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Iranian Woman Makes History as First Female Olympic Photographer

by faeze mohammadi July 30, 2024

For the first time in history, an Iranian woman has captured the Olympic spirit through her lens. Sara Abdollahi, a photographer for Borna News Agency, is making waves in Paris as she covers the 2024 Games.

The 2024 Paris Olympics have been marked by both excitement and controversy, including a power outage during the opening ceremony. Amidst this backdrop, Iran has achieved a significant milestone in its media coverage of the Games.

Sara Abdollahi, a skilled photographer from Borna News Agency, has become the first Iranian woman to cover the Olympics. Her presence in Paris represents a historic moment for Iranian sports journalism.

Abdollahi, with a strong background in photography and experience covering sports events in Iran, secured this opportunity through dedication and perseverance. Supported by Keyumars Hashemi and Mahmoud Khosravi, she has joined a group of Iranian journalists covering the Olympics.

While Iranian female photographers have previously participated in international sporting events, such as World Cups, Abdollahi’s achievement of being the first at the Olympics is a notable accomplishment.

From: Borna

July 30, 2024 0 comment

Asia Women Pioneers

Female Muslim scientist known as one of the most powerful women around the world©

by Narges Mohammadi January 10, 2023

Rana Dajani is a Jordanian-born molecular biology PHD geneticist. Additionally, she is recognized as a global entrepreneur.

Rana Dajani was born in Jordan to a Palestinian father from Jerusalem and a Syrian mother from Aleppo.

Jahanbanou reports, Dajani, who is considered one of the most influential researchers in the Islamic world was also ranked 12th among the 100 most influential Arab women in 2015.

Reflecting on her academic journey, this Jordanian molecular biologist; observes that the lack of representation of women in science is a “global phenomenon” in all Western and Eastern countries.

Dajani received her doctorate in 2004, and her degree in molecular biology from the University of Iowa, in the United States. She returned to her homeland in 2006 and worked as an assistant professor in Hashem city.

During her studies, she got married. After she gave birth to 3 beautiful children her husband a colonel in the Jordanian Air Force; asked her to apply for a Fulbright scholarship in 1999 to study for a doctorate at the University of lowa.

She immediately applied for a scholarship and entered the exams. On the day of the interview, she gave birth to her youngest daughter and was taking care of the children while she studied.

She says that her father encouraged her and her sisters to read more and gain more knowledge. Every evening they discussed with him what they had read that day.

We love to read

Dajani created an initiative called “We Love Reading” in which she read aloud to neighborhood children at her neighborhood mosque in Amman. This movement has spread to more than 60 countries around the world; and has trained more than 7,000 volunteers to become “reading ambassadors”.

The goal of this project is to teach children to read for pleasure and to make books and reading accessible to children in every community, including refugee camps. Dajani mentioned that “We Love Reading” had a particularly positive effect on refugees.

My Scientific Career

According to JahanBanou, Dajani has been an active leader of several scientific associations. She has served for three years as the President of the Jordanian National Chapter of Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD).

From 2019, adding to that, she is the president of the Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology in the Arab World (SASTA); a US-based non-profit network founded by Arab scientists abroad. Plus, she was the director of Hashemi University Study Center in 2010 and 2011.

In 2020 Dajani honored by UN Refugee Agency; was the winner of the Nansen Refugee Award for the Middle East and North Africa region. The award recognizes her philanthropic efforts through We Love Reading campaign.

January 10, 2023 2 comments

Europe Society

Another ban for Muslim women in France

by Narges Mohammadi June 26, 2022

Court in France states that the religious nature of the burkini and its implication for women’s rights make it unfit for public areas

France’s highest court ruled against “burkinis” at public swimming facilities on Tuesday, but did not crack down on public toplessness for women.

France’s Council of State, the highest administrative court in the country, ruled that allowing the burkini swimwear — a full-length, modest swimsuit worn by Muslim women — would violate the nation’s secular governance and laws against religious influence.

Not long after the ban was lifted, it was reinstated by Grenoble’s administrative tribunal. The Council of State’s decision on the issue has been anticipated for weeks. The burkini had previously been legalized by the city of Grenoble in May 2021, along with topless swimming, after outcry from residents.

The Council of State overturned lower court rulings that allowed the burkini, stating that the religious nature of the garment and the implications it has for women’s rights make it unfit for public pools.

France, the birthplace of the bikini, has for years struggled with its standards on women’s swimwear. In 2016, the swimsuits became controversial following an Islamic extremist attack on the city of Nice, France. Towns began banning the burkini, with police officers fining Muslim women found wearing them who refused to remove some of their clothes or leave the beach.

France is not alone in the growing conversation about swimwear and lack thereof. Nudity laws banning topless women at the beach have been challenged and sometimes overturned across the United States.

Sports illustrated swimsuit model halima aden talks wearing a hijab, “Burkini”: I’m so incredibly grateful.”

A Nantucket, Massachusetts proposal titled “Gender Equality on Beaches” allowing anyone to go topless on beaches was passed last month at the annual town meeting.

The amendment read: “In order to promote equality for all persons, any person shall be allowed to be topless on any public or private beach” in town.”

The by-law, proposed by seventh-generation Nantucket resident Dorothy Stover, was passed with a 327-242 vote by the Gender Equality on Beaches, according to WCVB. The next step is for the measure now to be approved by the state attorney general’s office.

We all talk about giving women the choice to choose for themselves on how they wish to dress; and then we have politicians in the cradle of freedom banning muslim women who are “WOMEN” from dressing the way they are pleased.

Women are allowed to come out topless; but if they wish to cover themselves , they are banned from that. How is this ideology acceptable ?!

June 26, 2022 0 comment

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