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Billie Jean King: The First Female Athlete-Activist

By Caitlin Thompson — 2021

Billie Jean King isn’t interested in being a legend—she’s interested in succession.

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Challenging Religious & Patriarchal Structures | Sherin Khankan | TEDxLausanneWomen

Sherin speaks as she's a female Imam and shares the stories left untold about psychological violence and religious control, and how to break the circle of shame, loneliness and abuse.

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Exclusive Interview with Sherin Khankan on Denmark’s First Female Run Mosque

Medyascope.tv produces this interview with Sherin Khankan.

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Sherin Khankan - How Can We Talk About Islam?

For today's guest on ”How can we?” we have Denmark's, probably Scandinavia's, first female imam, Sherin Khankan. Navid and Sherin talks about feminism, equal rights and the 9 theses of Muslim reform.

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Female Imams in Copenhagen | DW English

Sherin Khankan is the daughter of a Christian and a Muslim. In 2016 she founded a mosque in central Copenhagen. She wants to challenge the view of Islam as a religion that hates non-believers and combat Islamophobia.

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Realising Gender Equality in Islamic Marriages | Sherin Khankan | TEDxMünster

As the first female Imam in Denmark Sherin Kankan knows what it’s like to fight against and overcome prejudice. Women must be given the means to realize their fundamental right to equality.

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Rayfest20 with Karen Georgia Thompson & Sherin Khankan

Rev. Dr Karen Georgia A. Thompson and Sherin Khankan reflect on what the Feminine means to them, how to cultivate authenticity, and the challenges they navigate as female faith leaders.

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Inside Scandinavia's First Women-Only Mosque

The Danish capital Copenhagen is home to Scandinavia's first mosque run entirely by and for women. The Mariam mosque is headed by the feminist Sherin Khankan. Only women can be imams and take part in the Friday prayers.

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Sherin Khankan: Can Islam Be a Feminist Religion?

Sherin Khankan is Denmark's first female imam and founder of the first mosque for women in Europe.

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Women Are the Future of Islam

In this revelatory book, imam Sherin Khankan addresses urgent contemporary issues such as modern women in Islam, radical Islamic groups, Islamic divorce, and fundamentalism, and she describes her own personal journey as a female Muslim activist.

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