Convert British Author Aisha Bewley Titled Muslim Woman of The Year
New Age Islam News Bureau
24 November 2022
• Nada Al Ahdal, Yemeni Child Bride Activist Leading
The Fight Against The Scourge Of Early Marriage
• Afghan Women Protest On Eve Of UN Day Against
Violence
• Two Girls Found Murdered In Syria's Notorious Al-Hol
Islamic State Camp
• DCW Chief Issues Notice To Imam Of Jama Masjid In
New Delhi; "Girls/Women Are Not Permitted To Enter Jama Masjid
Alone," Read The Signboards
• SC To Set Up Fresh 5-Judge Bench To Hear Pleas
Challenging Polygamy And ‘Nikah Halala’ Among Muslims
• How Saudi Arabia's Historic World Cup Win Over
Argentina Is Inspiring Female Players
• Mohamed Bin Zayed Receives UAE Armed Forces Women’s
Climbing Team
Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau
URL: https://newageislam.com/islam-women-feminism/convert-british-author-aisha-bewley/d/128479
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Convert British Author Aisha Bewley Titled Muslim
Woman of The Year
Aisha Bewley was awarded the
title after being recognised for her immense work and contributions to Islamic
scholarship.
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November 24, 2022
Every year, The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre
(RISSC) publish a list of 500 of the most influential Muslims in the world. As
part of that, they also feature a Muslim Woman of the Year as well as a Muslim
Man of the Year. This year, Aisha Bewley was awarded the title after being
recognised for her immense work and contributions to Islamic scholarship.
Bewley has been – and continues to be – a
world-renowned and accomplished translator of classical Islamic literature.
After converting to Islam in 1968, she spent over five decades learning
everything she could about Islam. She graduated with an MA in Near Eastern
Languages from the University of California at Berkley and continued her
studies at the American University in Cairo. Since graduating, Bewley has
worked tirelessly to make Islamic literature available to the English-speaking
Muslim community.
Her greatest accomplishment was translating the Holy
Qur’an to English with the support of her husband, Abdalhaqq Bewley. Both
worked on the project for several years, after which the entire translation was
published as ‘The Noble Quran’.
A great deal of what she has worked on has been
published for free online. Students, teachers and many reverts have taken to
the internet to benefit from her resources without any charge.
As well as being a prolific translator, Bewley is
well-versed in Islam’s basic teachings and history. Thanks to her many efforts
in travelling and seeking knowledge, her understanding of Islam is not confined
to the methods utilised in academia.
Aisha Bewley’s Published Works
Most notable of all, Bewley has translated The Noble
Qur’an in collaboration with her husband. She has also translated the Tafsir of
al-Qurtubi (so far 6 volumes have been published), the Muwatta of Imam Malik,
Tabaqat Ibn Sa’d and the Risalah of Ibn Zayd al-Qayrawani.
As well as being a translator, she is also an author
in her own right. Covering a wide range of topics, she is the author of The
Subatomic World in the Qur’an (Diwan Press, 1980); Islam: The Empowering of
Women (TaHa, 1999), and Democratic Tyranny and the Islamic Paradigm (Diwan
Press, 2018).
According to the report by RISSC, she has also
lectured at Dallas College in Cape Town and Lady Aisha College in Cape Town.
The report also states that “alongside this work, she travelled with her
husband and family to many countries, including Nigeria, Bermuda, Germany and
Spain, spreading knowledge of Islam and helping establish communities of
Muslims, seeking to follow the first Madinan model. Her life’s work has been
remarkable and her intellectual output truly significant; long may it
continue.”
Source: British Muslim
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Nada Al Ahdal, Yemeni Child Bride Activist Leading The
Fight Against The Scourge Of Early Marriage
'I have a lot of work to
do,' Nada Al Ahdal says. 'Girls need me to save their lives so that’s my focus.
I don’t want to be a housewife now or in the future. I want to be a
change-maker.' Photo: Nada Al Ahdal
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Nada AlTaher | Jacqueline Fuller
Nov 24, 2022
When Nada Al Ahdal accepted an Arab Women of the Year
award for social awareness at a star-studded ceremony in London this year, the
child bride activist wore white.
It is her favourite colour — as though, in her fight
against an abhorrent, centuries-old custom, Al Ahdal has defiantly reclaimed
something symbolic of the pain and grief that marked her early years in Yemen.
“Seeing the suffering of my sister when she tried to
commit suicide the same way my aunt did by burning herself … unfortunately, I
didn’t have the childhood I was supposed to,” she tells The National.
“Especially when my parents decided to end my life by
selling me in the name of marriage to a man when I was only 11. Our place, as a
child, is in school playing, feeling safe around our parents, not threatened by
them.
“I knew that white wedding dress would burn me like it
did my aunt and my sister.”
Horrified at the result of the hopelessness that
overwhelmed her aunt Hashima, 14, and eldest sister Nadia, 13, Al Ahdal
resolved not to be the family’s next child bride victim.
The journey to save herself propelled the young Al
Ahdal to international attention, with interest sustained ever since by the
campaign she leads to give victims an escape route like the one her uncle
Abdelsalem provided.
“Not every girl will find a man or a relative who will
protect her from child marriage,” she says. “That’s why we speak out for the
girls, so people give them attention and see what’s going on in some Arab
countries – not only in Yemen.”
With “Girls Not Brides” at the heart of its mission,
the Nada Foundation enshrines education as a fundamental right of children, and
the means of social change and economic growth.
Several of its programmes aim to form “a bridge” to
the rest of the world, offering English lessons to girls aged 13 to 18
displaced by domestic violence, conflict, early marriage or other abuses, and
access to remote learning through international universities.
They will, if she has her way, become the future
peacemakers, journalists, activists, political leaders and humanitarians who
will rebuild Yemen after the war.
It is apt that the foundation enabled Al Ahdal’s own
education. After fleeing her homeland, she lived in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan
and Kenya, never remaining more than a year because she was either not allowed
to study or did not have the right to stay.
An invitation to England to receive a With and For
Girls prize at the Women of the World festival in 2020 set her on a new path.
“Moving from country to country when I was really,
really young — it affected me a lot," she says. "My education
stopped. So when I came to the UK I had to start from zero. I now have a year
left in college but I’m doing great progress. I want to study international
law.”
These days, Al Ahdal lives with Abdelsalem, whom she
calls “Amo” (Arabic for uncle), in Newcastle, where she is sitting her GCSE
mock exams in maths and English this week.
Any available downtime is spent capturing her lost
childhood: making mischief with her adopted “brother” Akram, drawing, reading
and indulging a passion for football, ice cream and billiards.
Abdelsalem might have cause to regret imparting the
rudiments of the latter. “My uncle taught me, and now the student beats the
teacher,” she jokes.
Music is another source of pleasure with Selena Gomez
a particular favourite, as well as a Yemeni artist whose name escapes her. “He
sings,” she says, before giving voice to a snippet of lyrics: “Aadek illa
sagheer, badri aleik el hawa.”
The song is by Abu Bakr Salem and was inspired by the
moment friends spotted his son, then nine, in intimate conversation with a girl
his age.
Its wording — loosely translated as “you are still
young, it’s too early to fall in love” — though arising from a different
context, is not entirely out of place in Al Ahdal’s narrative.
When discussing the subject, she does not rule out the
possibility of dating but it is clearly a distant priority even as a woman now
at the age of 20.
“I have a lot of work to do,” Al Ahdal says. “Girls
need me to save their lives so that’s my focus. I don’t want to be a housewife
now or in the future. I want to be a change-maker.”
The sound of her voice is stunning in spite of her
protests to the contrary, and testament to the singing group that Abdelsalem
would take the young Nada to perform with in Sanaa.
Those sessions were among the few positive memories
she has of childhood when she dreamt of moving to the capital from the family
home in Zabid to study medicine or teaching.
Their recollection, though, is invariably marred by
thoughts of the precious times that she played and sang with Hashima.
“My aunt was my best friend. After she got married,
they would not allow me to play with her because of the idea that married girls
were not allowed to play with single girls. We were children. She was a child.”
A year later, Hashima was dead after dousing herself
in petrol and lighting it, leaving behind an infant daughter. Al Ahdal is still
haunted by a photograph of her aunt, face blackened, in a death shroud, and
speaks of the hatred she bears for the man whose physical and mental cruelty
drove her to suicide.
“She had no hope so she had to end her life. I saw the
picture of her burnt and dead, and then my sister followed,” she recalls,
though Nadia survived.
Al Ahdal tended to Nadia’s self-immolation wounds,
bringing water and food, little suspecting that she had been put forward as her
sister’s matrimonial replacement.
“She was lying down in bed, and it was awful because
my family told me my wedding would be in three days so that’s what made me run
away," she says.
What she was yet to learn, Al Ahdal says, was that the
marriage had already been formalised. All that remained was for the religious
ceremony to be held.
She recounts an escape from an earlier arrangement
made with a 26-year-old wealthy expatriate for $2,000 when she was 10 thanks to
the intervention of her father’s brother. Abdelsalem, for his part, has said:
“I could not allow her to be married off and have her future destroyed.”
His help was sought a second time but he was out of
town on a business trip to Saudi Arabia and Al Ahdal turned to an acquaintance
out of desperation.
The harrowing two-minute video she subsequently
uploaded to reach him and refute her parents’ claim that she had been kidnapped
went viral after a YouTube user added English captions.
“I escaped from my parents,” a tiny, wide-eyed Al
Ahdal says. “I am 11 years old and my mum wants me to marry. Is there no mercy
in their hearts? I would rather die. They threaten me with death if I go to my
uncle. I would rather die than go live with them. They killed our dreams. This
is a crime … a crime.”
The allegations of child bride pacts and the threat of
an honour killing were denied by her parents, and questions were raised about
their veracity by sceptics who accused her of making up parts of the story.
But activists and human rights groups rallied as the
plea received nearly eight million views in three days, and it was later shown
at the months-long National Dialogue Conference created under the Gulf
initiative in 2011 to produce a new Yemeni constitution.
“Social media saved my life,” she explains. “After
that, I came to believe in speaking out in the name of other girls and
spreading awareness that will help save their lives. The people will turn into
an army, defend, protect and find a solution for her. That’s what I’m trying to
do now.”
Al Ahdal and her uncle appealed to the Yemeni Ministry
of Interior, which, in conjunction with a child welfare organisation, detained
her for 10 days during negotiations with members of the family.
In the end, the marriage was annulled, an agreement
was put in place that no new pacts would be arranged before she was 18, and
legal responsibility was transferred to Abdelsalem in, at times, stormy scenes
filmed by CNN.
But if Al Ahdal had been astonished by the response
from communities around the world, she was dismayed by that of her own.
She was the target of negativity from elements of
Yemeni society angered at the public spurning of a practice all the more
entrenched in recent years in a country plagued by poverty.
State officials pressured the Ministry of Interior and
Al Ahdal says she was intercepted returning from an interview with a TV station
in Lebanon.
She recalls having her passport confiscated, being
held again, and made to sign a document banning comments about child marriage
in the press or on social media.
Towards the end of 2015, the French publishing house
Michel Lafon released her autobiographical La Rosee du Matin (The Morning Dew),
and an invitation arrived for a book-signing event in Paris.
While attempting to leave through Aden, Al Ahdal says
she and Abdelsalam were bundled into a military vehicle at gunpoint by Al
Qaeda, driven to a compound, and interrogated.
“For the first three days, we didn’t see daylight — we
were blindfolded. They were investigating, ‘Who is supporting you?'" she
says, explaining the group's suspicion that she was being used as a puppet by a
foreign country or NGO.
The uncle and niece were held for 14 days, she says,
during which they could hear the screams of other captives — and sometimes
their silence after the sound of a gunshot.
The militants, forced to relocate on December 6 by a
car bomb attack claimed by ISIS that killed the governor of Aden, again
blindfolded the pair, drove near to the abduction site, and released them.
Al Ahdal was offered a visa by Saudi King Salman and
years later would step forward, radiant in that white shirt and trousers
ensemble, to dedicate the prestigious London Arabia award to Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman and the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El Sisi, for
championing women’s rights.
In Riyadh, she met the Prime Minister of Yemen, Ahmed
bin Dagher, and with his backing set up the Nada Foundation while continuing
her education.
“But the head of the school said that I, being famous
for showing social media about child marriage, would brainwash the other girls.
She told me to study at home but I refused,” she says.
Eventually, Al Ahdal settled in England which, in many
ways, represents what she wished for growing up. “I love everything about the
UK. That’s the thing I was fighting to have. When I speak, I feel safe. I don’t
feel like someone will harm me because I’m saying something against their
tradition or ideas.”
She now stands as champion to countless girls, but it
all began with Abdelsalem’s provision of safety, unstinting emotional and
financial support, and hope as an exemplar of enlightenment.
“What made my uncle really different is education.
That’s why we [at the foundation] believe in education," she says.
“He was seeing what was going on in my family, and
knew it was wrong. That’s what I’m saying is a miracle because he is trying his
best for a future for me. I don’t think every girl has this chance.”
The debt of gratitude to Abdelsalem includes his
efforts at winning her parents round to the cause. During the most difficult
discussions, Al Ahdal summoned thoughts of the ever-present danger of early
betrothals faced by her five sisters.
All these years later, her shoulders hunch, the words
come more slowly and her eyes well up, as she recalls the first encounter two
days after the state took away guardianship.
“My mum said: ‘If my daughter comes back, I will break
every bone in her body so she can’t walk again.’ After that, I bought a cake
and flowers for her. She was so angry she threw everything on the ground and
shouted many things like: ‘You’re not my daughter any more.’
“It took a long time but we managed. I’m really proud
that they gave me a chance to speak to them and change their ideas. There’s not
one girl in my family who is married or getting married before the age of 18.”
The importance of this conversion in propelling Al
Ahdal onwards in her mission to stop young girls from being sold “like sheep”
cannot be underestimated.
Her grandmother was married at nine, her mother at 13.
The custom was followed by the family for generations, revisited as a matter of
course on each woman down the line — until now.
She sums up the achievement simply but with a deep
conviction: “I made them believe in girls’ rights.”
The one vow that the indomitable Al Ahdal was prepared
to take willingly in childhood was to see to it that other families do the
same.
Source: The National News
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Afghan women protest on eve of UN day against violence
24 November ,2022
More than a dozen Afghan women protested briefly in
Kabul Thursday, calling for their rights to be recognized on the eve of the
UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Afghan women have been squeezed out of public life
since the Taliban’s return to power in August last year, but small groups have
staged flash protests that are usually quickly shut down, sometimes violently.
“We will fight for our rights to the end and we will
not surrender,” read a sign in the Dari language carried by one of the
protesters.
Most of the group wore dark sunglasses, their heads
covered with a veil and a surgical mask obscuring their face.
Taliban fighters kept a close eye on proceedings,
while cars marked with the logo of the intelligence services circled the
neighborhood.
Most women government workers have lost their jobs --
or are being paid a pittance to stay at home -- since the Taliban returned to
power.
Women have also been barred from travelling without a
male relative, and must cover up with a burqa or hijab when outside the home.
Earlier this month the Taliban barred women from
entering parks, funfairs, gyms and public baths.
Schools for teenage girls have also been shuttered
across most of the country.
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence
against Women is usually marked around the world on November 25.
According to the UN, violence against women and girls
remains the most widespread human rights violation in the world, affecting one
in three women -- a figure largely unchanged over the past 10 years.
Source: Al Arabiya
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Two Girls Found Murdered In Syria's Notorious Al-Hol
Islamic State Camp
Sultan al-Kanj
November 24, 2022
Al-Hol camp in northeast Syria's Hasakah province
houses more than 65,000 people including around 20,000 children. The majority
are women, wives and widows of IS fighters. Several foreign countries have
refused to repatriate their nationals held in the camp.
An additional 2,000 women from 57 countries and their
approximately 8,000 children are placed in a separate, heavily guarded section
of the camp known as the Annex.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a
British-based monitoring group, reported Nov. 16 that security forces affiliated
with the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria found
the bodies of two girls in the sewers of al-Hol camp.
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According to the group, “The two bodies that were
found belonged to two minors of Egyptian nationality who went missing and were
found killed with a sharp object within the immigrants' section of the camp.”
A camp resident called Umm Mariam told Al-Monitor via
WhatsApp, “The girls were killed after they refused to wear the Islamic veil.
It looks like they were sexually assaulted before the killing. In the camp,
there are extremist women who force other women to adhere to the hijab and to
refrain from mingling with men, and anyone who deviates from such orders is
reprimanded, killed or isolated. Most of the extremist women are Tunisian,
Iraqi, Uzbek, and Turkestan, though there are also Syrian women who are very
radical.”
She added, “The IS women have set up courts inside the
camp to prosecute women who deviate from the teachings of IS, and the court is
supervised by Umm Hajar al-Iraqiya, who previously worked in IS’ Hisba
apparatus,” which was IS' morality police.
She went on, “Women in the camp are often killed
because of their violations of IS’ teachings. But some are killed for other
reasons, while others, including men and children, are killed over suspicions
of working for the SDF and the international coalition. Also, a number of camp
guards affiliated with the SDF have been killed, along with men who openly
cooperated with the SDF.”
Hammam Issa, a Syrian journalist in Idlib, told
Al-Monitor, “Al-Hol camp is a source of funding for IS, which smuggles women
out of it in exchange for money." He said some women also receive money
from relatives outside via SDF agents who take a cut and give a portion to IS.
Issa added, “IS uses the money to arm women and have
them carry out operations inside the camp. Each time the SDF conducts mass
arrests and raids inside the camp, IS cells outside the camp target SDF forces
in revenge."
He said, "Meanwhile, children continue to be
trapped in al-Hol camp under miserable conditions. The longer they stay there,
the greater the risks of these children being killed or recruited by IS.”
Source: Al Monitor
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DCW Chief Issues Notice To Imam Of Jama Masjid In New
Delhi; "Girls/Women Are Not Permitted To Enter Jama Masjid Alone,"
Read The Signboards
by: Aditya Paul
Nov 24, 2022
New Delhi: Delhi Commission for Women's chief Swati
Maliwal issued a notice to the Imam of Jama Masjid after the entry of solitary
or group of girls at the mosque was prohibited. The DCW chief said that
"no one has the right to ban the entry of women like this."
The DCW chief said in a Twitter post, "The
decision to stop the entry of women in Jama Masjid is absolutely wrong. As much
as a man has the right to worship, so also a woman. I am issuing notice to the
Imam of Jama Masjid."
As Muslim women continue to battle for their rights
around the world, the famous Jama Masjid in New Delhi has taken an unusual step
to prohibit girls from entering the mosque.
As per reports, the Jama Masjid management has issued
an order preventing single or small groups of girls from entering the mosque.
The Jama Masjid administration has also posted signs
outside the mosque notifying tourists that girls are not allowed inside. The
sign boards are located outside the mosque's three entrances. "Girls/women
are not permitted to enter Jama Masjid alone," read the signboards.
However, women will be permitted to enter the Mosque
with their husbands or families, according to the masjid administration. People
took offence and even criticised the administration for issuing the directive,
calling it a "fundamentalist mentality."
Meanwhile, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has
criticised the decision, calling it "anti-women." It also encouraged
the Women and Child Development Ministry and the National Women Commission to
act in the case.
Source: Times Now News
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SC to set up fresh 5-judge bench to hear pleas
challenging polygamy and ‘nikah halala’ among Muslims
24 November, 2022
New Delhi, Nov 24 (PTI) The Supreme Court said on
Thursday it will set up a fresh five-judge Constitution bench to hear the pleas
challenging the constitutional validity of polygamy and ‘nikah halala’ among
Muslims.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and
Justices Hima Kohli and J B Pardiwala was urged by lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay, who
has filed a PIL on the issue, that a fresh five-judge bench was needed to be
constituted as two judges of the previous bench-Justice Indira Banerjee and
Justice Hemant Gupta- have demitted office.
“We will form a bench,” the CJI responded.
On August 30, a five-judge bench comprising Justices
Indira Banerjee, Hemant Gupta, Surya Kant, M M Sundresh and Sudhanshu Dhulia
had made the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), National Commission for
Women (NCW) and the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) parties to the
PILs and sought their responses.
Later, Justice Banerjee and Justice Gupta retired on
September 23 and October 16 this year respectively giving rise to the need for
re-constitution of the bench to hear as many as eight petitions against the
practices of polygamy and ‘nikah halala’.
Upadhyay, in his PIL, has sought a direction to
declare polygamy and ‘nikah halala’ unconstitutional and illegal.
The apex court had in July 2018 considered the plea
and referred the matter to a Constitution bench already tasked with hearing a
batch of similar petitions.
The apex court had issued notice to the Centre on the
petition filed by a woman named Farjana and tagged Upadhyay’s plea to a batch
of petitions to be heard by the Constitution bench.
The lawyer’s petition sought declaring extrajudicial
talaq a cruelty under Section 498A (husband or his relatives subjecting a woman
to cruelty) of of the IPC. It claimed nikah halala is an offence under Section
375 (rape) of the IPC, and polygamy a crime under Section 494 (Marrying again
during life-time of husband or wife) of the IPC, 1860.
The apex court, which on August 22, 2017 banned the
age-old practice of instant ‘triple talaq’ among Sunni Muslims, had on March
26, 2018 decided to refer to a larger bench a batch of pleas challenging the
constitutional validity of polygamy and ‘nikah halala’.
While polygamy allows a Muslim man to have four wives,
‘nikah halala’ is a process under which a divorced Muslim woman has to first
marry another person, consummate it and get a divorce from the second husband,
if the couple were to remarry after a compromise.
The pleas were referred to a larger bench by the
Supreme Court after an earlier five-judge constitution bench in its 2017
verdict kept open the issue of polygamy and ‘nikah halala’ while quashing the
practice of ‘triple talaq’.
It had also issued notices to the Law and Justice
Ministry, the Minority Affairs Ministry and the National Commission of Women
(NCW) at that time.
Some petitions have also challenged the practices of
‘Nikah Mutah’ and ‘Nikah Misyar’ — two types of temporary marriages where
duration of the relationship is specified and agreed upon in advance.
In one of the petitions, a woman named Sameena Begum
has said by virtue of the Muslim Personal Law, Section 494 of the Indian Penal
Code (punishment for marrying again during lifetime of husband or wife) was
rendered inapplicable to Muslims and no married woman from the community has
the avenue of filing a complaint against her husband for the offence of bigamy.
Another plea was filed by Rani alias Shabnam who
alleged that she and her three minor children were thrown out of the
matrimonial home after her husband remarried. She has sought the practices of
polygamy and ‘nikah halala’ to be declared unconstitutional.
A similar plea was filed by Delhi-based Nafisa Khan
seeking almost the same reliefs.
She has sought declaring the Dissolution of Muslim
Marriages Act, 1939 unconstitutional and violative of Articles 14, 15, 21 and
25 (freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of
religion) of the Constitution in so far as it fails to secure for Indian Muslim
women protection from bigamy which has been statutorily secured for women in
India belonging to other religions. PTI SJK SJK SK SK
Source: The Print
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How Saudi Arabia's historic World Cup win over
Argentina is inspiring female players
Mariam Nihal
Nov 22, 2022
Female football players and fans across the kingdom
are celebrating their national team's historic victory over two-time World Cup
winners Argentina on Tuesday.
Women celebrated alongside men, calling the victory
over the team of football star Lionel Messi “just the beginning”, as the team
looks to build on its biggest day.
As the men's team reaches new heights, female fans now
believe the women's team will not be far behind.
Last year, the women's national football team was
launched, with more that 50,000 young girls signing up for the first ever
schools league.
The team won their first international game in
February when they beat Seychelles 2-0 in a friendly match.
“This is the power of great leadership of our Crown
Prince Mohammed bin Salman. I am overwhelmed,” said Hadeel AlFadl from Jeddah.
“No one expected Saudi Arabia to beat Argentina. A new
dream is born for all young Saudis. My heart is full.”
“This is just the beginning. It shows our men and
women are more than qualified, they are winners on the global scale and can
achieve what they set their minds to. I have more hope now, and it is surely
inspiring for women and future generations of the kingdom.”
Football is regarded as the national sport and is
extremely popular with people of all ages.
The women's team was officially established by the
Saudi Arabian Football Federation in 2019, which currently hosts 450 registered
players, 49 qualified referees and more than 900 coaches.
“We have been raised watching and playing football and
it is our favourite sport — one we can watch with our grandparents and
children,” said Lujain Ahmed, a Saudi football player and fan in Jeddah.
“Today's victory will be remembered forever. Our
women's team is phenomenal, and I hope they shine as bright and win many more
titles soon.”
“My heart exploded. This [win] is the magic of
positive leadership — how one man can give so much confidence to his country
and youth,” Salma Mohammed, a football fan in Jeddah, told The National.
“I loved the reaction video and pictures of the Crown
Prince, we feel the pride and joy for our home country and for our team that
showed us they are winners.
“My girls who play football with me watched the game
at my grandfather's house — he has a huge projector and hall which we use for
occasions like these.”
Diana Wijaya, a football fan in Khobar, said: “We're
dying because we are so happy. My friends and I watched the game together at
home and we took to the streets to see the parades and celebrate this historic
win.”
Source: The National News
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Mohamed Bin Zayed receives UAE Armed Forces women’s
climbing team
November 23, 2022
Abu Dhabi: President His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin
Zayed Al Nahyan on Wednesday received the Women’s Climbing Team of the UAE
Armed Forces at Qasr Al Bahr.
Shaikh Mohammad welcomed the female mountaineer team,
and praised their efforts to excel at the sport, which involves many challenges
and difficulties.
The delegation expressed their thanks and appreciation
for the support that His Highness provided them with, and for the wise
leadership’s efforts to empower Emirati women in various fields and open new
doors for them, which enabled them to grow their capabilities and skills,
achieve their ambitions as well as log new achievements for the UAE.
The Women’s Climbing Team of the UAE Armed Forces
completed the challenge of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in
Africa, located in Tanzania, as well as Mount Toubkal, the highest peak in the
Kingdom of Morocco, as well as Nepal’s Mira Peak, where they hoisted the UAE
flag.
Source: Gulf News
https://gulfnews.com/uae/mohamed-bin-zayed-receives-uae-armed-forces-womens-climbing-team-1.92220479
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