جميلات غامبيا | الغامبيات قمة في الجمال والأنوثة | فتيات وبنات ونساء جامبيا

Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee NBC Today Show

http://www.today.com/popculture/kelsea-ballerini-performs-new-single-klg-hoda-t22306

Nusayba bint Ka'b Al-Ansariyah

Nusayba was of one of the first advocates for the rights of Muslim women. Notably, she asked the Prophet Muhammad, "Why does God only address men (in the Quran)?" Soon after this exchange, the Prophet received a revelation in Chapter 33, Verse 35 that mentions women can attain every quality to which men have access. The verse also conclusively settled that women stand on the same spiritual level as men. She was viewed as a visionary who transcended her own generation.

Iranian swimmer Elham Asghari: 'My 20km record has been held hostage'

On a Tuesday morning in June, Elham Asghari stepped into the tidal waters of the chilly Caspian sea in northern Iran to swim 20km in full Islamic dress. But her record-breaking nine-hour feat has not ...

https://plus.google.com/103369008302500421163/posts

Physical education for Saudi girls stirs debate

Physical education for Saudi girls stirs debate

Reuters

A step to introduce physical education for girls at Saudi government schools has become the talk of the town in the kingdom, with many hailing it as a positive development and some slamming it as a threat to social values.

Last week, the government advisory Shura Council called on the country’s education ministry to look into including sports for girls at state-run schools on condition that they are in line with Sharia rules on dress and gender segregation, according to the Saudi Press Agency.

Meanwhile, Mohammed al-Saleh, secretary-general of the Higher Education Council, told makkahnewspaper.comMonday that the next move would be to recruit sports educators from abroad.

A previous ban on physical education for girls was relaxed in private schools in 2013. The Shura Council’s demand last week to include state-run schools has been welcomed internationally both by the International Olympic Committee and Human Rights Watch.

“It’s a good sign that Saudi authorities appear to realize letting all girls in Saudi Arabia play sports is important to their physical and mental wellbeing,” Sarah Leah Whitson of Human Rights Watch told Agence France Presse.

Al-Watan newspaper published a column on Monday with a title that read: “Would you marry a girl who practiced sports?” The columnist criticized and mocked opponents of the move.

He quoted a two-year old study showing that three-quarters of the country’s population suffered obesity and 75 percent of the women are obese and that 80 percent of secondary diabetes cases were related to obesity.

The article dismissed conservative voices that are critical of making girls play sports at schools. Some conservative clerics had denounced the move as a “Western innovation,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

One cleric Abdullah Al Dawood even tweeted that “these steps will end in infidelity and prostitution.”

Speaking to Al Arabiya News from Jeddah, veteran Saudi journalist Omar al-Mudwahi said there was nothing new in the clerical opposition to the move. “The religious institution has always stood against the advancement of women’s rights.”

Abdullah Hamidaddin, a Saudi writer and commentator on religion and politics, wrote in a recent column on Al Arabiya news that the Shura Counci’s move “is not a decision about girls practicing sports. Nor is it one about women rights. This is a decision to push back the authority of the religious institution.

“The easiest way to explain what happened is to say that there are zealots whose interpretation of Islamic scripture is misogynic and thus believe that the only option women have is to lie down and die. Thus the government decided to intervene and give women some hope of a natural life,” Hamidaddin added.

Journalist Mudwahi noted that the plan to introduce physical education for girls in public schools is part of comprehensive government response to high obesity rates among women.

“Municipalities across the kingdom are also creating long pedestrian walkways special for women especially after repeated health ministry figures showing high obesity and diabetes rates among women,” he said.

“Previously all physical education centers are extensions of hospitals as if it is a disease, as if female sports is a disease and it is very expensive,” al-Mudwahi said.

“As a man, it would cost me 300 riyals ($80) per month to go to gym. But it would cost my wife or my daughter about 1000 riyals ($266),” he explained.

He noted that unlike universities, most schools in the primary and secondary education are not equipped with physical education facilities for girls.

“This issue has been passed in the Shura Council, but the important question remains: Are our schools ready for such thing? Of course no,” he said. But within a few years, most schools are likely to have physical education facilities if there is a legal framework for girls to practice sport.

The Saudi Shura Council move is seen as another step empowering women during the reign of King Abdullah, after appointing women into the legislative Shura Council and allowing them to practice different professions which weren’t allowed before such as law.

Source: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2014/04/15/Physical-education-for-girls-stirs-debate-in-Saudi-Arabia.html

Muslim Women of Europe in Sports

Khadijah Safari, teaches Muay Thai Kickboxing and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) to women in the UK

///

Sara Chaudhry: "I have learned to feel more empowered wearing my hijab in my current surroundings"

///

Kawtar Boughroum "Why does it bother people so much that I cover my head?"

///

Yasmien. N. "My hijab made me realize how important it is to be independent and to work things out myself."

 

The collection of news and articles on Muslim women and sports around the world. I decided to create the blog after I started doing research on the subject and recognized the lacuna of a central repository of collected materials about Muslim women's involvement in physical activities. -Sertaç Sehlikoglu

1/12/15

///
http://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/features/muslim-women-and-their-experiences-wearing-hijab-europe-2027900557

///
http://muslimwomeninsports.blogspot.com/

BBC Podcast: Muslim White Female Part 1

,,

Muslim Women Super Achievers Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans

Amal ElBakhar
JD at Harvard

Asmaa Elsayed
EdM in Global Education at Harvard


Ayan Hussein
Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Yale

Sahar Soleimanfard
MD at Johns Hopkins

Thirty Outstanding New Americans Each Awarded $90,000 Toward Their Graduate School Studies in US By Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans program announces 2015 Fellows;
Awards $2.7 million to support immigrants and the children of immigrants

Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Contact: Nikka Beaugard. 215-720-4648, Nbeaugard@PDSoros.org

NEW YORK - Today, The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, the premier graduate school fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants, announced their 2015 recipients. The thirty recipients, called "Fellows", were selected for their potential to make significant contributions to US society, culture, or their academic field, and were selected from a pool of 1,200 applicants.

"I admire the Fellows' ambition, accomplishments and work ethic," said Daisy M. Soros, who co-founded the Fellowship program in 1997 with her late husband, Paul Soros (1926-2013). "They underscore the importance of New Americans to this country." The couple, Hungarian immigrants, contributed $75 million to the organization's charitable trust.

In addition to receiving up to $90,000 in funding for the graduate program of their choice, each new Fellow will join the prestigious community of recipients from past years, which includes US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, leading Ebola researcher Pardis Sabeti, Oscar health insurance co-founder Kevin Nazemi and over 500 other New American leaders.

"It is extraordinary to see all that these Fellows have already accomplished," said Craig Harwood, who directs the Fellowship program. "Whether they are in the sciences, music, medicine, law or education, it is clear that this group of individuals will have a tremendous impact on their respective fields, and on life in this country."

The 2015 class of Fellows includes researchers, mathematicians, writers, scientists, translators, musicians, entrepreneurs and future doctors and lawyers, as well as the first-ever Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow in the field of nursing. They hail from China, Vietnam, Iran, Nigeria, Somalia, the United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Albania, Ukraine, Morocco, El Salvador, Mexico, Colombia, Libya, Poland, Russia, Peru, Israel, Oman, Brazil and the United States.

The 2015 cohort of Fellows is extremely diverse in terms of family heritage, field of study and New American status:

• 16 are female; 14 are male.
• The youngest Fellow is 21; the oldest is 30. The average age is 26.
• 22 were born abroad; 8 were born in the US.
• 2 are DACA recipients; 5 are green card holders; 15 are naturalized citizens.
• 13 Fellows are pursuing medicine; 7 natural science; 4 law; 3 music, visual and/or performing arts; 2 computer science; 2 business ; 1 social science and 1 education. 3 Fellows are currently pursuing more than 1 degree.
• 14 are first-generation college graduates; 10 are first-generation high school graduates.
• The Fellows attended a total of 23 undergraduate institutions, and will attend a total of 14 graduate schools.

Connect with the Fellowship on Social Media
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pdsoros
Twitter: @PDSoros
Instagram: @PDSoros

2016 Application Now Open
Individuals can learn more about the Fellowship, the current Fellows and the application, as well as sign up for the Fellowship's e-mail list, and an informational session webinar, at the program's website: www.pdsoros.org. The 2016 application is now open, and is due on November 1, 2015 at 11:59 EST.

Selection criteria focuses on accomplishments that show creativity, originality, and initiative in light of the challenges and opportunities that have been part of the applicant's immigration experience. The application is open to college seniors, students in the early stages of their graduate career, and those in the workforce who are seeking graduate training.

Full List of 2015 Fellows
Name, heritage, degree sought and university

• Mohamad Abedi, Palestinian, PhD in bioengineering at CalTech
• Oswaldo (Oz) Hasbún Avalos, El Salvadorian, MD at Columbia University
• Cecil Benitez, Mexican, MD at Stanford Medical School
• Shinichi Daimyo, Vietnamese and Japanese, MSN at Yale School of Nursing
• Daniela Delgado, Colombian, MD at Harvard Medical School
• Amal Elbakhar, Moroccan, JD at Harvard Law School
• Asmaa Elsayed, Egyptian, EdM in global education at Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Arash Fereydooni, Iranian, MD
• Krzysztof Franaszek, Polish, MD at Harvard Medical School and MIT
• Ledina Gocaj, Albanian, JD at Harvard Law School
• Tiffanie Hsu, Chinese and Taiwanese, MFA in directing at UCLA
• Ayan Hussein, Somalian, PhD in neuroscience at Yale University
• Evgeniya Kim, Uzbek and Korean, MBA at Yale School of Management
• Allen Lin, Taiwanese, PhD in systems biology at Harvard University
• Ismael Loera Fernandez, Mexican, PhD in chemistry at Rice University
• Paras Singh Minhas, Indian, MD and PhD in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine
• Polina Nazaykinskaya, Russian, DMA in composition and music theory at The Graduate Center, CUNY
• Minh-Duyen Thi Nguyen, Vietnamese, MD
• Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Nigerian, MD at UC Davis School of Medicine
• Sandra Portocarrero, Peruvian, PhD in sociology at Columbia University
• Yakir Reshef, Israeli, MD and PhD in computer science at Harvard Medical School and MIT
• Raeuf Roushangar, Egyptian and Iranian, PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology at Michigan State University
• Eugene Rusyn, Russian, JD at Yale Law School
• Andre Shomorony, Brazilian, MD at Harvard Medical School and MIT
• Sahar Soleimanifard, Iranian, MD at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• Stephanie Speirs, Korean and Chinese, MBA at MIT Sloan School of Management
• Gerald Chunt-Sein Tiu, Burmese, MD and PhD in genetics at Stanford University
• Katherine Karmen Trujillo, Honduran, MA in law and diplomacy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University
• Mark Minghao Xue, Chinese, MS in computer science at Stanford University
• Julie Zhu, Chinese, MFA in painting at Hunter College, CUNY

Turkish women athletes sports