News
Tweet {jcomments on Two failed Arab asylum seekers are on the run after escaping from a detention centre near Lincoln. Algerian-born Fehrez Belkadi, 33, and Egyptian citizen Waiel Elbayoumi, 30, escaped from the Morton Hall Immigration Removal... Read more
Caricature
Tweet {jcomments on} Segregation in shopping areas of Saudi Arabia, is it a fair policy? by Iqbal Tamimi The segregation in almost every field in the Saudi society, and the problems people face as a consequence, have been expressed through... Read more
News
Tweet {jcomments on} By Iqbal Tamimi The first ever authorized woman to perform marriage ceremonies in Egypt is threatening to sue the actress Hanan Turk during the holy month of Ramadan, because of the role she has performed in a drama... Read more
Opinion
Tweet {jcomments on} Benny Morris gave numerous press interviews after his lecture at the London School of Economics in June 2011. Typical of these was his interview with The National Interest Magazine in which he claimed that he was... Read more
Herstory
Tweet {jcomments on} Libyans have lived under a dictatorship for over 40 years and the effort to think and act freely doesn’t come easily. In Benghazi, a small women-led group called Express is waging a psycho-social effort to... Read more
Caricature
By Iqbal Tamimi One of the amazing fields where Muslim women have shown extra special skills in self expression is working as cartoonists. The skills of two Muslim women working in the same field but separated by a wide geographical and... Read more
Herstory
{jcomments on}Tweet Bahrain’s revolution is muffled by a combination of Saudi influence and U.S. reticence. Several young women–from both inside and outside the troubled kingdom–are overcoming the forces of silence
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Caricature
Tweet {jcomments on} How can women get what they want? This is the title of this caricature by Saudi cartoonist Rabeea, who believes that women can only achieve what they want from their husbands by nagging
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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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