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BY: SHIREEN AHMED Samia Yusuf Omar was an aspiring middle distance runner from Somalia. Her untimely death at sea in April 2012 cut shor... -
Kazakhstan is hosting an international tournament in women's boxing. Four members of the national boxing team of Azerbaijan - Azi... -
Authors: Hazel Maxwell a ; Tracy Taylor a Published in: European Sport Management Quarterly , Volume 10 , Issue 4 September 2010 , pages ...
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A new ruling that requires female badminton players to wear skirts on court is causing unease among players as they prepare to adopt the new...
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Nurcan Taylan Turkish weightlifter Nurcan Taylan has won three gold medals in the 24th European Weightlifting Championship in Kazan, Russ...
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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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