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Soccer News By Kristina Puck and Peter Auf der Heyde Sep 3, 2009 Hamburg - When Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho, who has referred to himself...
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By KAREN LEIGH Women weight lifters in the United Arab Emirates, like Amna Al Haddad, are competing in what is thought o...
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Apparently, the veil becomes the most symbolic issue when it comes to "Muslim Women" even in sports news. I am not very comfortabl... -
By Aline Bannayan, Jordan Times, Amman Apr. 22--AMMAN -- Jeddah United (JU), the first Saudi women's club basketball team, is in Amman t...
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By Arwa ABURAWA As the excitement and glow of the London Olympics 2012 fade, Arwa Aburawa looks back on the media's unhealthy focus on h...
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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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