Main content
This programme is not currently available on 主播大秀 iPlayer

Islam, Women and Me

Documentary following 28-year-old British Muslim Mehreen Baig as she explores the experiences of women in different Muslim communities.

As a 28-year-old British Muslim woman, Mehreen Baig finds that everyone seems to have an opinion about how she should live her life - the clothes she should wear, where she should go out and who she should date. Half the time she is told she's being held back by her religion, and the other half that she isn't religious enough. Sometimes it feels like she just can't win. As she faces the prospect of marriage and finally moving out from her parents' house, she wants to know whether it's possible to be a strong, independent woman and a good Muslim in modern Britain.

Mehreen encounters the women on the front line of this debate. She meets the young women who claim Islam is a feminist religion that empowers them and a woman who has rejected the religion because she believes it's inherently sexist. She uses a specialist Muslim dating app to date a selection of young Muslim men, finding out what they really want from a wife, and attends a Sharia council to witness women petitioning to divorce their husbands.

Along the way, Mehreen discovers what the Islamic texts really say about women's rights and discovers how widely women's experiences vary across different Muslim communities.

37 minutes

Last on

Thu 21 May 2020 01:20
主播大秀 One Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD only

Clips

See all clips from Islam, Women and Me (2)

Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:26

    Clean Bandit

    Rockabye

  • 00:32

    They Might Be Giants

    Man, It's So Loud In Here

Credits

Presenter Mehreen Baig
Director Farah Qayum
Executive Producer Joe Evans
Executive Producer Neil Crombie
Production Company Swan Films

Broadcasts