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In 2010, the news that Lauren Booth, half-sister of Cherie Blair and sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, had converted to Islam
Born in 1941 in Kerman, Iran, Mahnaz Afkhami has played an important role in campaigning for the rights of Iranian women. After her parents’ separat
Adela Khanum was born in 1847 in Sanandaj in what is now Iran to a prominent Kurdish ruling family. She married Osman Pasha, a chief of the neighborin
In June 2009, a few months after President Obama’s swearing-in, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named Farah Pandith as the first-ever Special Rep
Manal al Sharif is one of the organizers of an online campaign that ecouraged women to drive en masse in Saudi Arabia on June 17, 2011.1 Presently, th
Hebah Ahmed, blogger and activist, was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee to Egyptian-American parents and grew up in Tennessee and Texas. She holds a mas
Edita Tahiri was born July 29, 1956 in the city of Prizren in the south of what is now Kosovo. Living through the violence and upheavals that have tra
