Topic: Women
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Can yoga be halal?
Opinion is divided as to whether practising the ancient discipline is permissible for Muslims, but some teachers are finding their own paths
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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
