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Edna Adan Ismail is interviewed in Hargeisa, Somaliland on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. (AP/Brian Inganga)
March 2, 2026, 10:43 pm
Nurse to nation-builder, Somaliland’s honorary ‘first lady’ hails ‘natural’ ties with Israel
Edna Adan Ismail, 88, says she was working on forging diplomatic relations with Jerusalem as foreign minister two decades ago, recognizing countries’ shared interests
By Diana Bletter
A woman wearing a hijab walks through the water spray in front of the Praterstern train station in Vienna on August 21, 2023. (Alex HALADA / AFP)
December 11, 2025, 5:36 pm
Austria bans headscarves in schools for girls under 14
Conservative-led government says law will protect girls ‘from oppression,’ though Amnesty International calls it ‘blatant discrimination against Muslim girls’
By AFP
Sheila Katz, CEO of National Council of Jewish Women, speaking at an interfaith rally in front of the Supreme Court on January 18, 2023. (Courtesy of NCJW)
January 22, 2023, 4:41 pm
50 years after Roe v. Wade, fight for choice turns into battle for religious freedom
After a 2022 decision to overturn the longstanding right to abortion, religious women’s groups unite in protesting laws reflecting a Christian-centric view on when life begins
By Cathryn J. Prince
Afghan female singer Aryana Sayeed performs during a concert to commemorate Afghanistan's Independence Day in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)
September 3, 2021, 8:24 pm
Pop-artist who fled Taliban speaks to Israeli TV about the women left behind
A dejected Aryana Sayeed tells Kan that she escaped Afghanistan last month, fearing the extremists would make an example of her
By ToI Staff
Some of the women saying no to violence in the 'Lo B'shmi' grassroots effort begun by a small sisterhood of Jerusalemites (Courtesy Heftzi Zion Mozes)
May 18, 2021, 2:11 pm
Jerusalem women protest civil violence #NotInMyName
Ad hoc sisterhood starts social media campaign of ‘love, patience and hope’ amid frustration over Jewish-Arab strife in mixed towns
By Jessica Steinberg
Newly-elected Ra'am MK, Iman Khatib-Yasin. (Gili Yaari/ Flash90/ via Zman)
April 4, 2020, 7:58 am
How Israel’s first hijab-wearing MK plans to fight for Arab women
Newly elected to the Joint List, self-described feminist Iman Khatib-Yasin has widespread support from both sexes as she accuses the Jewish state of the ultimate sexist suppression
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
In this Monday, Nov. 11, 2019 photo, human rights lawyer Huda Nasrallah poses for a portrait at her office in Cairo, Egypt (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
November 15, 2019, 11:23 am
Egyptian woman fights unequal Islamic inheritance laws
Since her father’s death, Huda Nasrallah, a Christian, has demanded an equal share of property left to her two brothers; Islamic inheritance laws favor male heirs
By NOHA ELHENNAWY
A picture taken on January 19, 2018 shows Saudi women clad in the Abaya robes and men walking during the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Rumah, some 160 kilometers east of Riyadh. (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)
August 3, 2019, 11:04 am
Saudi Arabia wins praise, ire as guardianship rules eased
Despite ‘progress,’ system not fully dismantled and longtime women’s rights activists still face travel bans or are on trial after a sweeping crackdown on dissent last year
By Anuj Chopra
A Saudi woman displays her new driver's license in 2018. (Saudi Information Ministry/ via AP)
July 28, 2019, 3:20 am
Rising from ashes of Arab Spring, women lead a first Muslim feminist revolution
The often violent upheaval sweeping the Middle East in the last decade has also spurred women to cling to gains earned as they fight, and rebuild, alongside men
By Ksenia Svetlova
The iconic 'Girl of Enghelab Street,' Vida Movahed, who appeared in public in Tehran, Iran, in December 2017 without wearing a headscarf, as mandated by law. (YouTube screenshot)
April 14, 2019, 1:17 pm
Iranian woman who took off her headscarf sentenced to year in prison
Vida Movahed, the ‘Girl of Enghelab Street,’ said to be on pardon list by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
By AP
Ahmad Al-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in his office, in Cairo, Egypt, in 2015. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
March 3, 2019, 5:43 pm
Egypt’s top Muslim cleric fuels debate by deeming polygamy an ‘injustice’
Islam allows men to take up to four wives as long as they are treated equally, and the practice is legal in most Islamic countries
By AP
Tabarek Kadhim, a student at Deering High School in Portland, Maine, wears a sports hijab while playing a tennis match in Windham, Maine in 2017. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
February 27, 2019, 7:55 pm
Decathlon cancels plans to sell sports hijab in France
In latest French controversy over face- and body-covering garments worn by Muslim women, retailer backs down hours after announcing it would market a runner’s hijab
By AFP
One of Miryam Vilnar's embroidered figures, featured in 'Embroidered Scaffolds,' at Jerusalem's Hansen House (Courtesy Yaakov Israel)
February 24, 2019, 8:17 pm
For a group of Jerusalem artists, embroidery points the way forward
The Jewish artists of Studio of Her Own met with Muslim craftswomen for 2 years to deepen their knowledge of their craft and one another; now, an exhibit cements their connection
By Jessica Steinberg
In this Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, photo, Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun sits barricaded in a hotel room at an international airport in Bangkok, Thailand (Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun/Human Rights Watch via AP)
January 7, 2019, 6:43 pm
Thailand says it won’t deport Saudi asylum-seeking woman held at airport
Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun blockaded herself in a room, begged for help on social media, saying she was fleeing her family; Bangkok announces she won’t be sent back against her will
By GRANT PECK and Aya Batrawy
Bar Refaeli wearing the niqab in a clothing ad launched on October 30, 2018. (Screenshot: YouTube)
November 1, 2018, 1:16 pm
Ad starring Bar Refaeli in niqab slammed as Islamophobic
Video shows supermodel removing Muslim garb with message ‘Freedom is Basic’; she deletes it from social media amid backlash
By Michael Bachner
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