Ep. 50: International Women’s Day: Breaking sports boundaries with Manal Rostom
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English - March 09, 2020 09:30 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Mental Health science diabetes diet emilykumler female feminism health journalism medicine women Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Manal Rostom has never let her hijab stop her from excelling at her sport. In 2015, the Dubai-based athlete broke barriers as the first hijabi woman in a Nike campaign, modeling their new sports hijab. Later, she became the first Egyptian woman to run Great Wall of China Marathon marathon—the pharmacist-turned-runner is on track to run all six of the major marathons. Rostom runs Surviving Hijab, a female-only Facebook community, as a space for other veiled women to find support, advice and inspiration.