Islamic feminism
The west misunderstands Muslims on many things, and the rights of women and their ill-treatment is one of them. It is a fact that in the recent past years […]
‘I Am A White Western Woman—I Converted From Christianity To Islam’
Source: Newsweek By Monika Holc, who is a marketing manager who has spent years working in the corporate sector and at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Monika recently launched Bee Like […]
The police forced me to remove my hijab. I took them to court – and won
Many people have congratulated me on my victory – but what victory? Wearing a hijab is my right, one I should never have been made to fight for Asiyah 2 […]
Boris Johnson defends comments about veiled Muslim women at launch
Source: The Scotsman Boris Johnson defended comments comparing veiled Muslim women to letterboxes and refused to clarify his past illegal drug use as he launched his leadership campaign with a […]
Quebec’s religious symbol ban targets minorities in the name of secularism
Source: The Guardian By Martin Patriquin Bill 62 is the fruit of over a decade of institutionalized animus directed towards the province’s religious minorities The government of Quebec, Canada’s second-most populous […]
International Women’s Day – Muslim Ladies
by: Sairah Yassir-Deane and Cem Nizamoglu To celebrate Women’s Day on 8th March, no way is better than reproducing a collection of articles written by FSTC scholars and associates on the […]
‘Muslim women are stuck between Islamophobes and Islamic fundamentalists’
Source: Open Democracy By Nandini Archer 7 From France to Malaysia, Muslim women’s rights activists are challenging those who ask them to ‘choose between being a Muslim and a feminist’. […]
Begum Rokeya: A trailblazer in women’s rights / Celebrating the iconic activist on her 138th birth anniversary
Mitali Jahan Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, the legendary Bengali writer-activist whose leadership had transformed the lives of thousands of people in this region and beyond, was born on […]
Outstanding Muslim Women’s Contribution to Islamic Civilisation
Women’s Contribution to Classical Islamic Civilisation: Science, Medicine and Politics 20216. by: Salim Al-Hassani While there are numerous works on the role of Muslim women in jurisprudence (fiqh) and […]
The High Status of Women in Islam
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih V(aba) It’s a stereotype too common to mention: Islam oppresses women and the religion is inherently hostile to the desires, needs and concerns […]
Early Women of Science, Technology, Medicine and Management
By: Salim Al-Hassani This article is a paper submitted to and presented at WISE 2018: World Muslim Women’s Summit & Exhibition, organised by TASAM, Istanbul, Turkey, from 28th Feb – […]
Brushes with history: Saudi artist Hend Al-Mansour’s quest to reframe the story of women’s roles in the Arab world
ELIZABETH MACBRIDE | Published — Friday 23 March 2018 Hend Al-Mansour came to the US 21 years ago as a physician, then gave up medicine for art. Her work […]
International Women’s Day
By: Sairah Yassir-Deane and Cem Nizamoglu To celebrate Women’s Day on 8th March, no way is better than reproducing a collection of articles written by FSTC scholars and associates on the achievements of women in Muslim Heritage in various fields. We focused in our work on this topic of contributions made by women in […]
Erdoğan slams bigoted clerics degrading women
DAILY SABAH ANKARA First Lady and President Erdoğan poses with women on the sidelines of the event held at the Presidential Complex. ‘Islam is updated over time, you can’t […]
As Muslim women we don’t need you to speak for us, and we don’t need to be saved
Ghena Krayem We face an ongoing struggle to be heard. This denies us the very agency that is claimed we don’t have in the first place Fri 23 Feb 2018 […]
‘As a Muslim, as a Canadian, as a woman’: writers share first-hand stories
Azmina Kassam explores issues of identity in her personal essay in ‘The Muslimah Who Fell to Earth’ By Clare Hennig, CBC Posted: Sep 18, 2017 Azmina Kassam is one of the contributors of ‘The Muslimah Who Fell to Earth’ and she talked to CBC’s host of North by Northwest Sheryl MacKay […]
Thanks to this Afghan woman, 6,000 imams have taken gender-sensitivity training
Source: The Christian Science Monitor By Maija Liuhto, Contributor Jamila Afghani, who has battled discrimination since childhood, uses Islam to empower women in Afghanistan. She is committed to continuing the […]
17 Muslim American Women Who Made America Great In 2016
12/09/2016 Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post If there was ever a year that needed Muslim women to show the world just how great America already is, 2016 was it. Muslim Americans continue to face rising intolerance and Islamophobia as a result, in part, of aggressive attacks on their […]
I Planned to Destroy Islam, I Became Muslim
Source: Revert2IslamToday.com Sister Shariffa Carlos was being groomed by individuals in high Government positions in US to study, learn and then go to Egypt to destroy Islam by instigating the […]
Religious commonalities more important than differences: Sunni female governor
Source: Tehran Times By Naghmeh Mizanian December 13, 2016 TEHRAN — Different branches of Islam should pay attention to their notable commonalities rather than little differences, says Ms. Homeyra Rigi, […]