Top 5 Posts of the Week
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WHISTLER, B.C. — Marjan Kalhor’s green, knit toque is pulled down low on her forehead. Her hair is neatly tucked beneath the toque that’s em...
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The Istanbul Olympic bid for the 2020 Games gets a big boost for women’s sports as Turkey’s Olympic team for London 2012 is now ... -
Tugba Karademir, who finished 12th at the European World Championships in January, skated to Bazaar Istanbul to a 21st place finish on ... -
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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For the first time in Olympic history, eight Iranian female athletes will compete in London 2012. All of the athletes have qualified officia...
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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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