Heather McRobie is a novelist, journalist, and former co-editor of openDemocracy 50.50. She has written for Al Jazeera, the Guardian, the New Statesman, and Foreign Policy, amongst others. She researches and lectures on public policy at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and previously studied at the University of Oxford, University of Bologna and University of Sarajevo. Her latest book Literary Freedom: a Cultural Right to Literature explores the issue of hate speech in literature and the philosophy of freedom of expression. Follow her on twitter @heathermcrobie
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Published in: 50.50I shall leave as my city turns to dust: Queens of Syria and women in warIn ‘Queens of Syria’, ancient Greek tales of loss and dislocation in conflict echo through to the contemporary...
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Published in: ourBeebCaught in a Brexit bromanceThe referendum on British membership of the EU has important implications for gender equality, but despite attempts...
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Published in: 50.50Bikinis and babas: the gender subtext of clichés about UkraineIn a conflict situation, humiliation of the enemy is frequently gendered. Yet the quasi-Orientalist tropes through...
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Published in: 50.50Laurie Penny on Unspeakable ThingsLaurie Penny’s latest book ‘Unspeakable Things’ touches upon the unspeakable: “how sex and money and power police...
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Published in: 50.50Military trials in Egypt: 2011-2014
More civilians have been tried in military courts in the three years since the revolution than during the whole of...
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Published in: 50.50"It takes broken bones": authoritarianism and violence against women in HungaryRight-wing discourse in Hungarian politics is matched by the government’s regressive handling of gender issues, as...