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BY SCOTT FOWLER sfowler@charlotteobserver.com If you haven’t heard of Ibtihaj Muhammad yet, you will if you watch much of the 2016 S...
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Hundreds of young Muslim girls have flocked to swimming lessons in Copenhagen's immigrant-heavy Tingbjerg district after Hovedstadens S...
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Lida Fariman competed in the Olympics (1992, 1996) as a shooter, but wore the traditional Islamic robe and hijab (head-cover). In the Austra... -
By Sertaç SEHLIKOGLU During 2012 London Olympics, heated debates arose around the question of Muslim women’s participation to Olympics. Some...
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By STEPHEN WILSON In this undated photo provided by Reema Abdullah, members of the Jeddah Kings United all female team attend footbal...
Contributors
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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