Category: Woman's Voice

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Shamsia Hassani – Kabul’s Female Graffiti Expert

Shamsia Hassani – Kabul’s Female Graffiti Expert

Walk down an alley in Kabul, Afghanistan and you might spot a painting of a sharp-featured woman in a blue burqa on the side of a building. That's t [...]
Ginella Massa – Hijab-clad News Anchor Makes History in Canada

Ginella Massa – Hijab-clad News Anchor Makes History in Canada

Toronto: Ginella Massa, a news reporter for CityNews in Toronto, recently anchored her first newscast in Canada, becoming the first hijabi Muslim to [...]
Muslim Woman Elected Kolhapur Mayor

Muslim Woman Elected Kolhapur Mayor

Haseena Faras (61) of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was elected the mayor of Kolhapur in Maharashtra on December 8. She stood for municipal e [...]
29 Women Nominated to Saudi Shoura Council

29 Women Nominated to Saudi Shoura Council

Kawthar Al-Arbash, Mody AlKhalaf and Leena K. Almaeena, all named as new members of Saudi Arabia's Shoura Council by King Salman. Riyadh: S [...]

Haseena Abdulla – Woman Psychotherapist Wins International Laurels

Mangaluru: Haseena Abdulla, from Karnataka's Dakshina Kannada  district, recently received an international certificate in transactional analysis psy [...]

Nasreen Al-Issa – ‘Know Your Rights’ App for Saudi Women

Nasreen Al-Issa, a corporate lawyer in Saudi Arabia, launched "Know Your Rights" recently, after realising many women did not know many of their basi [...]

Safa Al Hashem – Kuwait’s Lone Women’s Voice in Parliament

Fourteen women put their names forth and campaigned for Kuwaitis to elect them into the upcoming parliament, but only one woman "“ Safa Al Hashem "“ p [...]
Indian Muslim Feminists:  We Are Reformists Not Traitors

Indian Muslim Feminists: We Are Reformists Not Traitors

As the debate on triple talaq in one sitting continues, a number of Indian Muslim organisations headed by male clergy refuse to even sit and have a ci [...]
Muslim Woman Elected to Minnesota House

Muslim Woman Elected to Minnesota House

Omar, who wears a hijab, walked a long and difficult path to election, and won in a year where Muslims faced a barrage of hate crimes and threats. [...]

Muslim Women Can Get Protection under Sharia

Female reformers were employing the Sharia to argue for Muslim women's equality. One of the most influential was the ruler of the princely state of [...]
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