Poetry & Literature
Iqbal Tamimi returns to the Spotlight with a poem she wrote after meeting Mariane Pearl, the author of A Mighty Heart who lost her husband, journalist and reporter Daniel Pearl when he was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in... Read more
Opinion
By Iqbal Tamimi No one can argue the benefits of introducing distant learning and its positive effect, but what about its effect on the women of Saudi Arabia?
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Herstory
Report by Iqbal Tamimi Nabeela Masaad, a Yemeni woman who was married for three years to her husband Ahmad, had a lump in her sexual organs and experienced recurrent pains. One day her husband took her to hospital to be examined by Dr Ali... Read more
Opinion
officials, claim, tunisian, women, are, waging, a, sexual, jihad, in, syria,, but, whats, the, real, story?, By now you have probably already heard of the harem of Tunisian sex-warrior slaves heading to Syria in order to give up their... Read more
Opinion
The five women on the new Constituent Assembly are all considered very strong representatives, but activists say they are simply too few. Morsi loyalists meanwhile are in hiding and say all human rights in the country are compromised
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Herstory
On 15 June 2013 the District Court in Al-Khobar sentenced two human rights campaigners, journalists Wajeha Al-Huwaider and journalist Fawzia Al-Oyouni who campaign for women’s human rights, to ten months in... Read more
Art and Culture
There is nothing ordinary about the five musicians pumping out those familiar chords. They are Random Stars: the first Emirati all-girl rock band
Read morePakistan and Women Parliamentarians hold second dialogue on role of women parliamentarians in economic empowerment of women. The dialogue and other activities discussing gender equity at Parliament went on for three days
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Art and Culture
You don’t expect to attend the world premiere of a very important, culturally significant and fascinating anthropological film experiment in a medium-sized lecture hall in the city of Brighton, UK
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