Women seek diverse paths to leadership in Islamic spaces
By MARIAM FAM and AYSHA KHAN CAIRO (AP) — Shortly after Kholoud al-Faqeeh was appointed judge in an Islamic religious court in the Palestinian territories, a woman walked in, laid eyes on her and turned around and walked out, murmuring that she didn’t want a woman to rule in her case. Al-Faqeeh was saddened, but not surprised — people have long been accustomed to seeing turbaned men in her place. It