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Sinéad O’Connor’s family embraces her Muslim identity and lets her get buried as a Muslim Woman with Guest Dr. Umar Al-Qadri on TheDeenShow

The singer discussed her religious journey and gave an emotional performance of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’   After a few years away from the limelight, Sinead O’Connor has returned to the public eye, giving a frank interview about her conversion to Islam and a raw performance of Nothing Compares 2 U on Irish TV show, The Late Late Show.    I read just chapter …

Saadieh tells Al Jazeera what she loves about refereeing, the challenges she’s overcome, and what it means to officiate in the 2023 Women’s World Cup. Saadieh in action during the 2020 AFC Women’s Olympic Qualifying match between Myanmar and Bangladesh in Yangon, Myanmar [File: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA-EFE] Heba Saadieh is set to make history by becoming the first Palestinian – …

 Senior journalist Jamila Husain has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of Daily Mirror , Sri Lanka’s premier English-language daily. She assumed office on June 1. Jamila has the distinction of being the youngest Editor-in-Chief of a daily national newspaper in Sri Lanka. She began her career in journalism in 2003 with Sunday Leader, then joined Daily Mirror in 2007. She left Daily Mirror in 2010 to be …

Senator Fatima Payman is a senator for Western Australia. She was an organiser for the United Workers Union in 2018 and was a program coordinator for Edmund Rice Education Australia. She was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and was naturalised as an Australian citizen in 2005. Payman is the first hijab-wearing Muslim woman in the Australian Parliament. The transcript of this …