sister-hood is an award-winning digital magazine spotlighting the diverse voices of women of Muslim heritage.
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Zainah Anwar is the director of Musawah, a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family. She was also a founding member and former executive director of Sisters in Islam, a Malaysian non-governmental organization working on women’s rights…
Cups of crimson wine are circling in rounds of dance If the beloved is glimpsed this party abounds in dance God has made this believed peerless in my view Everything before my eyes resounds in dance – Ma Laqa Bai…
Safiya Khalid is the first Somali-American, the first refugee and the youngest person to be elected to the council of Lewiston, the second largest city in Maine, US. You’re the first Somali-American to be elected to Lewiston Council. What does…
Sister Fa is a rapper and activist on a mission to eradicate FGM from her native Senegal, where nearly a quarter of women aged 15 to 49 have fallen victim to this harmful practice. In this short film for Al…
Leesa Gazi is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, playwright, theatre director and actress based in London. She is the concept developer, co-writer and performer of the theatre production Birangona: Women of War with the Komola Collective theatre group, which she later…
This week there has occurred in this city a most extraordinary event, one absolutely unprecedented in the history of the Sultans. The Grand Signior Suleiman has taken himself as his Empress a slave woman from Russia. There is great talk…
With a royal blow, she tore away the veil; She showed her face’s sun from behind the screen. The lioness showed so much force that brave men bent low before her. — Amir Khusrau Raziya Sultan was the Sultan of…
Interview with Azadeh Moaveni Azadeh Moaveni is a journalist, writer, and academic who has been covering the Middle East for nearly two decades. Her latest book Guest House for Young Widows explores the lives of young women drawn towards Syria…
There is no community in which the rays of civilisation have shone forth – in whatever era this may be – where women did not have the greater hand and the greater due, as is perfectly obvious to anyone who…
This is part two of our interview with Dr. Azza Karam. Part one can be found here.Dr. Azza Karam serves as the senior advisor on social and cultural development at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). She is the first…
Men claim they have superior intelligence, saying there have been more men of genius than women. They forget that only when people use their gifts do they develop. That is why poor men who have spent their lives as cooks…
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