April 9, 2011
At some point, every conversation about women’s empowerment and combating female oppression will come back to the need for education. The University of Jordan hosts the country’s future politicians and decision-makers and I was …
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February 23, 2011
In colloquial Jordanian Arabic, otherwise known as Ammiyah, the “k” sound found in formal Arabic is pronounced as a hard “g” by men and as a soft “a” by women. My professor told me that …
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January 16, 2011
As a Religious Studies major specializing in Islamic Studies, I spend a great deal of my time discussing, writing and thinking about Muslim women. Last semester, after finishing my hundredth assigned reading on the meaning …
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September 15, 2010
Female genital cutting (FGC) is defined broadly by The WHO as “procedures that intentionally alter or injure female genital organs for non-medical reasons.” However, the term FGC covers a range of practices that …
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May 19, 2010
Senior Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazim Sadeghi declared last month during a Friday sermon in Tehran that “women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which consequently increases …
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