Top 5 Posts of the Week
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Ezdihar Abdulmula is currently campaigning for the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to extend its 2 year preliminary rule of allo...
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Morocco's legendary athlete wants to ensure women assert themselves on international stage By Alaric Gomes Dubai: She is considered t...
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Muslim - Origin Olympians Invisible in the Spotlight by Samia Serageldin No, not the Egyptian silver medalist fencer Alaa AbdelKassem; not ...
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Turkey's Nazmiye Muslu broke the world and Paralympic records to take gold ahead of silver medallist Zhe Cui of China
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By Jeré Longman Christophe Ena/Associated Press- The Badminton World Federation says women playing at the elite level must wear dresses or...
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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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