Meet Second Muslim Female Pilot: Kaneez Fatima
Kaneez Fatima has become Kashmir’s second female pilot, with the 24-year-old Muslim lady now hired in Air India after completing her training. “Our family has struggled a lot to make this...
Women & Wellness
The Photos Challenging What a Muslim Woman Should Look Like
When Alia Youssef was in Grade 10, for one of her first real art projects, she depicted a Muslim woman looking at herself in the mirror happily and another image...
Two Muslim women are headed for Congress
IN HIS first presidential campaign, George W. Bush received 42% of the Muslim-American vote, compared with 31% for Al Gore. The 9/11 attacks, and the wars that followed, changed that...
Citing Compassion, Malaysian Women’s Rights Coalition Calls for Moratorium on Corporal Punishment after Lesbian Couple Caned in Public
KUALA LUMPUR - The Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG) is calling for the Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad and the Attorney General of Malaysia Tuan...
‘We’re going back to the essence of Islam’: The rise of women’s mosques in US and Europe
Relegated to the basement, silenced by the imam and barred from the front door, some Muslim women have had enough of male domination at the mosque and are setting up...
How Sania Maskatiya Found Her Way to New York Fashion Week
Designer Sania Maskatiya ventured out onto the prestigious runways of New York Fashion Week (NYFW) on September 10 and this is hardly breaking news. Anyone with even the slightest interest...
Why this filmmaker is putting Muslim women on mainstream television
We don’t often hear Muslim voices in mainstream media. Women Like Us is the TV show trying to change that as it celebrates the contributions of British Muslim women. The...
Memoirs of Disease and Disbelief
Is Lyme disease a feminist issue? It may sound ludicrous to ask this of a tick-borne infection that can usually be dispatched with a course of antibiotics. Yet its name...
'It is important to talk to a Muslim'
'For people who are fed on nothing else but the media, what were prejudices become facts of life.''What my neighbour may see as just news, for me is a source...
Six years in a sexless marriage taught me how badly we need to talk about sex
People always asked us why we didn’t have any kids. No one ever thought to ask if we'd consummated our marriage or not. I was born and raised in a...