Top 5 Posts of the Week
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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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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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SHOULD boxing be a male sport only? According to Amitabh Bachchan, ‘The ladies do not care much for it. Too brutal for them they say.’ That...
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By DAVID WHARTON Los Angeles Times LONDON The smallish young woman in the black headscarf spoke just above a whisper. Tears welled in her da...
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via Yahoo! Sports LONDON – The two historic athletes who became the first women to ever represent Saudi Arabia in the Olympic Games have...
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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