Women

VIDEO: STRIVE UK Women leading the Ummah

In April 2021 I was honoured to speak at this conference.   Muslim women often get pigeonholed into speaking about Women in Islam or gender issues.  This event broke open more space for Muslim women to discuss their politics and vision beyond this lens. Text from Strive UK: Women’s conference 2021: Inspiring #women

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They Hate Women Don’t They?

“It must be terrible having to wear all that,” a friend of mine was told last December as she attended a meeting to discuss the future of Afghanistan, particularly its women – “all that” being some baggy clothing and a headscarf. “Not particularly,” she retorted, putting an abrupt end both to the

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The World’s Women According to the UN

Arzu Merali provides a brief critique of UN literature compiled for the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, China, September 1995, based on a review of some of the agency literature she found there. Download the report here. The report gives examples of racist and Islamophobic imagery and text used

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