Alexandria S. McCarthy is the International Advocacy Programme Officer at Musawah, the global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family. She previously served as Musawah’s Communications Programme Officer, and in communications and advocacy roles in the United States Senate and non-profit and academic organisations in the USA and UK. She is an Editorial...
Amal Elmohandes completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts from the American University in Cairo (AUC) with a major in English and Comparative Literature (2000), and obtained a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin, with a focus on Gender and Women’s Studies (2002). Since 2001, she gained experience in the fields of research, developmental...
Camilla Gray graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor in Islamic Studies and Asian cultures. She will be starting her Master of Theological Studies at Harvard University this fall, with a focus on religion, ethics and politics. She is currently working for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as a Junior Communication and...
Amna Nasir is a journalist and researcher from Pakistan, currently living in Sydney. She is a recent graduate of Gender and Cultural Studies from the University of Sydney with a distinction. She completed her first masters in Diversity and Media with a distinction from the University of Westminster, UK. She is the recipient of three...
Remembering Dr. Suhaila Siddiqi: An Icon That Has Marked Women’s History in Afghanistan The Woman Who Defied Traditional Gender Roles and Stood up to The Taliban Dr. Sohilala Siddiqi, one of Afghanistan’s most respected surgeons and the country’s first female minister of health, died on December 4th, 2020, at the age of 72. Siddiqi was...
On a wintery day in December 2017, Vida Movahedi, stood defiantly on a utility box on a busy crossroad on busy Revolution Street in Tehran, waving her white headscarf which she had taken off, on a stick in an act of civil disobedience against Iran’s mandatory hijab law. Her courageous action was a plea for...
Fadia Khalaf: I see myself neither as a hero nor an icon but rather as a daughter of the revolution. The threats to my life may make me more careful but they cannot stop me or other young women leaders who want to change the culture of violence and impunity. We believe we can make...
Cassandra Balchin was born in England in 1962 to Yovanka (née Tomich), a Yugoslav refugee and former journalist, and Nigel Balchin, a psychologist and author. During her childhood, she spent time with family in Yugoslavia, which greatly shaped her worldview. She pursued undergraduate studies in Russian Government and History at the London School of Economics,...
Salma Sobhan Lives with us through her words and actions Salma Sabhan passed away suddenly late on Monday, 29th December (2003 )at her home in Dhaka after suffering breathing difficulties. Salma’s unexpected death came as a shock to us. To many of us she was the face of the network. Salma apa, as she was affectionately...
We have always said that Marieme is a visionary, someone with women’s rights and gender politics written into her DNA. Born in Algiers to a family where politics was an integral part of everyday life, not a side interest. Like many politicized young women of her time, she was influenced by Algeria’s war of independence...
