The Muslim Woman

In an expected development, Muslim youth parties in the Sub-Saharan part of Africa are urging Muslim women not to be distracted by the ongoing campaigns that the westerners are carrying on in the name of gender equality. The plea came up during a...

The poll for the Presidential election and two other posts of local government - Governorate and District in Yemen is all set to kick off from Wednesday, but unfortunately, the number of women voters exceeds the number of women candidates running for.

Finding stylish yet decent garments for Muslim women in US is indeed a challenging job. They don't have much of a choice in the clothing department. If they go for body-hugging and little bit revealing designs, that will be a religious fiasco, so...

Just a few days back, a survey was made among the ethnic minorities in UK, which states that the Muslim women from Pakistan and Bangladesh are suffering from job discrimination because of their religious attire. A lot of outcry was heard from many...

Until date, no Pakistani woman has ever come forward to tell her story of rape to the whole world. Despite being criticized a lot by the President Pervez Musharraf for her daring act, rape victim Mukhtaran Mai is determined to take everything on her..

Iraqi men and women praying (Reuters) In a move to spread the 'message of peace', a number of Iraqi men and women gathered at a Roman Catholic Church for a Sunday mass in Baghdad. The gathering was organized to convey to all across the world...

You and me will definitely tag it as 'speed dating' when a boy and girl meet up for a seven minute chit-chat, but for the growing American Muslim community, they prefer to label it in a more respectable term called 'Matrimonial Banquet'. This...

Nearly 50 women in Uzbekistan were detained from studying the Qur'an when all of them gathered at Tashkent clothes factory worker's home for an assembly meeting. According to reports at DEMAZ, all these detainees had come together for an...

In a recently held Indo-Pak Punjab Psychiatric Society, a group of Pakistani psychiatrists said that women in the rural areas of Pakistan are developing an inferiority complex due to the Indian TV soaps depicting 'glam dolls' on the small screen...

A three-day dialogue has started today in Quezon City, where nearly 50 revered religious leaders from the Muslim community will get engaged in a brain-storming session with people from several fields such as the women's rights activists, lawyers, Sharia..