Fix typo
m (1 revision imported) |
>ShifaAayat (Fix typo) |
||
| (One intermediate revision by one other user not shown) | |||
| Line 53: | Line 53: | ||
==Career== | ==Career== | ||
Fehmi has edited a political monthly ''Headline Plus'' and has been the [[managing editor]] of a daily newspaper and a magazine. She has also written in major dailies and magazines.<ref name="CounterCurrents" /> She has a regular column titled ''Gender Jihad'' since February 2009. This column is published monthly in "[[The Hans India|Hans]]"; a Hindi literary magazine.<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1" /> | |||
==Belief== | ==Belief== | ||
| Line 59: | Line 59: | ||
==Early life== | ==Early life== | ||
Sheeba Aslam Fehmi was born in a middle-class family in [[North India]]. Her parents had keen interest in [[Indian politics]]. Her father served in [[Ministry of Defence (India)|Ministry of Defense]] while her mother was a [[teacher]] by profession and both her parents were staunch [[communist]]s. As a child, Sheeba was more inclined towards documentaries rather than regular entertainment. At a young age, she used to watch documentaries about people like [[Ho Chi Minh]], [[Fidel Castro]], [[Che Guevara]] and [[Vietnam War]].<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1"/><ref name=CounterCurrents/> | Sheeba Aslam Fehmi was born in a middle-class family in the city of [[Kanpur]] in [[North India]]. Her parents had keen interest in [[Indian politics]]. Her father served in [[Ministry of Defence (India)|Ministry of Defense]] while her mother was a [[teacher]] by profession and both her parents were staunch [[communist]]s as Kanpur was once an strong centre of communist activities, also the place where [[Communist Party of India]] came into existence. As a child, Sheeba was more inclined towards documentaries rather than regular entertainment. At a young age, she used to watch documentaries about people like [[Ho Chi Minh]], [[Fidel Castro]], [[Che Guevara]] and [[Vietnam War]].<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1"/><ref name=CounterCurrents/> | ||
Her parents' divorce and her "lack of knowledge about rights that Muslim women have in Islam" aspired her to be an activist. She now feels that the divorce between her parents could have been prevented, if her mother and father both had fully-known her rights as a woman under Islamic law – her rights to have her own career, to earn a living for herself.<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1"/><ref name=CounterCurrents/> | Her parents' divorce and her "lack of knowledge about rights that Muslim women have in Islam" aspired her to be an activist. She now feels that the divorce between her parents could have been prevented, if her mother and father both had fully-known her rights as a woman under Islamic law – her rights to have her own career, to earn a living for herself.<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1"/><ref name=CounterCurrents/> | ||