Samira Ahmed
Samira Ahmed is the author of “Love, Hate & Other Filters,” “Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know” and “Internment.”
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Zuleikha Mayat
South African author and activist who led a life of courage, compassion and integrity
Norasiah Hasan
Member of the Islamic Women’s Welfare Council of Victoria, founder of the ‘Muslimah Women’s Group’, of the Western Region Muslim Community in Wyndham and a member of the Victorian Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Coalition.
Anam Javed
Anam is one of 16 Master Teachers appointed by the Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership, where she works with Technologies teachers from across all sectors in Victoria, within the Teaching Excellence Program.
Saima Bhutta
Saima Bhutta has been a social justice advocate in South Jersey for over 25 years. When Bhutta saw the rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric following the 9/11 attacks, she was inspired to become further involved in her own community.
Israa Merhi
Lebanese-Australian poet
May Arif Kaftan-Kassim
May Arif Kaftan (January 14, 1928–July 23, 2020), also known by the surname Kaftan-Kassim, worked at the Harvard College Observatory from 1953 to approximately 1962. Her work was focused on radio astronomy.
Ella Little-Collins
She joined the Nation of Islam in the mid-1950s where she helped to establish a mosque with a daycare center attached to it. In the early 1940s, she became the guardian of her half-brother Malcolm Little, who later changed his name to Malcolm X
Isabelle Eberhardt
Swiss explorer who lived and travelled extensively throughout North Africa.
Dr Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
US civil rights activist Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and one of three women chosen to be a field director for the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.