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Top 5 Posts of the Week
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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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by Sorcha Pollak The end of a rule that barred women from wearing a hijab while playing football has seen the numbers of young musl...
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Turkey may have won all three first round games at the U20 European Championship for Women, but Friday's quarter-finals is all that matt... -
By Shireen Ahmed "Hands Up... SCREAM," he shouted. "HANDS UP! Faster! Faster!" Konga blew his whistle and I jumpe...
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Women in Saudi Arabia will reportedly be allowed to attend sporting events in stadiums next year, according to reports. They will be allo...
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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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