, Glen Carey – A group of Saudi Arabian women plan to protest today against the world’s only ban on female drivers. Organisers are urging women across the country to take to the roads. The group, named the “26th October Women’s Driving Campaign,” called on the […]
Why Muslim Women Are Key to Tackling Extremism
Huff Post: By Samina Ali: Curator, Muslima: Muslim Women’s Arts & Voices As we commemorate the 12th anniversary of 9/11 today, we continue to face turbulence, extremism and hostility between faiths, […]
Tanya Khan – Life Lived for Interfaith Hormony
Lives Lived- Tanya Khan, 38 BY Judy Csillag The Globe and Mail Wife, mother, teacher, interfaith activist, spiritual angel. Born Aug. 3, 1975, in Edmonton, died Aug. 6, 2013, in […]
‘The glass ceiling is incredibly low for Muslim women’
Source: The Guardian Prejudice based on their religious clothing and faith is creating extra barriers for workers in the UK Muneera, a 19-year-old art student from London, wants to set […]
Qur’an offers panacea for modern problems
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR Published — Thursday 8 August 2013 Source: Arabnews http://arabnews.com/news/460618 There is an urgent need to spread the divine message of Qur’an in the modern world, which […]
Women and Islam in the middle ages
Source: ahranonline Beyond the stereo-typing of women and the misconception of Islamic beliefs, comes an enlightening study that puts women and Islam in one proper sentence What do we know […]
Using Islam to Combat Domestic Violence
Source: The Daily Beast – by Alaa MurabitLibyan women wear tape over their mouths during a December 2012 protest in Martyrs’ Square in Tripoli calling for more freedom of expression, greater transparency, and a more important role for the judiciary and the security forces. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty) Enlightenment Using Islam to Combat […]
Saudi businesswomen seek level-playing field
RIYADH: MD RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS STAFF Sunday 30 June 2013 A new set of proposals have been unveiled to encourage Saudi women’s business projects. Saudi businesswomen face a series […]
Video: Religious Teachings about Domestic Violence and Honor Killing
The Muslim speaker, Shanaz Tejani-Butt PhD, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, starts speaking at 48.3 minute mark. Additional Reading Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and […]
Hijab Legal Wars
The Muslim Times’ comment: We have modified the title of the news post Source: The Huffington Post Abercrombie Struggling To Prove Fired Woman’s Hijab Hurt Sales: Report Abercrombie & Fitch […]
Beautiful Muslim Women in History
YUSRA OWAIS (AMATULLAH) | JUNE 20, 2012 SubaibWebb.com What comes to your mind when I say, “A beautiful Muslim woman”? Many of us may think of a woman in hijab (headscarf) or modest attire. Hijab is indeed beautiful, but by thinking Islamic beauty is only because of hijab, we are […]
The World’s Muslims’ Poll and Women Rights
Source: Pew Research Center A new survey report looks at attitudes among Muslims in 39 countries on a wide range of topics, from science to sharia, polygamy to popular culture. The survey finds that overwhelming percentages of Muslims in many countries want Islamic law to be the official law of their land, […]
Switzerland: Alcohol abuse linked to domestic violence
Epigraph: O ye who believe! wine and the game of hazard and idols and divining arrows are only an abomination of Satan’s handiwork. So shun each one of them that you may […]
Saudi women to operate metro rail at PNU
RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO & ALVIN RELOX ARABNEWS Wednesday 8 May 2013 The driverless metro rail, to be operated by a team of only Saudi women inside the women’s school […]
Muslim Women and Integration – Oppressed in the Name of Islam?
Source: Qantara.de The majority of Germans regard Islam as misogynist. No other issue in the public debate on integration has evoked such bitter controversy among Germans. Nonetheless, the image of […]
Women elected speaker of Bangladesh’s parliament
courtesy: BBC News Women elected speaker of Bangladesh’s parliament Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury has close links with the governing Awami League party Bangladesh’s parliament has for the first time elected a woman, Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury, as speaker. Mrs Chowdhury is a member of the governing Awami League party and was […]
The Q&A: Samina Ali – Muslim women make some noise
THE International Museum of Women is an online showcase for art, stories and ideas about women’s issues to encourage social change around the world. Recently it launched an online exhibition […]
The words of God do not justify cruelty to women
Epigraph: Surely, men who submit themselves to God and women who submit themselves to Him, and believing men and believing women, and obedient men and obedient women and truthful men and truthful women, […]