Afghanistan. Background ; Review of reforms ; Safia Amajan ; Shukria Barakzai ; Wazhma Frogh ; Massouda Jalal ; Malalai Joya ; Meena Keshwar Kamal and RAWA ; Manizha Naderi and WAW (Afghanistan/USA) ; Suraya Parlika ; Nilofar Sakhi ; Sima Samar and Shuhada -- Algeria. Background ; Khalida Messaoudi -- Bahrain. Background ; Wajeeha Al-Baharna ; Ghada Jamsheer -- Bangladesh. Background ; Taslima Nasreen -- Canada. Irshad Manji (Uganda/Canada) -- Egypt. Background ; Ekbar Baraka ; Nonie Darwish (Egypt/USA) ; Aida Seif El-Dawla ; Rabab El-Saadwi ; Suzanne Mubarak and SMWIPM ; Dalia Ziada -- France. Fadela Amara and Ni Putes Soumises (Algeria/France) ; Samira Bellil (Algeria/France) -- Indonesia. Background ; Rahima -- Iran. Background ; Review of reforms ; Weblogistan : the Iranian blogosphere ; Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh and Fereshteh Ghazi ; Hana Abdi and Ronak Safarzadeh ; Nasrin Afzai ; Delaram Ali ; Noushabeh Amiri ; Parvin Azima ; Parvin Darabi ; Shirin Ebadi ; Haleh Esfandiari (Iran/USA) ; Azam Kamguian (Iran/UK) ; Mehrangiz Kar (Iran/USA) ; Nahid Meshavarz and Mahboubeh Hosseinzadeh ; Azar Majedi (Iran/UK) ; Ziba Mir-Hosseini (Iran/UK) Azar Nafisi (Iran/USA) ; Maryam Namazie (Iran/UK) ; Lili Pourzand (Iran/Canada) ; Maryam Rahavi (Iran/France) ; Shadi Sadr ; Mahsa Shekarloo ; Shahla Sherkat and Zanan magazine ; Sussan Tahmasebi -- Iraq. Background ; Houzan Mahmoud (Kurdistan) ; Yanar Mohammed -- Israel and the Palestinian territories. Background ; Aswat ; Nissa WA Aafaq (Women and Horizons) -- Jordan. Background ; Rana Husseini -- Kuwait. Background ; Ibtibal Abd Al-Aziz Al-Khatib ; Nouriyah Al-Subeeh ; Rola Dashti --

Lebanon. Background ; Lina Abou-Habib

Malaysia. Background ; Marina Mahathir ; Zainah Anwar and Sisters in Islam

Morocco. Background ; Fatima Mernissi

Nigeria. Background ; Baobab

Pakistan. Background ; Asma Jahangir ; Mukhtaran Bibi (Mukhtar Mai) ; Raheel Raza (Pakistan/Canada)

Qatar. Background ; Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned

Saudi Arabia. Background ; Review of reforms ; Maha Akeel ; Rania Al-Baz ; Maha Al-Hujailan ; Wajeha Al-Huwaider ; Hasna Al-Qunair ; Thuraya Al-Shihiri ; Nadia Bakhurji ; Samar Fatany ; Lubna Hussain ; Halima Muzaffar

Somalia. Background ; Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Somalia/Holland/USA) ; Hawa Aden Mohamed

Sudan. Background ; Awatif Elageed ; Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim ; Taraji Mustafa (Sudan/Canada)

Syria. Background ; Georgette Atiya ; Wafa Sultan (Syria/USA) ; Syrian Women Observatory

Tunisia. Background ; Iqbal Al-Gharbi ; Munjiyah Al-Sawaihi ; Raja bin Salama ; Samia Labidi ; Fawzia Zouari

Turkey. Background ; Nebahat Akkoç and Ka-Mer ; KA-DER

United States of America. Mona Eltahawy ; Asra Nomani ; Amina Wadud

Yemen. Elham Mane'a

Male Muslim activists. Suliman Al-Salman (Saudi Arabia) ; Sleiman Al-Sleiman (Saudi Arabia) ; Bashir Goth (Somalia) ; Abul Kasem (Bangladesh/Australia) ; Lafif Lakhdar (Tunisia) ; Salman Masalha (Israel) ; Raid Qusti (Saudi Arabia)

Transnational organizations that support Muslim women's rights. Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) ; Assisting women's participation in the economy : Haifa Al Kaylani and AIWF ; Against honor killings : International Campaign Against Honor Killings (ICAHK) ; LAHA (For Her) ; Gay and Lesbian rights : Al Fatiha and the Safra Project

Appendix. Arab human development report : the plight of Arab women for equality.