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Published in: 50.50Women’s stories from the frontline of Sudan’s revolution must be toldWomen are leading Sudan’s revolt against religious fundamentalism. As in Egypt and Saudi Arabia they face a violent...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian women: depression or oppression?Women continuing to push for change in Egypt are bearing the psychological toll of a rigid post-revolution politics...
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Published in: 50.50Disembodying honour and exposing the politics behind itThe reaction to the public stripping of a Coptic grandmother in Upper Egypt reminds us of the power of popular...
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Published in: 50.50Your fatwa does not apply hereThe UN Human Rights Council has appointed Karima Bennoune as Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights....
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Published in: 50.50Holier than thou?: The anti-imperialist versus the local activistLocal gender activists in the Arab world face both censure from their own societies, and attacks by US-based...
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Published in: 50.50Tunisia's fight against fundamentalism: an interview with Amel Grami
In conversations with Karima Bennoune, Tunisian intellectual Amel Grami shares her analysis of the political crisis...
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Published in: 50.50Opposing political Islam in Tunisia: Mohamed Brahmi's widow speaks out
On the first anniversary of Mohamed Brahmi’s assassination, his widow, Mbarka Brahmi, denounces fundamentalism and...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian women's rights: no time for dissent
The 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: 50.50Gendered 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: 50.50Article 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: 50.50Egypt: 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: 50.50The common factor: sexual violence and the Egyptian state, 2011-2014We must conceptualise the epidemic levels of sexual violence in post-revolutionary Egypt at least partly as “state...
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Published in: 50.50Desolation and despair in Libya: the murder of Salwa BugaighisLooking back, it feels as if Salwa Bugaighis embodied not the hopes and aspirations of the majority of her country's...
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Published in: 50.50From Strongman to Superman: Sisi the saviour of EgyptEgypt’s current political scene is marked by ’Sisi-mania’, as the new leader’s supporters scramble to snap up the...
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Published in: 50.50Simmering tensions: Behind the facade of Amman
Jordan appears to have been relatively unaffected by the upheavals of the Arab uprisings, but growing resentment at...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: a space that isn't our ownLast month a young woman was mob attacked on Cairo University campus. Socially and culturally constructed circles...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt as a role model: an opportunity lost
The January 25th uprising offered Egypt the opportunity to become a role model for peaceful transition in the region...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt's constitutional referendum: the untold story
By ignoring expressions of people power in the Egyptian constitutional referendum, some western political...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: a tale of two constitutionsReading the 2012 and 2013 Egyptian constitutions together is less a tale of successive steps towards constitutional...
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Published in: 50.50The invisible men with the arms
When it comes to gender based violence in Arab transition contexts, it is not only state militarism we should be...
