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Published in: 50.50The madame's story: renegotiating Cairo’s informal service sectorThe Egyptian Government’s anti-terrorism measures are causing subtle but significant shifts in Cairo’s vibrant...
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Published in: 50.50The maid's story: renegotiating Cairo’s informal service sectorThe Egyptian Government’s anti-terrorism measures are causing subtle but significant shifts in Cairo’s vibrant...
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Published in: 50.50Women and science: time to cut the NeurotrashOpportunities need to be made for young girls to identify with science while providing fairer employment for working...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian women's rights: no time for dissentThe act of dissent should match the need for equality, rather than the time for equality. In the fight for a right,...
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Published in: 50.50Domestic violence in Sri Lanka: the power of alternative discourse
The Prevention of Domestic Violence Act has opened up an important and new discursive ‘space of struggle’ to debate...
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Published in: 50.50Shackles different from my own: building an intergenerational women's movementInclusion and representation are at the centre of the many struggles for women's human rights, and are equally...
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Published in: 50.50Report thy neighbour: policing Sisi’s Egypt
A regime bereft of legitimacy, save for its promise to guarantee national security, turns citizens into active...
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Published in: 50.50Rest in power, Assia Djebar
Why is it that the homeland always rejects its most erudite children? Latefa Guemar pays tribute to the feminist...
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Published in: 50.50Debating a 5th World Conference on Women: defiance or defeatism ?
The past four World Conferences on Women have galvanized activism and strengthened women's movement building. Now is...
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Published in: 50.50Islam and the "culture of offence": missing the point
In the age of ISIS, dissent and criticism of religion is a life and death necessity. It has been - and remains - key...
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Published in: 50.50Roast or toast? Mapping changes in violent menRecognising that we have reached a stalemate in dealing with violent men, and an impasse in policy and research on...
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Published in: 50.50Gendered paradoxes of Egypt’s transition
Four years after the downfall of Mubarak, women face a new patriarchal bargain: abandoning all forms of independent...
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Published in: 50.50The ethics of feminist engagement: discussing feminism-as-imperialism
The responses by Saadia Toor and Deepa Kumar to Meredith Tax's article depend on a one-dimensional and tired...
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Published in: 50.50"Truth needs witnesses"The column Saïd Mekbel published the day before he was assassinated in 1994 remains sadly topical today - recalling...
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Published in: 50.50Women's rights have no countryThere is no blueprint for holding fast against the arguments used to dismiss women's humanity, or defending our hard...
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Published in: 50.50Article 11: feminists negotiating power in Egypt
Faced with unequal power relations at the negotiating table and authoritarian consolidation, a member of the...
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Published in: 50.50Addressing Northern Ireland’s incomplete peace: young feminists speak outOrganising around a belief in feminism’s ability to articulate and represent visions of peace and politics, a new...
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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: 50.50Egypt: a reality too dark in which to glimpse hope?The last known message from the Egyptian activist Zainab Mahdy reads, " It's like we're digging in water...There is...
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Published in: 50.50Of canaries and coal mines
Are women the canaries in the coal mine, their ill treatment signalling larger problems within a society? Or is...
