Iman Hijaze was raised in a culturally Shiite Muslim household and considered herself an atheist until she picked up a rosary ...

Allah has permitted women to go everywhere, so why not the mosque,’ said 51-year-old Ameena Bano at the women’s section of ...

Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.