Zin Min Htun, whose picture is shown, is a 32 year old make-up artist from Mandalay. She prefers to be called Ma Pwint, using the feminine prefix Ma.

Women in Thailand cannot be ordained buddhist monks. However, Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, 68, is determined to reverse this unfair tradition. In 2000, she left her life as professor in a renowned Thai university and traveled to Taiwan to receive the bodhisattva's precept. Three years later, she was ordained a full bhikkhuni, the word for female Buddhist monks, in Sri Lanka.

Professor Rula Quawas lectures at the University of Jordan on March 4, 2013.

Professor Rula Quawas lectures at the University of Jordan on March 4, 2013.

Professor Rula Quawas lectures at the University of Jordan on March 4, 2013.

Professor Rula Quawas lectures at the University of Jordan on March 4, 2013.

Professor Rula Quawas lectures at the University of Jordan on March 4, 2013.

Professor Rula Quawas speaks in one of her lectures on March 4, 2013

Professor Rula Quawas speaks in a February 26 interview about being removed from her deanship at the University of Jordan.

Professor Rula Quawas speaks at an interview on Feb. 26, 2013

Professor Rula Quawas speaks at an interview on Feb. 26, 2013