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Asma Afsaruddin is an Islamic professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is specialized in the religious and political thought of...
Azizah Y. al-Hibri is the founder of Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights and a Professor emeritus at T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond. Her work has...
Sima Samar was appointed as a member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s-High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement in 2019. She is the Special Envoy of the Afghanistan President and State Minister...
Dr. Hawa Abdi Diblaawe was a human rights activist and physician from Somalia. She was also the founder and chairperson of Hawa Abdi Foundation (DHAF). It is a non-profit organization...
Ingrid Mattson is a Muslim religious leader, a scholar of Islamic Studies and an expert in interfaith religions. She was a Professor of Islamic Studies at Hartford Seminary in CT....
Thuraya Al-Arrayed, the first Saudi woman Ph.D. to live and work in the Eastern Province, and Huda Al-Ghosen, who in 2007 became a director of the Aramco’s shipping subsidiary, Vela...
Nadya Bakhurji, the first Saudi woman to become a board member of the Saudi Council of Engineers and has campaigned for the recognition of Saudi female architects and engineers in...
Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi born architect. She was considered as one of the greatest living architects till 2016. She was the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize. In...
Laleh Bakhtiar is the first American and the first woman to translate the Holy Qur’an into English. She has translated and written more than 150 books on Islam, including Qur’anic...
Maria Ulfah is an internationally acclaimed reciter of the Holy Qur’an. She is currently the manager of the Central Institute for the Development of Qur’anic Recitation in Jakarta. She is...