We have this thing about covering womens faces because its either too cute to fall and you dont want to get that attention or because. Families want to not show their womens faces and thats also comes from ownership of female body and Patriarchal Society is men feel like they have about right to tell a female in their family to cover her face or to cover her hair or her. And so i took the kind of to the next level and just removed my face so its became something of like lets say like a modern but our. Struggle to be a strong woman says. Target to be successful womens and we try so hard but theres a lot of people do try to bury us because baseball is paying but we are not good enough they dont want us to be in control they dont want to us to be successful. I dont go and bury myself by playing in their underwear it beats my chest that every time i breathe i can be seen the cracks of the clouds the choice to make creating. Scary. This is how i feel really about life. And im out of our city of sanaa. And no matter our city of sanaa. Suited to shine. Sunsets. I chose the springs because it means when every hardship come good things and i feel like. It relates to women struggling with just being women. You are the past the present and the future. That carries a love like you balance the mass of the world. To them ration when i see women stand up they will not conform to remarks about. The way that they dress women are not just a bag of flesh munisteri. So for years and centuries weve been science our bodies where became the battleground of patricks of racists now we are saying we have enough now we are mobilizing organizing across the countries including in europe you know added to reclaim our voices in your no other to reclaim our authority. To protest in iraq as capital robot under the law here having sex before or outside marriage can lead to a one year jail term the north african country also has harsh penalties for abortion. 28 year old journalist hasher isone stands accused of both offenses the case has driven many to protest and to demand selfdetermination for women. This standing up for their rights young muslim women worldwide expect more from life than their mothers and they put up with less they want legal equality for women with over that head scarves and at last the freedom to go out without a husband brother or father as guardian all across the muslim world women are fighting for social change. The story of mohammeds 1st wife the teacher continues to inspire muslim women today. How the child was especially because she was a very successful business woman she knew how to choose the right people to work for our Prophet Muhammad. She turned off a lot of marriages as being a respectable ritual but a lot of men proposed and at that time almost 1500 years she knew how to say no to me and shes the one who asked Prophet Muhammad to get married so she has the guts of note to say this is the man i can see the cult i think is good for me i will see if i ditch or was empowered she was an empowered to my. Sorrow marceau is a political scientist she works for the womens n. G. O. S in paris the group fights for equality and justice in muslim families her own family originally came from morocco as a teenager in france she encountered prejudice against her faith time and again. I was a well spoken child i was very loud and i was very proud to be able to memorize so many sweat from the what i and and if any being the elder daughter of an in mom is not easy because the Community Looks up to you but when i was young i didnt feel this pressure i was actually looking up to my father i liked reading that and outloud in the mosque i wanted to become like him i wanted to be able to preach to the need to prayer and at that time and while growing up i didnt really see the money for stations of i try to keep within my own religion because i was too busy fighting against islamophobia and racism in society in school in there looking for a job relation activities and just in the streets. In france where gender equality is enshrined in the constitution and religion is strictly separated from the state many people are critical of conservative islam. Since the islamist terrorist attacks of 2015 the number of islamophobia attacks in the country has increased many other directed against muslim women. For all 3rd and muslim feminist. They are the problem isnt religion or the koran but patriarchy. Elmers rar was born in hanover the daughter of moroccan immigrants she argues for an open and critical interpretation of islam and she puts muslim gender cliches under the microscope. They sound just traditionally islam is a crabtree arkell religion it has to be sit tight at least that doesnt mean and ive explored this in my account emancipation in islam is that the situation so woman has it improved with islam. I did it also funguses the role of the woman in islam whether she can be emancipated within islam is one of the Big Questions of our time because we talk a lot about islam around the world not just in germany or europe is emancipation possible islam id say yes but its incredibly dependent on who interprets the religion and what mindset she has leaked guys. To. Since the 2011 revolution the country on the mediterranean coast has been in a state of upheaval. The islamic scholar at demos she charged was a member of the commission for individual liberties and equal rights its goal was to find solutions to achieve more rights for women. In the. Traditional islam cannot stand in the way of the emancipation of women need of. Christianity or judaism they should say it cant in principle but because the position of women was always explicitly inferior in the monotheistic religious traditions. Explains all 3 religions. So we have to make a distinction for that between the religion itself. And the tradition that stems from religion. In paris the cmon via prizes being awarded its named after the Health Minister who fought for abortion rights in france in 1975. 1 of the nominees zain of. The french moroccan worked for many years with the satirical magazine show the 2. In 201512 people were killed in an attack on the magazines office. Since then we has been one of frances fiercest critics of islam. Dont consume their farm in islam the woman is worth less than a man and is subject to him net. Women are dependent on their guardianship their money their will their sexual desires which the woman is not allowed to resist no matter if she has a wife or a lover. As soon as the woman rejects the model prescribed by society she is denigrated as a whore for she is a woman without morals in the eyes of society. Levanon has a long christian tradition but muslims make up the majority of the population. 30 years after the civil war the country is divided along demographic lines. Her dad grew up in a conservative catholic family the experience made her an atheist the lebanese journalist breaks to boost with her weekly t. V. Program the topic today violence against women it happens in my society and in other arab societies women are rigid. As to whats between their legs this is how men conceive honor the honor of the family of their own honor is tied to a what a woman does with her body she is denied the basic right of sexual freedom and even if she is suspected to have done maybe some thing that is not right by the standards of. The social and religious norms she is killed the main problem is that this killer this is sas and. Gets away with it because it is called a crime of honor and. Its a crime of this honor its a crime point this sun this song from birth to death a woman constantly here is the words schumacher and. How im sure my mind is shame dont be disgraceful thats what they used to say to us girls shush and mean sin how dumb so those are the 2 words that accompany a woman all her life how between shame and sin sex some of us want to snatch theres a bit of freedom is out there its not merely says who put the book there was a buffet says. Its. Due to. To the old to the old us to. The old. Where theyre called. Me mother am i in that mean. Fact that led to mean doing it again. He laid her own hand. On sally. I let him. Go bare are many me going. Ga in no manner as beginning. Let his word out mariam marry in what and i have chosen this because its a sweater that celebrates women who would and creation and we find occurrences of the divine feminine in this verses through the ward at ramen the merciful which comes from the root word from the womb. Islamic feminist discourse operates at 2 levels on the one hand its a scholarship that critically revisit and pack dominant religious interpretations that are discriminatory against woman on the 2nd hand it also aims to produce new knowledge that makes a case for gender equality but within an islamic about a dying the objective of the communist movement in its purity is to challenge this patrick or reading and to bring in woman lances to bring in feminist tenses in the way we understand and we approach islamic textual sources. Sarahs role at most is knowledge building coordinator. In 2009 the n. G. Began working in kuala lumpur more than 250 activists islamic scholars and lawyers from 47 countries to part in a call for equality and justice in muslim families. And religious values was central to the appeal of those who believe that islamic feminism is an exam run or that islam and feminism are contradictory in fact they need to check their own assumptions when you believe in feminism you cant exclude other woman and other struggles from this collective struggle but a wise youre not true to your feminist ethics. 3 islamic feminists of most especially one to empower a practicing muslim women to help them and cause their rights as mothers wives and said listen. According to islamic tradition men hold sway over women as guardians they decide on education independence work choice of husband. Tunisian fauzi as sheriff he has been a muslim feminist ever since she was young. She studied physics in paris in the 950. 00 s. For a long time she taught at the university of tunis one of the few women to do so. Shes concerned that women internees in cities are increasingly wearing head scarves again. Simply cool i like think back to that time of birth. I met my father and mother of it and so i have been back then the women were all dressed like europeans. General to my comment i love to share my grandmother also for because she didnt always wear headscarves it too tough in that when she was at home she was just herself. Just slightly egyptian women to new zealand women whove been struggling since the start of the 20th century to defend himself. In 1956 tunisia gained its independence the 1st president had people saw him self as an advocate for women he should inconsiderable improvements like the prohibition of polygamy divorce laws and the introduction of a minimum age for marriage. Girls and women gained access to schools universities and the labor market. And. He was. Elected with independence in 1986 president paul gilbert took the hill on i rationalize that well have all the he was convinced that women should be emancipated and good if not and women were supported by their fathers and grandfathers very early on if thats how it was with me my father thought that academic success was very important. For you always made sure that my Educational Development was taken as seriously as my brothers cute or minted because the more. The guys oh heck mcadam me of sciences is located on the gulf of tunis 5 thick volumes of books originated here titled the quranic text and its variants up them as she char favored for years on the contextualization of the quran jewish and christian sources were analyzed including aramaic and syrian literature the latest edition sheds new light on the familiar text. On the quran it sounds as revelation wasnt taxed sit next. To a fixed written text. So the document we have today this revelation soon you know is merely the work of. It isnt the revelation itself. I do believe the work we do helps muslims and also nor muslims to do away with literally nothing of the text. Lift you have used to detect sitting there its an approach that usually leads to greater interest in the spirit of the text. Rather than in the literal meaning to castle that. Nearly all of the quran 114 suras contain a lot of ambiguity. So we ask question how do we know what we know how do we know if this interpretation is actually an interpretation of what god had in mind how do we know if this is a source of authority why this male scholars through the centuries had more authority than a woman today living in one context were understand the stakes for her own experience from a womans perspective tunisia is the most liberal Muslim Country in the region even so reforms are needed islamic scholar of for yourself has written extensively on issues like inheritance law polygamy and homosexuality as they relate to the quran use of compares the interpretations of male scholars from the middle ages to those of today and critiques their positions because of that shes been threatened by islamists whenever he allowed. To a lot of but i dont know. That it is a thought that in less than well out of the. Table where you. Are not. Yet. A lot a lot. Thought but sure are 20 for the light verse 35. 00 plus this 1st goes very much to my heart because it addresses god as light as. It will could do i see this light as the spark of consciousness that encompasses everything people animals and things do you know it confirms that god is everything and that there is only one. To kill existence god. Knew. That no one knows the interpretation but god let me go so problem isnt ambiguity on the contrary of course that i think these ambiguous readings are an asset and they allow the text to open up the Public School more the problem comes when someone thinks ok this is the meaning. Left this is the truth and im going to impose it on others there. Was a cult or you read the koran you cant just settle for what other people say you can listen to the ask questions if you read books in fact you should and sometimes you must but above all you have to take responsibility for your own interpretation. Christianity and this is all 3 religions refer to a common patriarch favor. I believe that there are women who are trying to reconcile their faith with. Their own Human Dignity however they can but personally i believe feminism is either secular or its not especially if were talking about the model taste religions theyre very patriarchal all 3 of them i mean women is just so great that islamic feminists have turned on. Humans for the equality of man and woman in the quran story of creation in sorrow for verse one god didnt create the woman from the river of the man he created an original soul nuff sane way to attain which is a feminine term in arabic. And took muslims from the injustices of their time to the justice of the time it gave women many important rights in the patriotic culture of 7th century arabia but at that time the National Justice didnt include the idea of equality between man and woman because gender equality is a modern concept. In us shape born why did. I. Marry or why he had. Earned. Her being in a lonely arisings eli lee of you with you are really. All. Lady mostly. Of. I chose this year because of how i feel beginning because i love forgiveness. God created forgiveness immensely even before he was asked for forgiveness and won the powerball. Doesnt spend much time in france anymore she left the country because of rising islamophobia and now lives in london. She too sees islam as a source of empowerment for women its said that mohammed gave dignity back to disenfranchised women. In previous lamech society in arabia women had the same status as animals or possessions they didnt have the right to inheritance they were the inheritance girls were killed at birth then islam came along and said no women must also have the right to inherit that change in women status back then was revolutionary women with no rights who could be killed given away became people with the right to inherit property. Put simply sirrah for verse 11 states that a woman should inherit about half of what a man gets. The reason for the unequal treatment is that women didnt usually bear responsibility for providing for their family. So it was taken for granted that men should be allocated the larger share of an inheritance. So this is. The verse says that half the share of inheritance is the guaranteed minimum for women but there is nothing wrong with giving more than that. These days women work they participate in family life i split expenses with my husband 50 also the more money as a whole also i pay my taxes like a man simple like any citizen or. Is it actually justifiable through religion that i only get half. As much as my parents inheritance. When the quran doesnt oppose the quality in that situation will force but i think they get to know me oh. The quran and laus men to have up to 4 wives critics of islam claim this is no such an e an instrument of male domination. There are 3 verses that talk about i think you mean the question is what i to new say in this what are the right of the woman and you look at the 1st verse it gives you the 1st step solution you can marry 1. 00 to 4. 00 wives so you cant now mary 10. 15 it is restricted then you have a 2nd verse that comes and says you have to treat all of these wives equally so you cant just its not just a maximum you also have to keep in mind justice and equality but then you have a 3rd verse that comes and these folk verse what does this say is its not actually even if you want to be equal god knows that you cant be male into potatoes for patrick to look at this verse and say the quran gave me the right to marry 4 wives but they dont look at the 2 order verses do you treat them equally even if you claim that you do god says that you cant. The head scarf for women is one of his lungs most controversial requirements especially in the west that what is the quran actually say. And can feminists wear headscarves. One of those often takes to a fantasy were here in a french context in an environment that is vehemently opposed to the headscarf i am a rebel to a militant feminist it would look i dont want anyone to tell me whether i can wear a headscarf or not. Im lucky enough not to be pressured by anyone in my family my family my mother was against me wearing one in senegal but i told her that i hadnt asked for her opinion and you. Should want i want to wear one day and not the next i dont care what people think its awful. So in the name of gender equality we are now denying a muslim woman to control their own bodies to appear in the public space we are punishing them by excluding them from the schools and now there are people who talk about banning the double so in university we are excluding them from work places where explaining them from nature activities in the minds of right we movements and french radical 2nd there is they became an obsession. This is. Vast most often used to prescribe for socalled islamic hands graphic to separate. Good is a vast that simply says to leave the covering can be used by the femal