When Brooklynite Linda Sarsour comes to Washington inauguration weekend as the co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington, it will be another landmark moment in her 15 years of public service fighting for Muslim rights. A controversial Melbourne billboard depicting two Muslim girls celebrating Australia Day that was taken down due to threats from far […]

In Lebanon, Syrian refugee girls participate in Girls Got IT, a weekend workshop that engages young women in technology and science. Despite all efforts to improve the life of young girls in Afghanistan, and enact protections for Afghan women and girls, invasive virginity tests are still being ordered by officials, compounding the trauma for women […]

The music video “Hwages” has been viewed more than 2 million times and has become the subject of widespread debate in Saudi Arabia as it touches on the role of women in society. BBC recently stirred controversy with a show called “Real Housewives of ISIS”. The sketch portraying British female members of ISAS in Syria […]

Romania’s president has rejected a proposal by the leftist party that won elections this month to appoint the country’s first female and first Muslim prime minister. Niloofar Rahmani, a 25 year old captain with the Afghan Air Force, said she would not be going back to Afghanistan as planned, because of ongoing threats against her, […]

In a surprise move, Romania’s largest political party nominated a woman from the country’s Tatar minority for prime minister on Wednesday. If she wins, she will be both the first Muslim and the first woman to hold the post. A women’s basketball tournament in Somalia was denounced and declared “un-Islamic” by the Somali Religious Council. […]

Naema, from Lahore, is the first female in her family to own a car and hold a job. She imagines herself as a modernist, and is featured by BBC as part of its 100 most inspiring women of 2016. Masooma Hasani, 18 years old woman from Afghanistan, loves skiing, but she has to go through […]

Tunisia’s youngest minister has a vision and is ready to lead. Middle East Eye met with Sayida Ounissi, Minister of Vocational Training and Employment in Tunisia, who reflects upon her position, the changing face of Ennahda and being a young woman in politics. Jordan is set to open a shelter for women at risk of […]

Halima Aden, a 19-year-old Somali-American became the first contestant in the Miss Minnesota beauty pageant to compete wearing a hijab and a burkini. 2M, a Moroccan television broadcaster, apologized for airing a segment that advised women on how to use makeup to cover up signs of domestic violence. SheFighter is the first self-defense academy for […]

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 […]

Zainab Salbi, An Iraqi American women’s right activists, has a new project. She will be travelling around the world to discover the third gender revolution, and stories about ISIS. The Zainab Salbi Project will be premiering on The Huffington Post. Despite the hopes raised by the Arab Spring five years ago, women in the Arab […]