Latest news stories and developments concerning Muslim women, including topics on the culture, rights, empowerment, and achievements of the Muslima.

FOMWAG raises funds to complete $5 million educational complex

Accra: The Federation of Muslim Women in Ghana (FOMWAG) has initiated a fund-raising campaign to raise over $5million for the completion of its school project at Achiaman in the Greater

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Study Abroad: Hijabis advised to chose schools in religiously tolerant communities

Young Muslim women seeking to study abroad have been advised to gauge the religious tolerance of the local communities of their prospective schools before selecting them.

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There is peace in accepting how Allah created you-Mufti Menk

Mufti Ismail ibn Musa Menk, the Grand Mufti of the Zimbabwean Muslim community, says people can only feel liberated from physical insecurities when they embrace how Allah has created them.

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Young FOMWAG launches 25th anniversary celebration

The celebration which will be climaxed with a workshop in December this year is organised under the theme, “25 Years of Empowering the Muslim Young Girl: Challenges and Prospects”.

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Jamila Dawud: the muslim scholar who studied english without going to school

Without secular education at the basic level, it is almost a certainty that one could not take full advantage of opportunities that acquiring a school certificate brings in terms of good job opportunities, and a good social life.  

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Al Qasimia University honours Ghana’s Jamila Dawud for Community Service

Jamila Dawud, a Ghanaian Muslim scholar has been awarded the Al Qasimiya University Distinguished Graduate in Community Service for her role in empowering women to study Islam

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Daughter makes mother prostrate at graduation

Accra – Fati Hamidu, mother of Fauzeeya Jamal-Deen had no option but to kneel and prostrate in public when the name of her daughter was mentioned as a receipt of

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Polygamy tips: How not to discuss polygamy with Muslim women

It must be admitted that polygyny (the accepted form of polygamy in Islam) is difficult for women with unguarded jealousy for love, wealth, and status.

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The Hijab Struggle: a story of fathers pouring sand into ‘Gari’ of daughters

The least said, an act of fathers raining down on the parade of their daughters. Where from the dagger that thrust down right through the head of every young Ghanaian

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American high school athlete disqualified from race for wearing hijab

Ohio – A high school cross-country runner was disqualified from a district meet despite running her fastest race of the season – because she was wearing a hijab. Noor Abukaram,

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