Famile Arsalan in The Economist

Religious leaders, scholars and business people are meeting all over the world to argue about free speech and Islamic sensibilities.

Famile Fatma Arslan explained to a roomful of mostly male dignitaries that there might be better ways of defending Islam in the West than trying to impose in Western countries the curbs on free speech that exist in most Muslim lands.

Read the Article on Economist.com |Famile Arsalan's Bio (PDF)

Daisy Khan on Radio Islam

Tuesday, March 18, 2008.

Topic: Shedding Light on Common Misperceptions of American and Middle Eastern Muslim Women
Host: Janaan Hashim

Listen here | RadioIslam.com

NPR - Weekend Edition: Mt. Helen, Iran

A local Iranian tribe, Bakhtiari, had honored Helen Jeffreys Bakhtiar, Laleh Bakhtiar's mother, by naming a mountain after her. The nomadic tribe had done so to commemorate Helen''s public health work in the 1950s.

Listen or Read NPR.org | Article by TheNational.ae

Shahina Akbar Addressing Women on Drug-free Culture

WISE member Shahina Akbar, attorney for the High Court in Islamabad, Pakistan, addressing a women's gathering in a community in Rawalpindi, on "Drugs and the role of women in maintaining a drug-free culture in the family". The series of lectures, conducted twice a week, are sponsored by the Behbud Association of Pakistan and are geared towards empowerment of women. Shahina's lectures have covered topics on the rights and responsibilities of women such as the Islamic laws of inheritance, marriage contract, child custody, child sexual abuse child labor empowerment of women, etc. within the legal framework. With the intent of taking the education out of the five-star hotel forum into the communities, these lectures are conducted in homes where neighborhood women congregate ,as well as in educational institutions like schools colleges and post graduate colleges, professional colleges of commerce, and skills training institutes.

Behbud Association, the organizing entity, has a forty-year record of committment to poverty alleviation and the betterment of underprivliged lives.

Shahina Akbar's Bio

Ayse Turgut Interviews NY-based Artist Hala Schoukair

A.T. How do you want people to experience your art?

H.S. I want them to enjoy a special intense emotion when they see it. I want them to feel like they are walking into a different space. I want them to feel the moment, and this could change when they see it another time.

Interview | Hala Schoukair's Bio | Hala's Work | Ayse Turgut's Website

Daisy Khan on Women's Issues

While recently in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ASMA Executive Director, Daisy Khan, sought to highlight women's issues and cultivate an in-depth discussion. For an article by Bernama, a Malaysian National News Agency, click the link below.

Article

Press Release: the Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women and WLUML on UN Torture Report

On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (June 26^th), Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) International Solidarity Network and the Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women! would like to draw your attention to the attached press release. The press release is a response to a recent Report issued by the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

Best Wishes,

Women Living Under Muslim Laws
International Coordination Office
www.wluml.org
                &
The Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women!
Campaign Team
www.stop-stoning.org | www.stop-killing.org

Press Release (PDF)