First Saudi woman climbs to top of Everest, makes history Kathmandu: After a lot of persuasion, Raha Moharrak's Saudi family finally agreed to let her make an attempt to climb Mount Everest. With her attempt, Moharrak became the first Saudi woman to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, according to BBC. Her four-member expedition team also includes the first Qatari man and the first Palestinian man attempting to reach the summit. The group is also trying to raise $1 million for education projects in Nepal.  Moharrak, who is originally from Jeddah, is a university graduate and is currently living in Dubai. As she comes from a conservative...More

First Saudi woman climbs to top of Everest, makes history Kathmandu: After a lot of persuasion, Raha Moharrak's Saudi family finally agreed to let her make an attempt to climb Mount Everest. With her attempt, Moharrak became the first Saudi woman to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, according to BBC. Her four-member expedition team also includes the first Qatari man and the first Palestinian man attempting to reach the summit. The group is also trying to raise $1 million for education projects in Nepal.  Moharrak, who is originally from Jeddah, is a university graduate and is currently living in Dubai. As she comes from a conservative...More

Muslim woman boxer takes fight into the ring ''Elbows up, knuckles up'' are the orders being fired out to young Muslim women in a gym tucked away in a Footscray industrial estate as they work on their boxing technique.Amid the punching bags, champion flyweight boxer Bianca Elmir is demanding fancy footwork at Mischa's Boxing Central gym on Sunday. ''Now straight, straight, upper cut, upper cut, hook, hook and again,'' Elmir yells to rouse the women aged between 16 and 22, but there are more giggles, with a touch of concentration, than faces of aggression.''Do not give up, you only stop when the bell goes,'...More

What Muslim women really want in the bedroom, Sex is taboo subject for most Muslims Sex is taboo subject for most Muslims. However, a growing number of young Muslim women are talking about what they really want when in the bedroom. Shelina Janmohamed, author of Love in a Headscarf, explains how women are leading the way in her faith when it comes to understanding sexuality. Under the new law, women who wear face-covering Muslim veils in 'public places' in France face being fined £125 or ordered to follow citizenship classes, or both    Image 1 of 3 Wedad Lootah is a UAE marriage counsellor who published an Arabic sex guide, Top Secret: Sexual Gui...More

Why I as a Muslim Woman Don't Wear a Headscarf Does the Koran really demand that women wear headscarves? Or is it mainly older men who claim they can decide how women should dress – with no theological foundation whatsoever? For the Islam scholar Lamya Kaddor, there is no question about it: the headscarf is obsolete.German Islam scholar Lamya Kaddor: "If God had required a special head covering, would He not have said so explicitly?" If I as a Muslim woman living in Germany ask myself whether I should wear a headscarf or not, that gives rise to the question of whether the additional head-covering called for in the Koran (33:59) still fulfils its o...More

Iranian cleric says women can’t be president A member of Iran’s constitutional watchdog group insists that women cannot be presidential candidates, a report said Thursday, effectively killing the largely symbolic bids by about 30 women seeking to run in the June 14 election.Even before the comments by Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, chances for a woman candidate in Iran’s presidential election were considered nearly impossible.Women also have registered as potential candidates in past presidential elections, but the group that vets hopefuls appears to follow interpretations of the constitution that suggest only a man may hold Iran’s highest e...More