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Written by: James M. Dorsey Three French women’s organizations have expressed concern and disappointment with world soccer body FIFA’s en...
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Last week marked a big win for Muslim women in the soccer world. Soccer (football/futbol/le foot – we’re American, so we’re going to keep c...
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LONDON — The prospect of Saudi Arabia sending women athletes and officials to the Olympics for the first time has increased following talks ...
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Goal-line technology was approved in principle by the soccer's lawmakers on Saturday and could be used for the first time at FIFA's ... -
By Elham Asaad Buaras IOC praised the Saudis for allowing Dalma Malas to take part in the youth games omitting the fact that she was ...
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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