Congratulations to both Nabeela Ixtabalan and Aiza Abid for receiving Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards!

The Rotary Club of Richmond Hill is very happy to announce that the Winner of the 2022 Richmond Hill Women of Inspiration and Leadership Award, or WILA, is Fatima Sumar-Molu of City of Richmond Hill.

The Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW) is pleased to announce the launch today of a groundbreaking research report investigating the experiences and outcomes of diverse groups of Canadian Muslim women.

In 2020, Aida Sanjush spoke at TEDxBearCreekPark in Surrey, BC.

The community-based research project, Muslim Women’s Mental Health, asked Muslim women in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) to describe their first-hand experiences of mental health and mental health services.

Staying connected in the context of physical distancing is presenting challenges for many Muslims who long for the social interactions with their fellow Muslims that pre-COVID life had to offer.

In 2015, Alaa Murabit was a speaker at TEDWomen in Monterey, California.

Somali Canadian Nagad Moalin represented the riding of Fort McMurray-Cold Lake, Alberta at Equal Voice’s second Daughters of the Vote (DoV) gathering in early April 2019, which brought together 338 young women between the ages of 18 and 23, representing each Canadian riding and take their seat in the House of Commons during a historic sitting of the House of Commons. They were addressed by every federal party leader, and engaged with an array of Ministers, critics and advocates.

Syrian Canadian Lila Mansour represented the riding of Cariboo-Prince George, British Columbia at Equal Voice’s second Daughters of the Vote gathering in early April 2019, which brought together 338 young women between the ages of 18 and 23, representing each Canadian riding and take their seat in the House of Commons during a historic sitting of the House of Commons. They were addressed by every federal party leader, and engaged with an array of Ministers, critics and advocates.

On July 12, 2019 Mogadishu-based Radio Dalsan reported that Somali Canadian journalist Hodan Nalayeh, 43, founder of Integration TV, was killed along with her husband in an attack on a hotel in the port city of Kismayo, Somalia that has been claimed by terrorist group Al-Shabaab. She leaves behind two young sons.