Events and Activities
بقلم إقبال التميمي من المؤكد أن تقدم الدول وتحضّرها يقاس بمقدار الحريات والمساواة والعدل التي يتمتع بها المجتمع بشكل عام. وأحد معايير هذا التقدم يتضح بمقدار احترام المرأة التي تشكل نسبة النصف من المجتمع، وذلك بالاعتراف بكفاءاتها وتقدير عطاءها... Read more
Art and Culture
Sharjah, UAE, 22th May 2016 Jawaher AlQasimi, The Director of Sharjah International Children’s Festival (SICFF) and the FUNN (Sharjah Media Art for Youth & Children), announced during the 69th Cannes Film Festival that SICFF... Read more
Art and Culture
Over seventy young musicians from Palestine will join students from the United Kingdom and Nai Barghouti, a rising star of Arabic music, for a week of intensive rehearsals at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Together they will perform a... Read more
Herstory
Educational Material
Two chapters of the moving ‘Girl Rising‘ film were shown during an event held at Capital Club in Dubai. Following the film, Nicola Hewitt, the Middle East Advisor for Girl Rising (GR), addressed the guests on the influential GR... Read more
Opinion
News
The Arab Women Media Watch Centre offer tributes and mourns the loss of dedicated colleague, Pearl Thevanayagam. Pearl was the director of the Exiled Journalists’ Network in the UK, and worked for the Sunday Leader and Daily News in Sri Lanka... Read more
Discrimination
One of the commercial centres in Tunisia, has used a woman on a platform used for selling fish as a form of advertising to attract buyers. This action lead to an uproar by Arab women who described this promotional stunt as ‘a cheap marketing... Read more
News
Tunisian researcher Amal Qaramy was invited to lecture in Egypt about terrorism by Alexandria Library. But as she arrived at Cairo airport, her mobile phone and laptop were confiscated and she was denied access to Egypt and returned to her... Read more