Roses, Not Protest – Norwegian Muslims respond to “Innocence of Muslims”

China’s Female Mosques – KATHLEEN MCLAUGHLIN, SHARRON LOVELL

  Women have led Muslim congregations in China for generations, but their tradition’s success may be its own undoing   Imam Guo Dong Ping, center, prays at a mosque in the village of Sangpo, Henan province. The women of Sangpo...

Gazan heads to Oxford University on unusual scholarship By Jon Donnison

The scholarship offers Rawan Yaghi a life-changing opportunity Rawan Yaghi is a bookish 19 year old who, appropriately for a student of literature, arrives to meet me in Gaza with a text tucked under her arm. It is a well-thumbed copy of Catch 22, Joseph...

124-year-old Muslim woman refused to sell her religion for money and fame

The head scarf was the only hindrance in the way for the oldest woman in the world to enter the so-called Guinness World Records.   124-year-old Palestinian Maryam Hamdan Ammash, her sons and grandsons refused to meet the condition of the Guinness...

No More Excuses; Time to be a Hijabi

I have been Muslim for about two and a half years now. About 6 months after that, I began dressing more modestly, wearing long sleeves, looser fitting clothes, etc. I knew then that I would eventually want to/ need to wear a hijab, but wasn’t ready...

Fashion for the Muslim Sisters

 

Sister Maryam Jameelah Passed away today

  Imminent female Islamic scholar Maryam Jameelah who converted to Islam at the age of 27 has died here today after prolonged illness aging 78. Innalilllahi….. The deceased was suffering from illness from the past several years because of her...

Bosnian woman 1st mayor to don hijab

mra Babic, the newly elected mayor of the Bosnian town of Visoko, is the first mayor to wear hijab. Wed Oct 10, 2012 10:36AM Islam is very clear regarding the woman. It reserves for her a place in the public life and all those who interpret it correct...

Striving for Peace & Justice by Lauren Booth by ICNATV

Striving for Peace & Justice by Lauren Booth ICNA-CSJ Annual Banquet and Fundraiser ICNA Council for Social Justice, a social justice advocacy organization is holding its Annual Banquet and Fundraiser on December 17, 2011. Well known British journalist,...

A stellar inspiration for modern-day Muslim women – Young Egyptian woman revolutionizes space travel by inventing novel propulsion method

  An Egyptian physics student has successfully created a new propulsion device that could accelerate space probes and artificial satellites through quantum physics and chemical reactions instead of the current radioactive-based jets and ordinary...