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Published in: 50.50Sudan secession: resolving divisions?South Sudan celebrates its independence this week, becoming the world's newest nation. But the festering divisions...
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Published in: 50.50Sudanese women demand justice
The systematic use of sexual violence along with torture, cruel and degrading treatment – such as the common use of...
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Published in: 50.50Jewish. Orthodox. Feminist. Israeli.
Orthodox Jewish feminists may seem to outsiders to be a contradiction in terms. But as Cassandra Balchin discovers...
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Published in: HomeModerate secularism: a European conception
The question of religion’s place in modern secular societies is intellectually contested and politically divisive....
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Published in: 50.50Two million dollars: a patriarchal bargain
The murder of two men by a CIA agent in Pakistan raised issues of masculinist national sovereignty and honour, and...
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Published in: HomeStates, religious diversity, and the crisis of secularism
In India, the existence of deep religious diversity has ensured a conceptual response not only to problems within...
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Published in: 50.50Shirin Ebadi: who defines Islam?
"Egyptian women are lucky in one way. They have witnessed the predicament of Iranian women and seen how the Islamic...
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Published in: 50.50Promise and peril: women and the ‘Arab spring’
Women were visible and effective in the popular revolts in Tunisia and Egypt. Will this moment of opening yield...
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Published in: HomePostmodern Islam and the Arab revolts
The emancipatory movements in the Arab world represent an inner shift in the self-understanding of Islam - one that...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: from equality of purpose to equality on the ground
"We acted together and we all adhere to the same values: justice, compassion, and unity, and these values are...
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Published in: 50.50The rightful place of gender equality within Islam
An animated discussion is taking place about the relationship between Islam and equality and justice in the context...
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Published in: 50.50Pakistan: the Taliban's successful marriage of dogma and custom
That the guardians of women's virtue should present a direct threat to it, encapsulates the essential paradox of...
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Published in: 50.50Women's citizenship:implications of the Southern Sudan referendum
How will the result of last month's Southern Sudan referendum affect the prospects for women's participation and...
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Published in: HomeEgypt's post-democratic elections: political meaning beyond the menu of manipulation
Egypt's recent elections went very much as expected. This, however, doesn't mean they were insignificant.
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Published in: 50.50Mobilising for Muslim women’s rights in India
The emerging Muslim women-led networks in India are challenging the authority of the religious elite to represent...
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Published in: HomeA nation against Islam: America's new crusade
An accumulating network of ignorance and prejudice is being mobilised in the United States against hyperbolised...
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Published in: 50.50A tangled web: the politics of gender in Turkey
Although the women’s movement in Turkey has scored major victories in the realm of legal reforms, there is a...
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Published in: HomeThe non-reform of Pakistan's blasphemy laws tells a wider story about Zardari's failure to foster true democracy
The case of Aasia Bibi, a Christian farmhand who was sentenced to death in Pakistan, teaches us how difficult it is...
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Published in: 50.50The unhappy marriage of religion and politics
Subtle and overt forms of resistance notwithstanding, it is clear that women’s rights advocates need to be vigilant...
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Published in: 50.50Two inches below the neck
The battle to defeat the Indecent Dressing Bill in Nigeria marks another point in the struggle between feminists and...
