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Local soldier deploys to Afghanistan
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[Tillamook Headlight Herald] - For the 11 years that U.S. forces have been in Afghanistan, they have been culturally prohibited from speaking to Afghan women because Afghanistan is a Muslim country, and Muslim women are forbidden to speak to men to whom they are not related.
City author's tale of quest for love
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[Bradford Telegraph and Argus] - The experiences of marriage by three generations of Muslim women is explored in a new play based on interviews carried out in Bradford. Called Cartographies of Love, the play is by writer and social commentator Irna Qureshi, who talked to South Asian
A Fresh Start for Women in Myanmar?
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[New York Times (blog)] - Khin Maung Win/Associated PressMuslim women at a refugee camp in Rakhine State, western Myanmar, last month, where deadly ethnic violence has flared between members of the Rohingya, who are mostly Muslim, and Buddhists. BANGKOK — Feminists
Guardian: Why I'll be marking Malala Day
[The Guardian (blog)] - The mystery was finally unravelled in the course of my current research about Muslim women's experiences of love and marriage. I decided to include my mum among the three generations of Pakistani women I interviewed in Bradford and Kirklees.
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