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Heba Salah announces the launch of Women’s Voice for Peace website

Heba Salah

Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021

Heba Salah, owner and founder of Women’s Voice for Peace, announced in a video the launch of the initiative’s website.

Heba called on researchers and others from academic to share their works and contributions that serve the goals and visons of the initiative.

Women’s Voice for Peace is a personal initiative launched in September 2019 under the auspices of King Abdullah ibn Abdul-Aziz Center for interreligious and intercultural dialogue (KAIICID). It aims to braking the stereotypes in Arab societies that wrong women in the name of religion.

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