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Features of sports in Islam are many. In fact, many Islamic obligations include physical activities in addition to spiritual activities and ...
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By Laura Gottesdiener Badminton is soon to be the new women’s tennis -- at least according the Badminton World Federation, which took the f...
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JORDAN sent out a stern warning to their chief title-rivals in the Women's Football Cup Arabia 2010 last night with a 20-0 drubbing of I...
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Nurcan Taylan Turkish weightlifter Nurcan Taylan has won three gold medals in the 24th European Weightlifting Championship in Kazan, Russ... -
16 September, 2009 -- The World Taekwondo Federation’s (WTF) enlightened policy of encouraging women’s participation will be highlighted du...
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Sertaç Sehlikoglu (Blog Owner & Author): Sertaç Sehlikoglu created MWIS blog in May 2008 and has been blogging since then. She is a research fellow in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Her academic interests include leisure, sports, body, agency, subject formation and female normativity. Sehlikoglu is a women's rights activist - Contact her Via muslimwomeninsports(et)gmail.com
Shireen Ahmed (Author): Shireen Ahmed is a frontline worker in Social Services, writer and footballer living in Toronto. Her passions include advocacy, her amazing family, following Football Club Barcelona , coffee and her two cats. She writes about her experiences in football and sport in her blog “Tales of a Hijabi Footballer” at www.footybedsheets.tumblr.com. You can follow her at @_shireenahmed_
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