It has long been believed that a man named Cudjo Lewis was the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the United States. Now a researcher at Newcastle University in Britain says she has discovered testimony from someone who may have lived even longer — a woman named Redoshi. The...
Zahid Mukhtar, Pakistan based photographer shows the powerful rural women working in the fields. #Genderequality #BalanceforBetter #IWD2019
As Dilmun from the ages, Reveals its special place, We witness history’s pages, Unveiled as pearls with grace. The waters that combined us, Surrounds our separate source, In boats that rode to Tylos, And trades along their course. This island’s Gulf location, Bequeaths a choice terrain, For...
WHEN SABYN JAVERI recently launched her book Hijabistan (Harper; 224 pages; Rs399) at the Karachi Literature Festival, a few of the attendees were disappointed. They felt that they had gotten a raw deal, having bought the book assuming it was stories about women who wear the hijab. Instead, only a few of...
(Photo: Shutterstock) Korto (not her real name), 46, is a nurse from Liberia. She is also a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM). Korto told Muslim World Today of the harrowing ordeal: “I underwent type two FGM. I was eight years old. My maternal grandmother excised me. The...
