Zainah Anwar

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Zainah Anwar
Zainah Anwar at the AWID Forum 2016
Born	[when?] Johor, Malaysia
Nationality	Malaysian
Head of Sisters in Islam
Incumbent
Assumed office 1988
Preceded by	Organization formed

Zainah Anwar is a prominent Malaysian non-governmental organisation leader, activist and Muslim feminist.^[1] She was the head of the civil society organisation Sisters in Islam for more than two decades before stepping down. In 2013 she was named by the International Museum of Women as one of its 10 most influential Muslim women.^[2]