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Three north African women–Latifa Jbabdi, Nadia Yassine and Soad Saleh–are playing an active part in the lively regional debate over women’s role in Islam. Third in a series about emerging female leaders in Africa.
The Muslim world is holding a spirited debate about the role of women as interpreted through religious doctrine. Some passages in the Koran inspire more debate than others.
Women’s struggle to change Egypt’s divorce law shows how women’s rights advocates here are relying increasingly on Islam to advance their arguments for gender equality.
A U.S.-funded reproductive health program in Egypt upgrades rural care and helps women understand contraception. Aimed at curbing population growth, it is the last program of its kind and threatened by U.S. foreign aid policy.