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Nobel Peace Prize winner and Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee, left, holds hands with fellow prize winner Tawakkol Karman of Yemen during the 2011 Nobel Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway. Photo: John McConnico   For women in religion 2011 was a year of firsts, challenges, and accomplishments. As three religious women won highest accolades with […]

Tawakkol Karman is an amazing woman. She is a revolutionary, a protest leader, a human rights activist, a journalist, a politician, a mother and now a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The Nobel Peace Prize finally has an Arab female winner. In a year of protest and change across the Arab world, it was only right […]