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Womens Rights Middle East

My Experiences as a Yogic Nun

Marsha Low | Posted 08.24.2012 | Canada Living
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Marsha Low

In The Orange Robe: My Eighteen Years as a Yogic Nun, Marsha Low shares her experience with the controversial Indian spiritual group Ananda Marga. In this excerpt, Low describes her time in Cairo, where she witnessed a lack of basic freedoms available to women -- the same freedoms Egyptian women now fear they may lose in the aftermath of the revolution.

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Can Sports Raise Middle-Eastern Women's Self-Esteem?

Silken Laumann | Posted 03.25.2012 | Canada
Read More: Women Rowing, Rowing Women, Women's Rights Middle East, Self-Esteem Sports, Sports Self-Esteem, Saudi Arabia Sports, Middle East Women's Rights, Sports Saudi Arabia, Women Driving Saudi Arabia, Canada News
Silken Laumann

In Pakistan, "Right To Play" runs programs in Peshawar and Quetta that have over 20,000 girls regularly playing sport and learning through the power of play. Women and girls who play sport build self-esteem, the very thing that will have them stand up for their rights, not accept abuse, and push for more freedom.

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