Empowerment

Hala Aldosari | 13 Dec 2015 13:38 GMT

Votes continue to be counted in Saudi Arabia's municipal elections, in which women were allowed for the first time to cast ballots. According to official figures, 130,000 women registered to vote in Saturday's poll, compared with 1.35 million men.

 Cet ouvrage brise le mythe de l’image des musulmanes comme femmes passives, opprimées et apolitiques. Il récupère les vies et les voix oubliées, la plupart du temps, de femmes qui, du huitième au début du vingtième siècle, ont, au sein des nations et des communautés musulmanes, fait valoir leurs droits et ceux des autres femmes et ont pu promouvoir la justice dans les sphères privée et publique.

This book provides an urgently needed analysis of the bravery and creativity exhibited by women in the realm of sports, which has emerged as a major realm of contestation between proponents of women’s rights and political Islamist forces in Muslim contexts. Through focused case studies, this volume tracks the many sophisticated, context-specific, and constantly evolving strategies of women’s resistance to their exclusion in sport. Integral in their struggles for full inclusion in competitive sports, as both players and spectators, is women’s claim to their full and equal citizenship.

Women Living Under Muslim Laws, in collaboration with London Middle Eastern Institute, organised a screening of the Trials of Spring at SOAS, University of London, on the 28th of October 2015.