Rashida Tlaib
As a life-long Detroiter, and one of the first Muslim-Americans, as well as the first Palestinian-American woman, ever elected to the United States Congress, Tlaib advocates for issues that affect the working-class.
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Sonita Alizadeh
At the age of 16, Sonita Alizadeh found out she was to be sold into marriage. Propelled to do something by this experience and the experiences of other women around her, the young Afghani woman turned to rap music. Alizadeh now uses her music and her convictions to end child marriage and to fight for the rights of women and girls all over the world.
Asieh Amini
Journalist and poet Asieh Amini is a leading voice in the campaign to end stoning and juvenile executions in Iran. Targeted by the state for her reporting and activism, she fled Iran in 2009, but continues to fight against censorship and other human rights abuses in the country.
Lila Zellet
Mexican writer, visual and performing artist, and researcher.
Abedo
When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Abedo was among the many who fought back.
Khawlah bint al-Azwar
Arabian heroine, who, in the famous battle of the Yermonks, between the Greeks and the Arabs, in the seventh century, rallied the Arabs, when they were driven back by the furious onset of their assailants, and, with several other of the chief women, took the command of the army.
Salima Hashmi
Renowned Pakistani artist, cultural writer, painter, and an influential art educator.
Hazrat Babajan
Pashtun Muslim saint, considered by her followers to be a Sadguru (”true guru”) or Qutub (in Sufism, the perfect human being, a spiritual leader who has a divine connection with God and passes knowledge on).
Aisha bint Abi Bakr
Wife of Muhammad
Moza bint Ahmad
Moza bint Ahmad was an important political figure during the reigns of her two nephews, Salim bin Sultan and Said bin Sultan in 1800s Oman