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Dear sportswomen and activists, We from DISCOVER FOOTBALL have taken it upon ourselves to promote intercultural understanding and equality ... -
Apparently, the veil becomes the most symbolic issue when it comes to "Muslim Women" even in sports news. I am not very comfortabl... -
This report is the first in a series on the situation of women's sport in Iran to be published by Small Media during the London 2012...
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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 Saeed Kamali Dehghan On a Tuesday morning in June, Elham Asghari stepped into the tidal waters of the chilly Caspian sea in north...
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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