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Published in: 50.50The 'feminism' of patriarchy in EgyptImages of women and the brutal violence against them, whether committed by the Army, Police, Muslim Brotherhood or...
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Published in: 50.50Women's human security rights in the Arab world: on nobody's agendaSecurity breakdown has wreaked havoc with women’s lives in Arab transition countries, but it is hardly recognized in...
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Published in: 50.50Takeovers and makeovers: using the landscape to re-write history in post-revolutionary CairoClearing sites of mass protest in Cairo and stamping them with symbolic representations of their preferred narrative...
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Published in: 50.50Secular space: bridging the religious-secular divide?
One of the goals in a new report on women and Arab Spring by CARE International is to build bridges between...
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Published in: 50.50Sudan’s popular protest movement: will the international community continue to ignore it?The recent protests in Sudan were characterized by unprecedented levels of street participation. Dalia Haj-Omar asks...
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Published in: 50.50Sudanese women: you can beat us but you cannot break usAmira Osman is awaiting trial for refusing to cover her hair. She is one of thousands of Sudanese women who are...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: back to military despotism?
The only way out of the current stalemate is launching an inclusive reconciliation process in which all political...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: growing anger with western opinion
Selective reporting by the western media, and expert opinion predicting Egypt's future based on the familiar pattern...
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Published in: 50.50Algeria: the real lessons for Egypt
For all its problems, Algeria never became an Islamic state. Like Algerian progressives in the 1990s, Egyptian...
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Published in: 50.50Iraq: gendering authoritarianismWomen in Iraq bear the brunt of increasing levels of gender-based violence, inadequate infrastructure and poverty....
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Published in: 50.50Opportunities and pitfalls in Egypt’s roadmap
The only way to safeguard against the emergence of another dictatorship in Egypt is a political settlement that is...
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Published in: 50.50J’Accuse the West!
There is a perception among the non-Islamist political movements and civil society that there is a western...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of women’s rights promotion in Jordan
The promotion of women’s rights through the introduction of gender quotas in Jordan is being used to score points on...
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Published in: 50.50Patriarchy and militarism in Egypt: from the street to the government
The lack of institutional concern for epidemic levels of sexual harassment and assault in Egypt is part of the...
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Published in: 50.50The framework of democracy is human rights law
Democracy is more of a culture than a way of governing or a political system. It is a historical process that must...
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Published in: 50.50چهار چوب دموکراسی حقوق بشر است
دموکراسی قبل از آنکه یک روش حکومتی و یا سیستم سیاسی باشد، یک فرهنگ و پروسه تاریخی است که باید سیر تکاملی خود را طی...
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Published in: 50.50How to challenge the patriarchal ethics of Muslim legal traditionOne lesson from the 1979 Iranian revolution and the 2011 Arab revolutions is that activists seeking to promote...
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Published in: 50.50The Egyptian opposition: from protestors to revolutionaries?
The failure to translate the momentum of the heady days of the January 2011 protests in Egypt into an effective...
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Published in: 50.50A war against women: The CSW declaration and the Muslim Brotherhood riposte
The statement issued by the Muslim Brotherhood in response to the UN Commission on the Status of Women draft Agreed...
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Published in: 50.50Troubling parallels, hopeful differences: Iran, women, and the 'Arab spring'Despite parallels with Iran, Haideh Moghissi notes more hopeful prospects for the future of women’s rights and...
