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Nigar Johar is the first female Lt. Gen in Pakistan’s history. Lieutenant General Nigar Johar is the first and only woman in Pakistan Army’s history to have achieved the rank of...
Massouda Jalal is a politician of Afghanistan and served as Minister of Women’s Affairs from 2004 to 2006. She is also the only woman candidate in 2004 Afghan Presidential elections....
Amani al-Khatahtbeh is an American author, activist and tech entrepreneur. She founded MuslimGirl, a media outlet. The aim of the blog is to raise the place of Muslim women in...
Asma Jahangir was Pakistan’s leading human rights lawyer. She showed incredible courage in defending the most vulnerable Pakistanis- women, children, minorities and poor. She was also a social activist who...
Riffat Hassan is an internationally acclaimed Islamic scholar and activist. She is a Pakistani-American theologian and a leading Islamic feminist scholar of the Quran. She has previously taught at Harvard...
Sameera Moussa was the first female Egyptian nuclear physicist in 1935. She held a doctorate in atomic radiation. She dedicated her life to making medical nuclear power affordable to all. She got scholarship from the Fulbright...
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...