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For Muslim women, equality means reforming family laws

Family law and the female body

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Opinions

Compartmentalizing

Compartmentalizing — even writing the word requires placing your concentration in boxy syllables! Yes — placing things in compartments, labelling them with a neat, unequivocal tag. When you put items in boxes, you have to be clear. You cannot have,…

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Opinions

My London will survive

Day 62 in the Age of Trump. Yesterday my London was attacked. Why and who is still unknown. But the ‘how’ was plain for all to see. We are in the age of extremism – and that means entrepreneurial terrorism…

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Experiences

Take care of yourself this Ramadan

Ramadan always brings a mix of emotions for me – relief, excitement, reflection and anxiety that I won’t be good enough to fulfil the requirements that come with the Muslim holy month. Ramadan is predominantly known as a time for…

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Opinions

Lessons to learn

At Batley Grammar School, a British teacher allegedly showed a caricature of Prophet Muhammad in a lesson on blasphemy. This was as a part of the religious studies curriculum. This sparked a controversy between Muslim parents and the school’s administrators….

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Interviews

Towards a sustainable peace in Afghanistan

Interview: Heela Yoon Heela Yoon is the founder of Afghan Youth Ambassadors for Peace, an organisation for young Afghan women peacebuilders. What drew you into peace work? I grew up in Afghanistan where there is constant war and conflict. Most…

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Inspirations

Nawal el Saadawi 1931-2021

The oppression of women is historical. We have to liberate women economically, socially, psychologically, physically, religiously. – Nawal el Saadawi Nawal el Saadawi was one of the foremost, and most controversial, feminists in the Arab world, whose fierce and uncompromising…

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Experiences

The predator and the police

I still remember the day like it was yesterday. My mother had been diagnosed with late stage cancer. I was feeling utterly disillusioned with the world. I asked my husband to drive us to an isolated beach, somewhere far away…

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Have a child – or remain one

Childlessness in Muslim societies In a book explaining Islam to children and teenagers it stated that it is the duty of Muslim women to be mothers. I was surprised that the author, a non-Muslim, had grasped what few of us…

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Inspirations

Khadija Gayibova 1893-1938

‘I’m an artist. My musical world is in mourning…Even if they send me into exile, I won’t be destroyed. I’ll set up a music club and dance, sing and play.’ – Khadija Gayibova Khadija Gayibova was a the first professional…

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