Mulki Al-Sharmani

Mulki Al-Sharmani is an anthropologist and acted as coordinator of the Global Life Stories Project as part of the collaborative research work she has been doing since 2013 under a 5 year Academy of Finland research fellowship ‘Islamic Feminism: Tradition, Authority, and Hermeneutics’ at the Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Global life stories: capturing Muslim women's lived realities

The striking disconnect between the juristic and legal constructions of gender roles in Muslim legal tradition and the lived realities of many Muslim women is revealed in Musawah's Global Life Stories project.

By Mulki Al-Sharmani and Jana Rumminger

/ 6 Apr 2015

Egypt’s family courts: route to empowerment?

An Egyptian film of 1975 epitomises the experiences of women in the country's law-courts at that time: protracted, costly, painful, and with no expectation of justice at the

By Mulki Al-Sharmani

/ 7 Sep 2007