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Zakia Soman is co-founder and co-director of the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA: The Indian Muslim Women’s Movement), a high-profile organisation that campaigns to improve the social and legal rights of Muslim women in India. The organisation co-filed the court case that led to the Supreme Court ban on triple-talaq (instant divorce) in 2017, and is engaged in a number of other campaigns for further reforms to Muslim family laws.
Ziba Mir-Hosseini is a globally renowned academic and legal activist. She is one of the co-founders and leaders of Musawah, a global Islamic feminist movement working for equality and justice within Muslim families, that links together NGOs, activists and scholars from around the world. She is a Professorial Associate at SOAS and has published many books on subjects of gender equality, family law and women’s rights in Islam.
