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Dear sportswomen and activists, We from DISCOVER FOOTBALL have taken it upon ourselves to promote intercultural understanding and equality ... -
by Jasbir Authi, Birmingham Mail A Muslim female cricket coach has been presented with the RBS Asian Woman of Achievement in Sport Awa... -
This report is the first in a series on the situation of women's sport in Iran to be published by Small Media during the London 2012...
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A year after putting her competitive basketball career on hold over a headscarf ban, a Muslim player is considering taking her case to Switz...
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Mohammad Younis Khan Government Degree College # 2 Dera Ismail Khan, K.P.K Email: yunskhan@hotmail.com Dr Asif Jamil Institute of E...
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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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