SIHA Journal

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Cover -- Contents -- EDITORIAL -- Three Questions To: The Artist Sara Mekki Ahmed -- PEOPLE -- Choosing Engagement over Retreat. Ziba Mir-Hosseini's Quest for Equality within Islamic Traditions -- Al-Turabi and the Women of Sudan. Commitment to Women's Rights or Political Ambition? -- Al-Balabel: An Iconic Sudanese Female Band. Symbol of an Ambivalent Society or Fractured Patriarchy? -- The Hopes and Fears of Female Street Cleaners in Mogadishu -- Saadia Al-Salahi: A Pioneer Costume Designer from Sudan. What Clothes Say about A Society -- EQUALITY

Women's Inheritance in Islam. Between Text and Interpretation -- Unequal by Birth'. We are Muslims and Somalis, What Did We Do to Deserve this Cruel Treatment?' -- Wadjda -- A Film Review. Where Riding a Bicycle is Political -- Banned from Playing Football Before I Was Born -- Two Wives, One Man. The Struggle of Living as a Co-Wife -- Recalcitrance. A Poem by Eiman Adam -- BETWEEN TWO WORLDS -- Wielding Power over Women's Bodies. The Burkini Ban in France -- Meeting with the Novelist Leila Aboulela. Negotiating Religious and Class Identities across Borders

Living in Between. The Experience of a Muslim Convert -- Lived Realities of Ethiopian Domestic Workers in the Gulf Countries -- Letter To My Daughter -- THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE -- Urban Space and the Production of Gender in Modern Iran -- I Almost Got Arrested for Wearing Pants -- "Al Adal" -- Re-Infibulation and the Obsession with Virginity in Sudan -- War and State Collapse in Somalia. The Implications for Men and their Masculinity -- A Woman and a Purchased Slave. Gender Biases and Stereotypes in School Textbooks -- PERSPECTIVES -- Feminism and Politics in Sudan

Picking up the Pieces. How Counter-Terrorism Efforts affect Muslim Communities in Kenya -- Women of Sufism. A Hidden Treasure -- Being Young and Muslim in Uganda. Reflections from Joweria Namuyomba -- The Trouble with Fatwas -- DOSSIER: LIVING WITH RELIGIOUS MILITANCY -- Women of Political Islam and the Dialectic of Women's Rights. The Dilemma of Female Political Islamists -- Looking Back to Move Ahead. A Photo Story on Women's Dress in Somalia -- Coerced or Committed? Boko Haram's Female Suicide Bombers

The Tragedy of Seclusion. The Gender Segregated Communities of Hamashkoreib in Eastern Sudan -- Women and Islamic Militancy -- Timbuktu -- A Story About Us -- Afghan Women Hit by Mental Health Crisis -- The Echo -- SIHA Publications -- Back cover

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