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When soccer's world governing body FIFA banned Muslim headscarves from competition, a shudder went through Sydney's all-female footb... -
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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By Sara Yasin Recently, Maryland seventh-grader Maheen Haq was forced to sit out during the first half of her basketball game, after lea... -
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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JORDAN sent out a stern warning to their chief title-rivals in the Women's Football Cup Arabia 2010 last night with a 20-0 drubbing of I...
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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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