During my time as Co-Director of Musawah, I was interviewed by Middle East Eye, on the spate of murders of women in broad daylight in the Middle East that happened within days and weeks of each other

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of women and girls is increasingly talked about and yet not fully understood. Research has demonstrated that during major health pandemics such as COVID-19, men’s violence towards women and girls (VAWG) becomes more severe as men’s perpetration escalates and women’s insecurities and their vulnerabilities increase.

In this Musawah webinar I explore how Dr. Nevin Reda’s new, Islamic feminist methodology (manhaj niswī rawḥānī) that connects jurisprudence to ethics can be applied to counteract misogynistic application of jurisprudence. Her approach argues for a new conceptualisation of marriage as a civil, legally binding contract of equal partnership that manifests the ethical imperatives of the Qur’an (e.g.ʿadl, iḥsān) and allows for the pursuit of legal rights as described in the Qur’an (e.g. divorce, alimony).

What has working to end violence against women and girls for the last ten years taught me.

I firmly believe in intersectional feminist leadership. I think there are many examples of it in the women's movement and in particular at a grassroots level. However, I feel that it’s time, the leadership in our sector was more reflective of the women who work and dedicate their lives and labour to saving the lives of women.

Since Shamima Begum, the former Bethnal Green schoolgirl was found and interviewed two weeks ago in a camp in Syria, I have been observing the lack of compassion in the debate that has ensued since she expressed her wish to return home and her regret for what she had done. What it confirms to me is that misogynistic white supremacy targets the most vulnerable and most people won't call it out.

On 27 November 2018, I co-organised and curated a conference discussing a relatively unexplored area of work in London's non-BME women's sector, that of working with faith and religious communities to respond appropriately to domestic abuse and other forms of violence against women and girls.

My interview with Mashable-UK on why we chose the theme of Bread and Roses as co-organisers of the Women's March London

Yesterday I was asked by a security guard outside a particular faith school to produce documentation to verify that I was here to collect my two boys from football club. I am a visible Muslim woman and the school I was attempting to pick my kids up from wasn’t a Muslim faith school. It turns out that I was the only parent who was asked to produce documentation. All the others were let through. Yes, this is racism, and it’s enabled in the UK by comments from politicians like Boris Johnson who say that I look like a “bank robber”.

Huda Jawad speaks as part of the Ramadan TED-style series of talks at Mahfil Ali

Huda has held various positions in local government, national and international NGOs, and charities tackling a wide range of issues relating to social exclusion, justice, equality, and conflict resolution.

I left home this morning for the Tube, my apprehension at being singled out for being a Muslim woman was tempered by the messages I received from my non-Muslim friends checking that I was ok

Like other parents of children from different ethnic and racial backgrounds, I worry every day about how I can bring up confident, polite and kind children, proud of everything that makes them unique including their faith. But perhaps unlike them I ask myself how can I achieve this in a world that sees my sons as potential terrorists of tomorrow?

Choosing to conflate a cultural and religiously inspired mode of attire – which women choose to wear to feel safe from the sexual gaze of society while partaking in a very ordinary pastime – with a terrorist group is a convenient ‘othering’ of fellow citizens in times of national crisis

Whilst I have always dealt and worked passionately within the context of equalities, human rights, and faith, looking back it feels like all the different strands of a career spanning 20 years all crystalised and brought me to a specific place in life..looking back it feels like as if I was destined to discover and to be utterly fascinated and inspired by Feminism and more specifically Islamic Feminism.

Huda Jawad who is a descendent of Ayatollah Naini, a prominent religious leader at Najaf seminary and the supporter of Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1905 says after years of thinking and debating she has now come to an Islam that is true to the original text and has reached the God directly, bypassing conduit. How has she achieved this?

Listen to my BBC Radio 4 Four Thought lecture where I discuss the development of my feminism amongst other things!

Why on earth would any girl abandon the liberties of modern democracy to join the dark ages of IS? Huda Jawad attempts to offer an answer.

I was born in Baghdad and left Iraq at the age of two. I grew up in the United Arab Emirates and Syria before coming to settle as a teenager in London in the late eighties. My parents were political activists during the time of Saddam Hussein and fled Iraq after the death sentence was imposed on them in absentia. We traveled throughout the Middle East and seemed that we were constantly on the move.

On June 2 2014 Solace Women’s Aid in association with the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit (CWASU) at London Metropolitan University, launched its groundbreaking research report that looked at how women and children rebuild their lives after leaving an abuse relationship. The research was a longitudinal study tracking one hundred women who had accessed one or more of Solace Women’s Aid’s services over a three year period.