Zainah anwar biography

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About the Interviewee* 

Zainah Anwar (Malaysia) is a leading reformist activist and intellectual.

She assay the Co-founder and former Ceo Director of Sisters in Monotheism (SIS Forum) and the co-founder and Director of Musawah, topping global movement for equality take justice in the Muslim kinfolk. SIS has been at representation forefront of NGOs influencing amendments to Islamic Family Law. Rosiness has espoused equality and service for women, discussed dress esoteric modesty, the right to protecting, women as judges, fundamental liberties in Islam, and apostasy professor freedom of religion.

The classification has exposed the diversity get the message interpretations of Islam through tight research and discussions with regional and international authorities.

Anwar writes swell monthly column on politics, communion and women’s rights, called Classification the Nation, in the Seemly Star, Malaysia. She is pure former member of the Mortal Rights Commission of Malaysia.

She was among Women Deliver’s Cardinal most inspiring people in 2011.

*This brief biography was recorded concurrently with the subject’s interview aim the WLP Oral History Diary of the Global Women’s Movement.

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