On February 2009 for the first time, the judges in the Middle East will be represented by two female Palestinians. Hebron and Ramallah, towns in the West Bank, will be the places in which these two judges will try to make differences in the way Muslim women are treated by the courts.
Across the Arab world, it is only in Sudan where women have also een judges in Islamic courts and also Lebanon, Jordan and Syria are slowly progressing in the men-only court rules.
One of the female judges is Asmahan Liwheidi who never thought she would ever become a judge because in their society women couldn't take a charge like that since men where only considered. But, Sheikh Tayseer al Tamimi, the Chief of Justice of the Palestinian state made it possible for women to participate by daring the belief that women weren't able to be Shaeia judges and granted Asmahan Liwheidi in Hebron and Khulud Mohammed Faqih in Ramallah to take the judges' exam.
Good thing was that mostly every Muslim man supported this choice.
It was said that "If you keep a woman under covers she will isolate herself and give nothing to society but if you give her the freedom and equality our religion offer, she can contribute a lot."
These new judges are hoping to change the way things are in the Islamic tradition for good.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/31/2729531.htm
