The Treatment of Widows In Islam
Nila AhmadWomen’s Section 23rd June 2025 © Shutterstock Nila Ahmad, USA Today marks International Widow’s Day, ratified by the United Nations to bring attention to the difficulties many widows and their […]
Grief, Isolation & Mental Health: A Special Interview with His Holiness, Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
28th August 2019 By Syed Amer Safir Isolation is a pressing issue for the world today. 7.2% of European Union citizens (over 30 million people) were found to be socially […]
Widows of Iraq’s war pick up the threads of fragmented lives
By Reuters – May 13,2019 -JORDAN TIMES Women sew clothes at Waladi textile factory, part of which was destroyed by the war, in Mosul, Iraq, on May 5 (Reuters photo) […]
More Honey, More Money: Iraqi MP Wants to Pay Men for Polygamy
© AFP 2017/ STR MIDDLE EAST 17.03.2017 An Iraqi MP has proposed reducing the number of widows in the country by providing financial incentives for polygamous marriages. © AFP 2017/ […]
Divorced and widowed Saudi women to get greater legal powers: newspaper
Source: Reuters Saudi Arabia will let divorced women and widows manage family affairs without approval from a man or a court order, a state-aligned newspaper said on Wednesday, a […]
The dilemma of Kashmir's half-widows
Decades of conflict have produced many ‘half-widows’ whose husbands have disappeared but are not declared deceased. Decked by thick deodar forests, terraced corn fields, apple orchards and jagged mountains, the […]
The dilemma of Kashmir’s half-widows
Decades of conflict have produced many ‘half-widows’ whose husbands have disappeared but are not declared deceased. Decked by thick deodar forests, terraced corn fields, apple orchards and jagged mountains, the […]
Widowhood: A life interrupted
Dawn.com: Faiza Mirza. “I always felt different because everywhere I go people either give me sympathetic looks or are scared that I will bring bad luck. But the first time I actually felt betrayed was when one of my sisters was getting married. I was treated like an outcast by […]