Source: USA Today BY Sara M Moniuszko From pageants to print — hijab-wearing Halima Aden is breaking beauty boundaries. Aden, 19, is the cover star of Allure’sJuly issue, which celebrates American […]
Source: Washington Post By Rochelle Terman Are Muslims inherently misogynist? Many Americans seem to think so. Public opinion data reveal anxiety about whether Islam is compatible with Western values. A […]
Source: Washington Post By Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner June 17 BERLIN — Inside the red-brick building that now houses the German capital’s newest and perhaps most unusual mosque, Seyran […]
Source: Religion News Service By Josephine McKenna | June 15, 2017 VATICAN CITY (RNS) Several progressive Catholic groups are launching an initiative aimed at giving lay Catholics and clergy across […]
Source: Huffington Post “Anti-Sharia” rallies will take place in nearly 30 U.S. states on Saturday, according to the group spearheading the effort. ACT for America, a national grassroots anti-Muslim […]
Source: Time By Katie Reilly When Kathrine Switzer crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 1967, it was remarkable because she was a woman — the first to run […]
Source: The Washington Post By Abigail Hauslohner June 5 A Friday prayer service at Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque in Falls Church in December 2015. (Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency) A Virginia mosque has publicly condemned […]
JEDDAH — Manal Faisal Al Sharif has been appointed as the first Saudi female managing editor of the Arabic daily Albilad. It is one of the oldest newspapers in Saudi Arabia, having been established in April 1932. Read more….http://saudigazette.com.sa/saudi-arabia/albilad-appoints-manal-al-sharif-managing-editor/
Source: Dawn MOST men in the Middle East do not believe in women’s equality. This was what can be concluded from a recent survey conducted by UN Women. The 10,000 […]
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 […]
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: Time Malala Yousafzai May 12, 2017 Malala Yousafzai is an education activist from Pakistan. On May 13, Yousafzai will become one of five recipients of the 2017 International Ellis […]
Source: The Guardian By Amrit Dhillon in Narhada, Meerut As India debates the validity of a law allowing men to divorce by uttering three words, one woman is blazing a trail […]
Source: Guardian By Susan Carland, who is a lecturer in Monash University’s National Centre for Australian Studies Islam’s patriarchy and western feminism have said a lot. Now Muslim women who fight […]
Source: The Ne Yorker Zainab Ahmad has prosecuted thirteen international terrorist suspects for the American government. She hasn’t lost yet. By William Finnegan Zainab Ahmad had a small disaster in […]
India Supreme Court to commence hearing on triple talaq from tomorrow Source: Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court will commence hearing from tomorrow on a batch of pleas […]
Source: India TV News Terming AIMPLB an exclusive organisation of Sunni fundamentalists, Taslima Nasreen has advocated its abolition in the interest of the Muslim community itself. Terming All India Muslim […]
Source: Time By Samantha Cooney Serena Williams found out she was expecting her first child just two days before the Australian Open. In a TED Talk interview with Gayle King […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer April 26 The Rev. Michael-Ray Mathews, from left, Valarie Kaur and the Rev. angel Kyodo Williams attend a meeting of the Auburn Senior Fellows. […]
Source: theslateonline.com | By Ali Laughman – Asst. Copy Editor ‘United In Verse’ brings students together through poetry “United in Verse,” a program to join the many languages that are spoken on Shippensburg University’s campus with poetry, was held in the Cora L. Grove Spiritual Center on April 18. Robert Lesman, associate professor […]