This week at the Voices for Creative Nonviolence office in Chicago, my colleague Sabia Rigby prepared a presentation for a local high school. She’ll team up with a young friend of ours, himself a refugee from Iraq, to talk about refugee crises driven by war. Sabia recently returned from Kabul where she helped document the young Afghan Peace Volunteers’ efforts …
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The choice to change is now! An opinion on reforming Sri Lankan Muslim Personal Law
Muslims of Sri Lanka are governed under Muslim Personal Law. This means that in the areas of marriage, divorce and inheritance, all Muslims of this country will find themselves in a situation at some time or the other that will ensure they get to know about Muslim personal law. When I was quite young, I discovered that if my parents …
Read More »SAUDI ARABIA : Riyadh celebrates first Saudi Women’s Day
RIYADH: Riyadh celebrates its first Saudi Women’s Day, which started on Wednesday and will last for three days, with a large turnout expected. The event, organized and hosted by the King Fahd Cultural Center in Riyadh, will include women’s operetta for a female audience only. “We want to celebrate the Saudi woman and her successful role, and remind people of …
Read More »Great Women in Islamic History: A Forgotten Legacy
Islam placed paradise under the feet of women when they became mothers; they became the reason why fathers would enter paradise, and were also made such an integral part of a husband’s faith that without honoring his wife, his faith remained incomplete. It was with this newly acquired status that women soared high and made their distinguishing mark in history, …
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