The 2017 Justice For Women Lecture was delivered by Zainah Anwar, who is the founding member of Sisters in Islam and Director of Musawah. Ms. Anwar discussed What Islam, Whose Islam? The Struggle for Women’s Right to Equality and Justice in Muslim Contexts on March 23, 2017 in the Abromson Community Education Center.
Ms. Anwar of Malaysia is at the forefront of the women’s movement working towards an end of the use of Islam to justify discrimination against women. Sisters in Islam has successfully created a public voice through which women can demand equality and justice. Musawah has brought together scholars and activists from over 50 countries to produce new feminist scholarship in Islam, to train activists on women’s rights in Islam, and to challenge the evasion of human rights standards.
