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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 …

Despite the Islamophobic industry condemning female circumcision as a “patriarchal custom”, a recent report by the FPA ‘Towards Understanding Female Genital Cutting in Sri Lanka’ by Zainab Ibrahim and Ermiza Tegal has shown that it is Muslim Women who mostly support the practice. Moreover despite being labeled “outdated” the evidence shows that it is actually being perceived very positively and …

Motivational speaker Mrs. Sabarimala from the Tamil Nadu state of India has embraced Islam. She says that she started reading the Qur’an after seeing so much hate against Muslims in her country. “I asked myself why is there so much hate against Muslims in this country? I started reading the Qur’an as a neutral person. Now I know the truth. …

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday announced that female Muslim staff in Singapore’s public healthcare, including nurses, are allowed to wear hijab or “tudung” as an add-on to their uniforms starting November. He noted that wearing tudung became increasingly important for the Muslim community, and for many Muslim women it is an important part of their faith and expression …