‘Woman, life, freedom’: the Syrian feminists who forged a new world in a land of war
In a society riven by conflict and misogyny, the autonomous region of Rojava has a government with perhaps the most complete gender equality in the world Natasha Walter in Rojava Sun 9 Feb 2025 19.00 AEDTShare ‘Being a woman,” says the…
A chronicle of courage: the programme keeping Afghan women’s words alive
This article was origionally published on positive.news by Martin Wright on January 29, 2025. It’s August 2021. Imagine being a woman in Kabul – a woman who loves words, who loves to write. Who keeps in touch with fellow women…
Iraqi Parliament opens door to paedophilia with law permitting child marriage
This article was origionally published by Medyanews on the 24/1/2025 written by Necîbe Qeredaxî. The Iraqi parliament’s amendment to the “Personal Status” Law, allowing child marriage for girls as young as nine, passed in the country’s parliament on Tuesday 21…
Five things you need to know about women in Islam: Implications for advancing women’s rights in the Middle East
This article was first published via Arab Center Washington DC, by Tamara Kharroub. The issue of women’s rights in Islam has been a contentious area of discussions and intense debates both in the Muslim world and in the West. The…
How Not to Study Gender in the Middle East
This article was origionally published via Jadaliyya by Maya Mikdashi, March 21, 2012. One: Gender is not the study of what is evident, it is an analysis of how what is evident came to be. Two: Before resolving to write…
Women and Nature: Towards an Ecosocialist Feminism
This article was origionally published via RUPTURE, by Jess Spear on 10th of March, 2021. It was hot outside that day. In the remote area of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa a young man watched as five men approached him on…
Seven female icons who helped define the Arab world
This article was originally published on Middle East Eye by Nada Osman, on 13 December 2021. The role of women in Arab societies has long been a subject of debate and fascination both within the region and outside of it. On…
The Status of Women’s Rights in the Middle East
This article was origionally published on STIMSON, by By Maryam Rezaei Zadeh, on January 16, 2024. In a region often perceived through a lens of uniformity, particularly in its treatment of women, the Middle East presents a tapestry of contrasts…
The Most Lavish Mesopotamian Tomb Ever Found Belongs to a Woman
This article was origionally published on Atlas Obsecura by Sarah Durn, on February 10, 2022. In the late 1920s, deep in the southern Iraqi desert, British archaeologist Leonard Woolley uncovered the most lavish Mesopotamian tomb ever discovered. The 4,500-year-old skeleton was…
Why women in ecology are crucial to the climate movement
This article was origionally published via The Daily Orange, by Izzy Kaufman. In 1859, physicist John Tyndall was praised for his discoveries of the greenhouse gas effect, setting a foundation for our modern understanding of climate change. Like any respectable scientist,…