2012. “Celebrating Female Muslim Athletes: The Out of Towners” Quoted extensively as an expert in Arwa Aburawa’s article on the media’s unhealthy focus on hijab-wearing athletes at Majalla Magazine, August 16. http://eng.majalla.com/2012/08/article55233592/celebrating-female-muslim-athletes " However as Sertaç Sehlikoglu who explores Muslim women’s role in sports at the University of Cambridge explains, the recent focus on female Muslim athletes wearing the hijab means that the achievements of non-hijab wearing Muslim athletes are often neglected. And yet, it is with these non-hijab wearing Muslim athletes that the legacy of Muslim women at the Olympics begins. “Historically, Muslim women without the hijab have been involved in international games for much longer than those who do wear some form of the hijab,” explains Sertaç Sehlikoglu. “Suat Aşeni and Halet Çambel were the first Muslim women at the Olympics and they represented Turkey at the 1936 Berlin O...
