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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Ibtihaj Muhammad
A world-class fencer, Ibtihaj Muhammad made history as the first American to wear a hijab in Olympic competition at the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro. An entrepreneur and advocate for Muslim and African American women in sports, Muhammad inspires others to defy the limits society places on them.
Zaida
1000s Moorish princess
Kassi
As the principal wife and paternal cousin of Mansa Suleyman, Kassi co-ruled the Kingdom of Mali jointly with her husband in the mid-1300s.
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.
Zeb-un-Nissa
Mughal princess and poet
Aisha
Spanish poet circa 1000 CE
Umm Zaynab Fatima
Egyptian social and religious leader
Salima Hashmi
Renowned Pakistani artist, cultural writer, painter, and an influential art educator.
Huda Sha’arawi
Pioneering Egyptian feminist leader and nationalist who founded the Egyptian Feminist Union in 1923, becoming a central figure in Egypt’s early feminist movement.