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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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