Journalist and poet Asieh Amini is a leading voice in the campaign to end stoning and juvenile executions in Iran. Targeted by the state for her reporting and activism, she fled Iran in 2009, but continues to fight against censorship and other human rights abuses in the country.
Mexican writer, visual and performing artist, and researcher.
When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Abedo was among the many who fought back.
Arabian heroine, who, in the famous battle of the Yermonks, between the Greeks and the Arabs, in the seventh century, rallied the Arabs, when they were driven back by the furious onset of their assailants, and, with several other of the chief women, took the command of the army.
Pashtun Muslim saint, considered by her followers to be a Sadguru (”true guru”) or Qutub (in Sufism, the perfect human being, a spiritual leader who has a divine connection with God and passes knowledge on).
Wife of Muhammad
Moza bint Ahmad was an important political figure during the reigns of her two nephews, Salim bin Sultan and Said bin Sultan in 1800s Oman
Jordanian television journalist and human rights advocate. She became the first female member of the Jordanian Parliament.
Fatima Jinnah was a prominent Pakistani politician and served as the Leader of the Opposition in Pakistan from 1960 until her passing in 1967.
Queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 600s BCE