Muslim Women in SPORTS

The collection of news and articles on Muslim women and sports around the world. I decided to create the blog after I started doing research on the subject and recognized the lacuna of a central repository of collected materials about Muslim women's involvement in physical activities. -Sertaç Sehlikoglu

5/28/13

Maldives Women’s Team Forfeit Basketball Tournament Over Headscarf Ban

BY: MINIVAN NEWS The Maldives’ women’s basketball team refused to play without their headscarves, forfeiting the International B...

5/21/13

Saudi Arabia To Allow Women Into Stadiums

BY: JAMES M DORSEY Saudi Arabia, under domestic and international pressure to grant women sporting rights, is creating separate...

5/19/13

Samina Baig: First Pakistani woman to scale Mount Everest

Samina and her brother completed their trek up Mount Everest. PHOTO: theyouthrepublic.com Mountaineer Samina Baig has become the firs...

Saudi woman tops Everest as country warms to women in sports

(AFP) – KATHMANDU — Saudi woman Raha Moharrak reached the summit of Nepal's Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, in a first ...

5/10/13

Kuwait launches sports clubs for women

Photo Credit: www.thejakartapost.com As part of a new initiative launching sports leagues for women, al-Shatti and her teammates fr...

5/5/13

Saudi Arabia allows schoolgirls to play sport

Saudi Arabia has given girls at private schools the right to play sport, the education ministry said Sunday, in a step aimed at easing restr...

4/30/13

Will This Never End? "No Turbans On The Pitch"

By: Shireen AHMED In the last couple of months, I have written extensively and covered the issue of IFAB l...

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