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Published in: 50.50State feminism in Tunisia: reading between the linesThe Tunisian experience with state feminism is a model to draw lessons from, especially for the Arab-Muslim...
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Published in: 50.50Disquiet and despair: the gender sub-texts of the 'Arab spring'The extreme precariousness of women’s rights in post- Arab spring successor regimes can neither be fully accounted...
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Published in: 50.50Making visible the invisible: commodification is not the answer
If you are invisible as a producer in the GDP, you are invisible in the distribution of benefits in the economic...
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Published in: 50.50Culture versus rights dualism: a myth or a reality?
Women’s human rights discourse and movements have become entangled within a culture-versus-rights dualism. Yakin...
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Published in: 50.50Women defining economic citizenship
How can we empower women to participate in existing economic structures and also transform them? We need a model of...
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Published in: 50.50Narrating the Arab spring from within
What are the evolving narratives of the Arab Spring? Hoda Elsadda reports from a conference in Cairo examining the...
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Published in: 50.50Iranian responses to the “Arab spring”: appropriation and contestation
While the Iranian government authorities attempted to appropriate the Arab spring, claiming it was a continuation of...
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Published in: 50.50The hidden lives of child widows
Child widows, some less than ten years old, face bleak futures as they bear the triple disadvantage of gender,...
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Published in: 50.50The Saudi response to the ‘Arab spring’: containment and co-optionSaudi Arabia’s response to the ‘Arab spring’ has been an attempt to co-opt movements for change in a bid to maintain...
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Published in: 50.50Conflict and Custom in the New World Order : a conversation with Gita Sahgal
"There is a struggle to be had. It is time to challenge the hegemony of the formal human rights movement and its...
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Published in: 50.50'Soft law' and hard choices: a conversation with Gita SahgalA conversation exploring the challenges posed by the international conjuncture following the “war on terror” for...
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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...
