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Posted by samya on 25 Nov 2016 / 0 Comment
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Haela Kalawi is a Syrian mother, faced all kinds of difficulties during the Syrian Civil War. But she found empowerment through work.

The Turkish government has rolled back on a bill that would indefinitely suspend the sentences of men who had sex with underage girls, provided that they married them afterwards,

Amaiya Zafar is a Muslim girl who wasn’t allowed to box in a hijab, because her outfit was declared a violation of uniform regulations by International Boxing Association so her opponent shared victory with her.

“Heaven Will Wait” is a film based so carefully upon sociological research perhaps inevitably ends up feeling didactic; France’s education minister has said that the film’s effort to portray the mindset and motivations of young French women drawn to jihad does a “service to the public.”

Leila al-Qobbi, who at times was denied career opportunities for disability, has now become Saudi Arabia’s first blind female lawyer.

Canada suddenly has its first hijab-wearing news anchor on commercial television. Meet Ginella Massa.

Since the US presidential victory of Donald Trump, reports have flooded in of an increase in Islamophobia on the streets of the USA. Realising this, 24-year-old Muslim woman Zaineb Abdulla has started teaching basic self-defence classes in Chicago.

As of 2017, the hijab is in. The “1F9D5 Person With Headscarf,” designed by Alephandra Messer will be part of Unicode’s official emoji release, announced on Nov. 12, along with 55 others.


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