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How do conservative countries handle scantily clad Olympic athletes? By Kara Hadge Posted Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008, at http://www.slate.com/... -
By Shireen Ahmed VICE is covering the launch of the Global Goals for sustainable development. In the next fifteen years, they want t...
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Features of sports in Islam are many. In fact, many Islamic obligations include physical activities in addition to spiritual activities and ...
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Instructors give last-minute instructions to women gliders, who are taking up the sport in a big way. — Courtesy photos Saudi Ga...
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By POH SI TENG KOLKATA, INDIA -- As the sun dips below the horizon, roll call begins at a boxing club in southeast Kolkata. Standing tall,...
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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