Events and Activities
Tweet {jcomments on} A study is being conducted by Staff Staffordshire University (UK), Keele University (UK) and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (University of Bielefeld, Germany) in cooperation with... Read more
Herstory
Coptic Christians in Egypt have almost no divorce rights, even in cases of domestic violence. In keeping with the country’s revolutionary mood, a women’s advocacy group aims to change that.
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Herstory
Tweet {jcomments on} By Iqbal Tamimi WeNews commentator LONDON (WOMENSENEWS)–Asmahan Al-Ghamdi, a female editor at the national Saudi newspaper, Al-Riyadh, based in Al-Riyadh city, was in an amusement park north of Riyadh working on... Read more
Poetry & Literature
Tweet {jcomments on} In The Thing about Feathers, Arab-American poet and playwright Nathalie Handal invokes the powerful emotions of those who flee their homelands. An excerpt from her upcoming book “Poet in Andalucia.”
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Caricature
News
Tweet {jcomments on} Two Saudi women have been released following a tweeting campaign. Rima bint Abdul Rahman al-Jareesh and Sharifa al-Saqa’abi, were detained by the Saudi authorities following a protest they participated in, demanding a... Read more
Caricature
Tweet {jcomments on} A caricature by the Palestinian artist Omayya Joha, dedicated to the female prisoner Ahlam Tamimi and all Palestinian women imprisoned by Israel. Joha herself is a Palestinian woman who suffered from the atrocities of... Read more
{jcomments on}Tweet Ten people were injured, most of whom were journalists, on Friday, during protests demanding reform in Jordan
Read moreTweet {jcomments on} Edgware Road Project artist-in-residence Rania Stephan presents the UK premiere of her film The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (2011), which recently won the Sharjah Biennial Prize 2011
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