Muslim schoolgirl in Australia who wants to
become the world’s first ballerina to wear a headscarf has been offered a
scholarship to attend a full-time ballet school. Stephanie Kurlow, 14,
from Sydney, spoke out last month about her plan to launch a
crowd-funding project to try to pay for her ballet tuition and become a
professional dancer.
6. Stephanie Kurlow – Australian performing ballet
5. Niloofar Rahmani – Afghan air force aviator
Niloofar Rahmani is the first female fixed-wing
Air Force aviator in Afghanistan’s history and the first female pilot in
the Afghan military since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Though her
family received death threats, she persevered to complete her training
and won the U.S. State Department’s International Women of Courage Award
in 2015.
4. Dian Pelangi – Indonesian fashion designer
Dian Pelangi adalah brand busana muslim yang
didirikan oleh seorang desainer muda berambisi tinggi bernama Dian Wahyu
Utami. Brand Dian Pelangi terkenal dengan warna-warni pelangi dan
penggunaan berbagai motif seperti tie dye, batik Pekalongan, dan tenun
Palembang. Motif tie-dye warna pelangi menjadi salah satu signature Dian
Pelangi.
3. Sonita Alizadeh – Afghan rapper
Sonita Alizadeh is an Afghan rapper and
activist who has been vocal against forced marriages. Alizadeh first
gained attention when she released “Brides for Sale,” a video in which
she raps about daughters being sold into marriage by their families. By
help of Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami.
2. Ibtihaj Muhammad – American fencer
Ibtihaj Muhammad is an American sabre fencer
and member of the United States fencing team. She is best known for
being the first Muslim woman to compete for the United States in
international competition in her sport.
1. Malala Yousafzai – Pakistani activist for female education
Malala Yousafzai S.St is a Pakistani activist
for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is
known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in
her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest
Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from
attending school. Yousafzai’s advocacy has since grown into an
international movement.