Growing up in a traditional society, Abeer Abu Ghaith was often told a woman’s future is in her husband’s kitchen. Quietly, the 29-year-old proved everyone wrong. Abu Ghaith has become the first female high-tech entrepreneur in the West Bank, setting up an Internet employment brokerage and software development firm. Last month, the Palestinian trailblazer was…
Maha Akeel, a Saudi journalist who was the managing editor of OIC journal, has been appointed the Director of Information and Public Relations at the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The appointment of a woman as a Director of a department is a shot-in-the-arm for women empowerment. Speaking to Saudi Gazette she said that…
In a divorce court where a man’s testimony is worth twice a woman’s, victory for lawyer Reema Shamasneh is rare and often bittersweet. On this morning, a young nurse is desperate to end her marriage to a truck driver who she says beat her, doused her with scalding tea and kept her from seeing her…
Israel has appointed its first female judge in its Muslim sharia court system on Tuesday, officials said, a move hailed as historic. Hana Khatib, an attorney from the northern town of Tamra, was selected by an Israeli justice committee alongside three men to become a religious judge, or qadi, in the courts ruling on personal…
Four Muslim individuals won a seat in Australia’s largest city council in terms of population, Canterbury-Bankstown, Sydney. Among them is the first veiled Muslim woman councilor, on Saturday. The win comes amid rising conflicts demanding a ban on Muslim women wearing the headscarf and preventing them from earning seats in public offices. After successfully serving…
Aliyah Khalaf Saleh had already lost her husband, a son and a nephew to the terror that engulfed northern Iraq in 2014. But when a group of military cadets fled to her community near Tikrit to escape killers from ISIS, she risked all to save them. In June 2014, the militants slaughtered hundreds of mainly…
