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Published in: 50.50Undressing Um Ahmad: Egyptian women between the bikini and the burquaa'Egypt's new First Lady is covered, a first in the history of this country. Just as her Muslim Brotherhood husband...
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Published in: 50.50أنا و أم أحمد و البيكينيلأول مرة في تاريخ مصر, ترتدي سيدتها الأولى الحجاب و كما أثار زوجها قلق الكثيرون حول مدنية الدولة, أثارت زوجته القلق...
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Published in: 50.50التحرش الجنسي في الشوارع: كسر حاجز الصمت في اليمنحوالي 90% من النساء اليمنيات يتعرضن للتحرش الجنسي في الشوارع يوميا. مجموعة من الناشطات الشابات في مجال حقوق النساء...
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Published in: 50.50Street sexual harassment: breaking the silence in YemenYoung women’s rights activists are using new media to give a voice to the 90% of Yemeni women who face street sexual...
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Published in: 50.50Accepted mishaps? Faith healing, HIV and AIDS responsesAs the 2012 International AIDS Conference gathers to review “the science”, Jessica Horn examines the powerful role...
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Published in: HomeFeminist practice in the 15-M movement: progress and outstanding issuesAs a protest space created by men and women, 15-M has not developed tools for recognising the patriarchal logic to...
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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: 50.50The gender gap and the American presidential election
Will the gender gap that decisively helped Bill Clinton and Barack Obama win the presidency again? Only if women...
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Published in: oDRWhy are Pussy Riot girls still in prison?Reaction inside Russia and further afield to the imprisonment of 3 members of a punk rock girl band after their...
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Published in: 50.50Decoding the “DNA of Patriarchy” in Muslim family laws
Why and how did verse 4:34, and not other verses in the Qur’an, become the foundation for the legal construction of...
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Published in: 50.50"Food sovereignty" as a transformative model of economic power
The argument is being made that “food sovereignty” is an organising principle so demonstrably strong that it has the...
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Published in: 50.50Visible players: the power and the risks for young feminists
From the student protests in Chile, to the protests of the 'Arab spring' in the MENA region, the debate among young...
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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: 50.50Crisis in Mali: fundamentalism, women's rights and cultural resistance
In conversation with Jessica Horn, a leading Malian women’s rights activist identifies the roots of the crisis in...
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Published in: 50.50"We are not women, we are Egyptians": spaces of protest and representation
A focus on the spaces where women asserted their public presence in the Egyptian revolution reveals a great deal...
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Published in: 50.50February 20 movement: reflections of a young activist
The 20th February movement was seen by some as elitist and too focused on political demands, while the people were...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: will there be a place for women's human rights?
In the days ahead a struggle looms over women's human rights and gender justice in Egypt. Will the Muslim Sisters...
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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: 50.50Why women are at the heart of Egypt’s political trials and tribulations
The Egyptian elections delivered a parliament that has one of the lowest rates of female representation in the...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian women: performing in the margin, revolting in the centre"We are constantly aware of our gender and of being watched and judged because of it, so we end up "performing". But...
