This week saw Saudi Arabian women taking to the road legally for the first time in decades. On Sunday, June 24, 2018, the long protested ban on female drivers was revoked. The end of the ban had been announced in September 2017, and many women had watched anxiously as the final days of the ban…

Charitable giving in America topped $400 billion for the first time in 2017. The Giving USA report stated that gifts from individuals, estates, foundations and corporations surged from $389.64 billion in 2016 to over $410 billion in 2017. This means that Americans donated more money to charity than some countries, such as Ireland, make in…

L’Oreal Paris UK has made history by featuring a woman wearing a hijab in a hair care advertisement. The ad promotes L’Oreal’s new Elvive campaign and features the beauty blogger Amena Khan, a British Muslim who wears her hijab in public and in the advertisement. Khan was excited to be a part of the advertisement,…

  What happens when a child of only 6 is discarded by his family and left to raise himself on the streets for 11 years in Kenya? One could only imagine this hair-raising prospect, but for Dr. Charles Mutua Mully this was a reality. “Through the suffering, the lack of food and the lack of…

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