San Diego: A Muslim-American woman who was removed from a plane in San Diego last spring sued Southwest Airlines on Thursday, alleging she was discriminated against because she was wearing a head cover. Irum Abbasi, a psychology graduate student at San Jose State University who is a US citizen, filed the lawsuit in federal court […]
Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) — Whether it’s as activists or politicians, artists or business leaders, women in the Middle East are stepping into the spotlight as never before. read more
By WALAA HAWARI | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: A group of Saudi businesswomen is campaigning for all government departments to scrap the requirement for a male legal representative when processing paperwork and other related business. The Commerce Ministry has already agreed to change its rules after the campaigners started their initiative […]
Source: Qantara The women of Saudi Arabia will be allowed to vote for the first time in 2015. Why not already today in the current local elections? Abdelmoula Boukhraiss discussed this topic with the well-known Saudi Arabian civil rights activist and journalist Abdul Aziz Al-Khamis in London Why aren’t […]
A Saudi woman sentenced to be lashed 10 times for defying the country’s ban on female drivers has had her punishment overturned by the king. The woman, named as Shaima Jastaina and believed to be in her 30s, was found guilty of driving without permission in Jeddah in July. Her […]
Cairo: Saudi activists say a court has sentenced a Saudi woman with 10 lashes for defying the kingdom’s ban on women driving. read more
Kenya’s Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai has died in Nairobi while undergoing cancer treatment. She was 71. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for promoting conservation, women’s rights and transparent government – the first African woman to get the award. read more
RIYADH — Saudi King Abdullah announced on Sunday he was giving women the right to vote and run in municipal elections, the only public polls in the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom. He also announced that women would have the right to join the all-appointed Shura (consultative) Council, in an address opening […]
By ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Women will join Shoura Council in the next session, and they will also be allowed to contest and vote in the next municipal elections, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah said while addressing Shoura Council on Sunday. King Abdullah announced that women would be […]
NAtional Post: On Monday, three Muslim women spoke at the Heliconian Hall in downtown Toronto at an event titled “Islamism’s war against women.” Journalist and activist Raheel Raza argued that the legal code known as sharia has no basis in religion – but rather is a political artifice created as […]
By BARBARA FERGUSON, LIFE.STYLE@ARABNEWS.COM American Muslims are the country’s most ethnically and racially diverse faith group. In the Washington DC area, the Muslim population is relatively large and made up of many young, short-term globe-trotters, student and embassy types who are looking to gather and network. Outside Washington, in the […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: A Saudi woman secondary school teacher in Jubail has won an international award for the innovative educational methods she presented during the annual Partners in Learning Middle East and Africa Forum held in Jordan recently. Noura Aldowaikh of the Secondary School in […]
By WALAA HAWARI | ARAB NEWS Published: Sep 14, 2011 23:04 Updated: Sep 14, 2011 23:04 RIYADH: Saudi women have voiced reservations against recruiting domestic helpers from Morocco as suggested by the chairman of the Saudi recruitment committee. This is due to an old belief that Moroccan women use black […]
Source / Credit: Al Jazeera Turkey’s elections resulted in an increase in the number of women in the 550-seat parliament from 48 to 78. At 14 per cent, the proportion of women in the new parliament is higher than in at least two European Union states, Romania and Cyprus, according […]
By ABDULLAH AL-MOALLAMI | AL-MADINAH I am the woman … listen to me. Listen to the purr of my engine … it is starting. I am a woman fighting for the right, and I let the flag of the truth flutter high. I’m the woman … I know that you […]
BACKGROUND Ever since the renaissance or the beginning of the enlightenment era in Europe and its consequent influence on the rest of the world, equality of genders or otherwise has been the most sensitive and debated topic. Medieval thoughts of many cultures and religions advocated superiority of men over women. […]
Source: Qantara Author: Leila Ahmed Ever since the attacks of 9/11, feminists in the West have increasingly used the theme of the oppression of women in Islam as justification for war and domination. This strategy of using this rhetoric of “saving the women” in the name of “civilization” is an […]
Source / Courtesy: Star Tribune By Imran Hayee ‘It’s a scorching day, aren’t you feeling warm in this?” These polite words touched our ears when my wife and I entered the grocery store on one of the few hot summer days in Duluth. My wife was wearing a head scarf and […]
Al-Muslimat: A new program series Al-Muslimat (Women submitting to the Will of Allah) by Lajna Imaillah Canada and a presentation of Muslim Television Ahmadiyya Canada. In this episode the role of Muslim women is discussed in the context of the Western world.
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: More than 1,000 women have applied for 20 vacancies in Saudi Arabian Airlines’ IT department in a single day when the company started receiving applications on Monday. An official from the company expected a huge number of women to apply for the limited number of jobs […]