Bosnian women with hijab

Zilka Spahić-Šiljak

Is born 1968. in Zenica,she has finished Gazi Husrev-Bey's madrasah in Sarajevo.She graduated from theology and law, holds a master’s degree in Human Rights and Democracy and did her doctorate thesis in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies.
She has published over 20 articles in Bosnian and English in the fields of women's rights, gender politics in religious traditions, education and cultural heritage. Soon her book will be published under the title "Women, Religion and Politics.”
She translates from English and her most notable books are “The Forgotten Female Rulers of the Muslim World" (Buybook, 2005) and “Islam and the Challenge of Democracy” (Buybook 2006).

Zilka Spahic-Siljak , who also holds a law degree from the University of Sarajevo, is a human rights and Islamic feminist scholar, researcher, and activist with more than ten years experience working on issues of culture, religion, women's rights, and feminism in both the governmental and non-governmental sectors.A scholar-activist in the areas of religion and human rights and Islamic feminism and gender, Dr. Spahić-Šiljak is offering two special topics courses, RELGST 1620: Women in Religion—Islam and RELGST 1800: Marriage and Sexual Ethics in Islam.

She is currently affiliated with the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies at the University of Sarajevo and is project coordinator for Researches in Gender and Education at the Transcultural and Psychosocial Foundation, where her team has published Gender Equality and Judicial Practice in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2007), Women, Religion, and Politics: The Impact of Religious Interpretations of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on the Status of Women in Public Life and Politics (2007), and An In-depth Study on Domestic Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2006). She joins the department for spring term 2009. Zilka Spahić-Šiljak has previously taught at the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies of the University of Sarajevo, which partners with Arizona State University and the University of Oslo and collaborates with Bielefeld University (Germany), Kent University (UK), and Vienna University (Austria).

She is married and has a one doughter.

She was also solist of Gazi Husrev-bey's choir when she was younger.

Here you can listen how she sings nesheeds:

http://http://www.dzemat-oberhausen.de/pages/downloads/ilahije-i-kaside.php

And you can see her also here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM3S44Frcdc

What do you think sisters??