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DUBAI: Women are pushing forward on gaining more rights within their respective societies across the Islamic world, professor Amina Jamal of Ryerson University in Canada said at a seminar on Islam.

She said that Muslim women are gaining more acceptance in entering a broader range of opportunities and are working for their rights through the space they have created for themselves.

Jamal, speaking at the seminar titled “Islam: South Asian Muslim Women’s Struggles and Transnational Feminist Practices,” said that the move to create more space for women should not be discounted and she said that more work is still needed.

Read the whole article on bikyamasr, published 26 July

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DUBAI: Women are pushing forward on gaining more rights within their respective societies across the Islamic world, professor Amina Jamal of Ryerson University in Canada said at a seminar on Islam.

She said that Muslim women are gaining more acceptance in entering a broader range of opportunities and are working for their rights through the space they have created for themselves.

Jamal, speaking at the seminar titled “Islam: South Asian Muslim Women’s Struggles and Transnational Feminist Practices,” said that the move to create more space for women should not be discounted and she said that more work is still needed.

Read the whole article on bikyamasr, published 26 July

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