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Sertac Sehlikoglu (sertac)

http://www.muslimwomeninsports.blogspot.com

@MslmWomenSports

Cambridge

About sertac:

Social anthropologist, PhD student at the University of Cambridge. For academic interests, please check me out @ academia.edu

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Muslim Women in Sports

A 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 resource of collected materials on the subject.

Brunei to Send Its First Female Athlete to the Olympics

By Marc MCDONALD HONG KONG — The International Olympic Committee banned South Africa from the Olympics for nearly 30 years, until 1992, because of the repugnant official policy of apartheid that kept black athletes from competing. Nevertheless, the ...[Read on]

"Saudi Arabia turns deaf ear to Olympic women" by Eman Al Nafjan

Last Friday Sheikh Al Fowzan, ironically a member of the Saudi human rights commission, stated that the thought that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) might be implemented in Saudi Arabia make...[Read on]

Banking on Saudi Arabia - London may be first Olympic Games in which all nations field women

LONDON — The prospect of Saudi Arabia sending women athletes and officials to the Olympics for the first time has increased following talks with the IOC on a list of potential female competitors for the London Games. Saudi Arabia is one of three co...[Read on]

FIFA approve hijab and goal-line technology

Goal-line technology was approved in principle by the soccer's lawmakers on Saturday and could be used for the first time at FIFA's Club World Cup finals in Japan at the end of the year. The eight-man International Football Association Board said that the...[Read on]

FIFA to vote on lifting hijab ban, Prince Ali says scarf poses no danger

By Mary ORMSBYAustralian-Egyptian soccer player Assmaah Helal wears a Muslim head cover, or hijab, during a training session in Sydney. Elite footballer Assmaah Helal is a fanatic for the world game, but a controversial FIFA ban on Muslim women playing in...[Read on]

The Politics of FIFA and the Hijab

By Curtis R. RyanFIFA, the international federation for world soccer, is poised to make a decision in a few days that will impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of young Muslim women -- whether or not to overturn the current ban on the hijab, or heads...[Read on]

Seeking sports equality for women, Human Rights Watch should target Doha Olympic bid

By Philip Hersh Human Rights Watch is beating the drum this week about Saudi Arabia's discrimination against women athletes, noting among other things it is one of three countries never to have sent a woman to the Olympics. That effort should be ta...[Read on]

Muslim high school basketball player wears her faith with pride on court

Tabb's Yasmeen Amer (Kaitlin McKeown, Daily Press / February 2, 2012)By Marty O'Brien, mobrien@dailypress.com | 757-247-4963YORK —— There were times after Yasmeen Amer began wearing a hijab that she felt conf...[Read on]

Sign The Petition: Allow girls & women to play Football wearing the proper Headscarfs - Hijab

To Sign: http://www.change.org/petitions/allow-girls-women-to-play-football-wearing-headscarfs?utm_medium=email&utm_source=action_alert Why This Is Important: During youth Olympics Football Tournament in Singapore 2010, FIFA & the executi...[Read on]

With New Soccer Stadium, Saudi Women Finally Allowed to Watch The Game They Love

Written by James M. Dorsey Saudi Arabia is building its first stadium especially designed to allow women who are currently barred from attending soccer matches because of the kingdom’s strict public gender segregation to watch games. The sta...[Read on]

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NCAA Tennis Championships May 17 - 28: Dan Magill Tennis Complex	NCAA Golf Championships May 22 - 25: Vanderbilt Legends Club
WNBA Games May 22: 200 S Denver Ave Tulsa, OK 74103-5019

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