Khadija bint Khuwaylid
As the first wife of Muhammad, Khadija bint Khuwaylid is honored by Muslims as one of the “Mothers of Believers” and is credited as the first convert to Islam following her husband’s first vision.
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Dr Shaheen Aziz
Pakistani chemical engineer
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Vociferous in the fight for equality, she remains a feminist role model and inspiration through the ages, planting the seeds for an end to traditionalism and the birth of female liberation in India and Bangladesh.
Ayesha Malik
Pakistani judge
Sara Akbar
Kuwaiti chemical petroleum engineer, and women’s rights campaigner who is considered a national hero for her role coordinating the firefighting to extinguish the 700 oilwell fires started by the Iraqi regime (1991).
Ikram Antaki
Syrian-Mexican essayist, fiction writer, and poet
Hana Assafiri
Hana Assafiri is a compassionate and unspoken hero within the Victorian community.
Bushra Rehman
Pakistani-American novelist
Maysoon Zayid
Palestinian-American comedian with cerebral palsy
A D Lauren-Abunassar
A.D. Lauren-Abunassar is a Palestinian-American poet, writer and journalist. Her first book, Coriolis, was winner of the 2023 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize.