women in Islam

Coronavirus restrictions on mosques bring women to the fore

By Hind Makki — May 18, 2020
(RNS) — Sheltering in place may be giving American Muslims an opportunity to reshape our community spaces.

Egypt fights Islamic extremism by allowing women leaders at mosques

By Amr El Tohamy — June 20, 2018
CAIRO (RNS) — The move to introduce women preachers – wa’ezzat in Arabic – marks the first time females have formally addressed worshippers in these spaces as officially sanctioned clergy.

‘Dalya’s Other Country’ portrays Muslim American mother and daughter

By Kimberly Winston — June 23, 2017
(RNS) A new film follows a teenage Syrian girl, as she becomes the only Muslim in an all-girl Catholic school in Los Angeles, and her mother, whose marriage dissolves.
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