Topic: Women
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Mainstream football left Muslim women behind. Grassroots teams are leading them back in
Hosting training sessions and building thriving communities, local organisations open up the sport to everyone
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How Europe failed Afghanistan’s women
When the Taliban retook Afghanistan, the EU promised to protect women. Four tell Hyphen of their experience trying to take up that offer
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Faravaz Farvardin on singing her way to freedom
The Iranian singer’s debut album is an angry account of arrest and exile — and a bold provocation of the regime that jailed her
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‘If I’d been taught what endometriosis was, I’d have known sooner’
Cultural stigma and a lack of appropriate care have painful consequences for the menstrual health of Muslim women
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An emergency exit toga: why I love the top sheet
The extra bed sheet helps keep you the perfect temperature in the hotter months, and can act as a makeshift gown
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How to maintain healthy hair underneath your hijab
Steps you can take to care for and protect your locks
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Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius — Muslim director from Bradford reclaims the regency rebel
Ali Naushahi’s direction of the BBC series shows how the writer’s legacy lives in the imaginations of all marginalised women
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Alia Syed on using experimental film-making to explore issues of representation
Her latest exhibition showing at Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts draws on oral history from the city’s South Asian diaspora
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Sheffield’s first Black Muslim woman lord mayor tells of pride in her new role
Safiya Saeed is the 128th person to hold the ceremonial position. She says she wants more people to see Sheffield’s town hall as theirs
