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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...
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...
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...
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....
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...