Sheeba Aslam Fehmi is one of Islamic feminist writer & Journalist in India and one of the few Indian Muslim women scholars who writes on Islam.
Education
Sheeba Fehmi did her Master of Philosophy from the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her thesis was on "Human Rights And Multiculturalism: A Study of Legal Cases Involving Muslim Women".
Sheeba Fehmi is studying to be a Doctor of Philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her project is on absence of a visible Muslim women's movement in post 1947 India.
Career
She has edited a political monthly Headline Plus and has been the managing editor of a daily newspaper and a magazine. She has also written in major dailies and magazines. Sheeba has written on following on subjects.
She has a regular column titled Gender Jihad since February 09.
This column is published monthly in "Hans". A Hindi literary magazine.
I can find no verse in the Quran that is anti-women. Sheeba Fehmi was born in middle-class family in North India.
Her parents had keen interest in Indian politics.
Her father served in Ministry of Defense while her mother was a teacher by profession and a staunch communist. As a child, Sheeba was more inclined towards documentaries rather than regular entertainment. Sheeba Fehmi was greatly inspired by her mother’s life experiences.
She believed that her mother"s story was the similar to that of many women in male dominated societies in Middle East and South Asia.
This determined her future education.