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The signing ceremony for the Dar Al Hijra masterplan design contract was held under the patronage of Prince Salman bin Sultan ...
Islamic New Year 1447 could potentially fall on a Friday late June, giving UAE residents a three-day break but exact dates hinge on the moon sighting ...
The so-called "third sex" or gender in South Asia, known as hijra, is an institutionalised subculture of male-bodied, feminine-identified individuals who want to be "macho" males and who offer ...
On November 9, the second Hijra Festival took place in Karachi. Organised by Kami Sid, Pakistan’s first transgender model, the event was held at Frere Hall. Sid’s mission with the festival was ...
Calling a husband a 'hijra' is an act of cruelty, the Punjab and Haryana High Court recently observed while hearing a divorce case. The man said the woman used to say that sex should go on for at ...
One of the country’s largest meeting of hijras was held at the Dadar’s Shjvaji Mandir on September 20th by the city’s Hijra NGO, Kinnar Ma Trust. Over a 1,500 hijras packed the auditorium ...
Saudi Arabian director Shahad Ameen, whose feminist fable “Scales” made a splash after launching from Venice in 2019, is back behind the camera on “Hijra,” an ambitious drama centered on ...
The film features a transgender woman character, as well as India’s diverse third-gender, or “hijra,” community. On his journey to get revenge on the corrupt guru and police chief who killed ...
All the while he's cheered on by an audience of Hijra, India's transgender – or 'third gender' – community. Monkey Man highlights the juxtaposing lives of Yatana's (a proxy for Mumbai ...