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Farhat Hashmi is one of the most influential Pakistani-Canadian Islamic scholar and public speaker. She gained popularity as a feminist scholar both in Pakistan and abroad. She is the founder...
Uzra Jafari is the first female mayor in Afghanistan and the current mayor of Nili town. She is an afghan politician and author. She was editor of Chief Afghan’s social...
Masoumeh Ebtekar is the current Vice President of Iran for Women and Family Affairs. She became the first female member in the cabinet of Iran and third in history, when...
Mona Haydar is an American poet, rapper and activist. Her songs are about shattering the conventional boundaries regarding racism and violence against women. She is best known for the viral...
Mariam Mirzakhani an Iranian-born, Harvard-educated mathematician, and served as a professor of mathematics at Stanford University in California. She was privileged and honored in Popular Science’s fourth annual “Brilliant 10”...
Faiza Al Kharafi is a well-known Kuwaiti chemist who was appointed as president of Kuwait University. She helped reconstruct the university after the first Gulf War (ended in 1991). Al...
Asifa Quraishi is a Professor of the Law at University of Wisconsin Law School. She is specialized in comparative Islamic and U.S Constitutional Law with a current focus on modern...
Halimah Yacob is currently serving as the eighth president of Singapore since 2017. She is the first female president of the country. She is also the second Muslim to rule...
Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian political activist, a lawyer, a former judge, a writer and human rights activist. Ebadi is also a founder of Defenders of Human Rights Centre in...
Nashwa Eassa is a nano-particle physicist from Sudan. In 2015 Eassa won “Elsevier Foundation Award for Women in Science in the Developing World”. She is involved in the development of...