Iran

When I first heard the title of Dr. Nina Ansary’s latest book, Jewels of Allah,...

Afghanistan In Afghanistan, half of all deaths among women aged 15 to 49 are because...

Australia Monique Toohey, a Muslim psychologist, met with Australian Labor MPs on Wednesday to discuss...

Linda Sarsour is a woman in a hurry. Only 35, she has already helped to...

Seven Muslim women from around the world are bicycling across Iowa as a way of...

England's first women-only mosque will open in Bradford, a 19th-century industrial boomtown and one of...

Six years ago I attended a contemporary dance workshop, and while I’ve been dancing for...

This post was originally published at Aquila Style. The liberal feminist organisation Femen and its...

A few months ago I was invited to like a Facebook page called Memes Feministas...

When I was growing up in a small city on Canada’s East Coast, many of...

“When someone wants to be an artist, because they cannot let what’s going on around...

Transgender identities and trans* embodiment are topics that are generally ignored within many communities, and...

In recent news, Muslim women have been highlighted for their violent actions towards in men...

FIFA has overturned its headscarf ban, enforced since 2007, on women playing soccer with their...

An eclectic round-up of some articles of interest elsewhere on the internet: A Muslim participant...

We're sharing some excerpts today from a few different stories that relate to things we've...

Amid speculations that Iran has made advances in nuclear technology for the purpose of making...

After reading a couple of reviews (on FilmJabber and Afterellen.com) about Circumstance, a recent film...

Golnaz Esfandiari writes about a cartoon by a hard-line news agency: "The cartoon suggests that...

Google executive Wael Ghonim became one of the faces of the Egyptian revolution through the...

On Friday, the President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia fled his homeland as it...

If you still haven’t figured out that wearing black chadors will save your worldly soul...

This post was written by Sara Khorshid Doost. You can read Part I here. The...

This post was written by Sara Khorshid Doost. Fariba Davoodi Mohajer is an Iranian women's...

As I snuggled on the couch to watch HBO’s documentary on Neda Agha-Soltan, I knew...

Before watching The Stoning of Soraya M., I had already formed an opinion of it...

The Glass House, directed by Hamid Rahmanian, is a documentary of the lives of a...

This guest post was written by Rochelle Terman. Shadi Sadr, the prominent Iranian lawyer and...

If you’ve been following coverage of the fallout from the recent Iranian elections, you have...

This was written by Elise Auerbach and originally published on Human Rights Now, the Amnesty...