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BY: MINIVAN NEWS The Maldives’ women’s basketball team refused to play without their headscarves, forfeiting the International B...
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Starting Small – Aiming HighBy Samar Araj Mousa Why a girls’ team? A girls’ national soccer team under occupation! The founders of the team,... -
How do conservative countries handle scantily clad Olympic athletes? By Kara Hadge Posted Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, at http://www.slate.com/... -
PARIS, Jan 21, 2009 (AFP) - The Gulf state of Qatar will launch a women’s Tour event next month, bringing together 15 teams, including six n... -
Posted: February 1st, 2013 by the US Embassy in UK Author: irc U.S. Fencing’s Ibtihaj Muhammad demonstrates her fencing jacket at ...
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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
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