Top 5 Posts of the Week
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In 2002, The Globe and Mail asked columnist Sheema Khan to share her personal insights on Islam and Muslim life in the wake of 9/11. Of Hoc... -
MUSLIM girls in Bolton (UK) are to feature on Match of the Day — learning the art of judo! Bolton Wanderers Community Trust (BWCT) has b... -
124 athletes from 22 different cities of Turkey will be competing in 10 divisions of wrestling. Maximum number of athletes attended the game... -
by Eddie Rios Hayat Lambarki, athletics, Morocco. Nisrine Dandan, basketball, Lebanon. Brigitte and Marian Lacombe’s exhibit... -
BY: TAFLINE LAYLIN Egypt has certified the country’s first female dive master – a devout Muslim who refers to herself as a feminist . ...
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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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