Dr. Ziba Mir-Hosseini is a legal anthropologist specializing in Islamic law, gender, and development. She is currently Professorial Research Associate at the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Law, University ...
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Women, War and Fundamentalism in the Middle East
[I}f you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let ...
War of Position and War of Maneuver: Sexperts, Sex Pervs, and Sex Revolutionaries
by Sima Shakhsari The recent issue of Foreign Policy on sex has instigated ...
Iran, Women’s Rights and the Arab Spring
For each woman that is imprisoned, another will take her place and ...
Palestine is Still the Issue | Interview – The Angry Arab on Zionism, Syria, and more
In an in-depth and candid interview, academic and political commentator As'ad Abukhalil ...
News Wire
The Arab Spring: The end of postcolonialism
These variations on the theme of delayed defiance hinge on the idea that the revolutions are simultaneously a rejection not just of the colonial oppression they have inherited but, a fortiori, of the postcolonial ideologies that had presented and exhausted themselves as its antithesis in Islamist, nationalist or socialist grand narratives.
Nasrin Sotoudeh Writes From Evin Explaining Reason For Her Hunger Strike
From public and social groups, specifically the Mourning Mothers that have lost their children in the 2009 Movement (I had the honor of representing few of them), to the Mothers for Peace and the women’s rights activists, from the political prisoners that I have the honor of having endured imprisonment with them, to my dear cellmates that endured the hardships associated with my hunger strike, and of course, my husband and my young daughter who endured great sufferings.
Incarcerated Journalist Mehdi Mahmoudian: Over 1,100 Individuals On Death Row In Rejaei Shahr
Reblogged from persianbanoo: Incarcerated journalist, Mehdi Mahmoudian has written a report on the situation of the death-row prisoners in Rejaei Shahr prison. Mehdi Mahmoudian, a member of the Participation Front Party and the Society for the Defense of Prisoners Rights had exposed horrific and deadly conditions in the now closed Kahrizak prison. He had also […]
A Report From The Burial Of Blogger Sattar Beheshti Killed Under Torture In Custody
Reblogged from persianbanoo: 35 years old blogger, Sattar Beheshti was arrested on October 30 at his home in Robat Karim. His family was contacted by authorities on November 6th informing them of his death in custody without giving any further explanation or the cause of death. Following is an interview with an eye witness conducted […]
Eight Members Of The Pan-Iranist Party Arrested
Reblogged from persianbanoo: The Pan-Iranist Youth Organization reports: Thursday evening the home of Reza Kermani was raided and ten members of the Paniranist party were arrested and taken to the police station in Shahrak Naz in Karaj. Two of the arrested were released few hours later but the other eight people were taken to an […]
Human Rights Watch Letter to Clinton on Strategy for Women’s Rights in Post-2014 Afghanistan
Grave Risk to Women’s Rights Without Heightened Commitment and Clear Plans
Lebanon, the Sectarianization of Politics, & Genderalizing the Arab Uprisings
In the interview, Maya discusses developments in Lebanon as they related to the uprising in Syria. She also discusses Lebanese politics more generally as well the workings of gender politics in the Middle East.
Bless us anyway – we want more life!
Dear Steal this Hijab Readers, Thanks for reading, listening, gazing, and opinionating! I started this blog for many reasons. I think the most important of which came from the need to respond intelligently to a question that was very often posed to me – “WHAT?!!! Islamic feminism?! Is there such a thing????” Well, as a […]
western feminism’s relationship with Islamic feminism and notions of “visibility”
by Ari Burton (originally published in hoax zine) The first book I ever bought on Islamic feminism sits on the shelf adjacent to the bed in my childhood room. Its maroon cover is subsumed by the mountain of books piled on top of it in order to maximize shelf space. I remember the amalgamation of tan lettering […]
Can Islamism and Feminism Mix?
TINY Tunisia, where a fruit seller’s suicide sparked the Arab Spring, held its first free elections on Sunday. Over 90 percent of registered voters turned out, far exceeding expectations. Lines of beaming blue-fingered voters poured out of polling places, proudly posting photos of their freshly inked hands on Facebook.
