Here is the new advertisement and introduction video of Muslim Women's Sport Foundation. MWSF is a London-based organization promoting Muslim women's participation in recreation and professional sports.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIKchKM7vtI
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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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