The past 12 months have seen a series of notable successes for African women – with two Nobel Peace prizes, a second president and the first female head of the African Union Commission. For the BBC’s Africa Debate programme, Malawian women’s rights campaigner Jessie Kabwila asks if Africa’s women are […]
The NewYork Times: by Nicholas D. Kristof. Twice the Taliban threw warning letters into the home of Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old Pakistani girl who is one of the world’s most persuasive advocates for girls’ education. They told her to stop her advocacy — or else. […]
Gunmen have wounded a 14-year-old rights activist who has campaigned for girls’ education in the Swat Valley in north-west Pakistan. Malala Yousafzai was attacked on her way home from school in Mingora, the region’s main town. She came to public attention in 2009 by writing a diary for BBC Urdu […]
Furniture store giant Ikea has been criticised for deleting images of women from the Saudi version of its catalogue, a move the company says it regrets. Comparing the Swedish and Saudi versions of the Ikea catalogue, Swedish newspaper Metro showed that women had been airbrushed out of otherwise identical pictures […]
Kano: Saudi authorities have deported 150 female Nigerian pilgrims and detained another 1,000 because they came unaccompanied by men. Read more
29-year-old Muslim woman named culture minister of Norway – The first ever Muslim minister in the Norwegian Cabinet is Hadia Tajik of Pakistani origin, who was handed the culture portfolio […]
Credit: The Local Saturday’s Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said it had seen the letter written by Justice Minister Sabien Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and Family Minister Kristina Schröder. “We do not see a legally binding guideline from the European Union for a quota as the right way,” the letter says. Such a quota would, […]
Manama: An Indian school in Kuwait was told to re-admit a Pakistani student after it refused to admit her for wearing a veil. A source told local Arabic daily Al Rai that the girl’s father was shocked that the private school had rejected her admission because she started wearing a veil. […]
RIYADH: WALAA HAWARI ARABNEWS Thursday 13 September 2012 Prince Sultan bin Salman, chairman of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities, was a guest at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs knowledge meeting recently. Prince Sultan, who is also the chairman of the Disabled Children’s Association (DISCA). said: “Women play a […]
About this ad Islamic exhibit at BYU aids understanding By William L. Hamblin and Daniel C. Peterson For the Deseret News Published: Saturday, Sept. 8 2012 5:00 a.m. MDT Included in the exhibit “Beauty and Belief” are the artistic writings found in a manuscript copy of the Quran. Most of […]
I believe that when you educate a woman, you educate a nation – because that one woman will share what she has learnt with other women and pass it on to the generations below hers. This is why it’s so important that women are taught how to integrate technology into […]
What Women’s Equality Day has to do with Islam ISLAM AUGUST 28, 2012 BY: DINA MALKI Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation members participated in last week’s celebration of Women’s Equality Day at Dallas […]
Kot Chutta, Pakistan (CNN) — From behind the steel bars of his jail cell, Muhammad Ismail described with uncanny ease how he shot and killed his wife, his mother-in-law, and sister-in-law. “The first shot hit the side of her body,” Ismail said. “I left her there and went next door […]
Yemeni women say equal rights are compatible with Islam Inroads to equality hindered by accusations that feminists are acting ‘un-Islamic’ While many nations in the Middle East were reborn the […]
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: Huffington Post By Engy Abdelkader, who is a new mother, attorney and member of the American Muslim community. In its current form, what we know as Mother’s Day, is a […]