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Published in: HomeWe may be stateless but we are not voicelessThe stateless in Kuwait have been trapped in poor conditions for two decades. The Arab Spring has provided hope that...
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Published in: 50.50Women in the new Libya: challenges ahead
Will the rights of the women, who participated in the struggles leading to fall of Gaddafi, be put under pressure in...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian storytelling: a vessel for power
Writing has come to mean place and presence, and presence gives us power to force those who don't acknowledge our...
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Published in: HomeThe second Egyptian revolution: millions of Egyptians have left their homes
The renowned Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist wrote from the eye of the storm on...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: the battle over hope and morale
The deliberate attempt to discredit women's rights by associating them with the ex- first lady Suzanne Mubarak is a...
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Published in: 50.50Tunisia: Arab Spring, Islamist Summer
Tunisia has voted in the first open and fair election in the region. In part two of a three part article Kristine...
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Published in: 50.50Tunisia: Feminist Fall?Nine months after the overthrow of the former president, Tunisia has voted in the first open and fair election in...
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Published in: 50.50Tunisia: Women's winter of discontent
Nine months after the overthrow of the former president, Tunisia has voted in the first open and fair election in...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: does the revolution include the Copts?
Sectarian clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians highlight the recurring question about what role Copts will...
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Published in: 50.50Unruly politics: atomised movements, activist individuals and clientilism
Do new social media create new forms of citizen action? Jenny Morgan reports on a knowledge exchange conference in the Hague
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Published in: 50.50"Mighty be our powers": peaceful women and the global south
“We have included the Arab Spring in this prize, but we have put it in a particular context. Namely, if one fails to...
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Published in: 50.50Women Nobel Peace Laureates congratulate three new women Laureates
The women Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative—Jody Williams (USA), Shirin Ebadi (Iran), Mairead Maguire...
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Published in: HomePart 2. Tunisie Profonde: spring, summer and the coming electionsOn her return from Tunisia, the author kept in touch with some of the young people in the south, and began a diary...
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Published in: HomeTunisia: brief encounters, Part 1The author, who travelled to Tunisia last April, recorded her multicultural experiences at a time of revolution to...
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Published in: HomeSharia and Egypt’s Constitution: an Iraqi blueprint
The constitutional debates that took place in the run-up to the formation of the current Iraqi constitution provide...
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Published in: 50.50Tunisia: will democracy be good for women's rights?
History reveals an abundance of democratic paradoxes: cases in which progress on women’s rights regressed in the...
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Published in: 50.50Year of the boomerang? Frantz Fanon and the Arab uprisings
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Fatin Abbas...
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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: 50.50From Tahrir square to my kitchen
Despite the vibrancy of mobilization in Egypt after Mubarak, Hania Sholkamy’s account of the 8th of March...
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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...
