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...
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Asifa Quraishi
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Halimah Yacob
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...
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Shirin Ebadi
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...
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Nashwa Eassa
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...
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Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim became the 6th President of Mauritius and the first woman elected as president of the country from 2015 to 2018. She is the first woman to ever run...
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Yasmin Mogahed
Yasmin Mogahed is a Muslim scholar and an expert in spirituality, psychology and personal development in the USA. She has formerly written for InFocus News and currently writes for Huffington...
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Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto inherited the control of PPP (Pakistan’s People Party) from her father and won the election in 1988 thus becoming the first female Prime Minister of a Muslim nation....
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Mame Madior Boye
Mame Madior Boye was the Prime Minister of Senegal from the year 2001 to 2002. Being the first female holder of that position in her country, Boye was known for...
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Khaleda Zia
Khaleda Zia is the second woman in the Muslim world to come to be the head of the state after Benazir Bhutto. She entered the politics after her husband’s assassination...
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Megawati Sukarnoputri
Megawati Sukarnoputri served as Indonesia’s first and only female president from 2001 to 2004. She is the present leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). It is one...