And I just want to end quoting a tweet from Salma Yacoob who started the hashtag #lifeofamuslimfeminist “White feminists want to pull your hijab off and 'liberate' you and Muslims tell you you don't need feminism #lifeofamuslimfeminist
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Talk Notes from Kieran Flynn Memorial Lecture Series on Islam in the West
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Reaping What We Have Sown in Gaza
Those who turned Gaza into an internment camp for 1.8 million people should not be surprised when they tunnel underneath the earth.
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Sharif Abdel Kouddous: 72 Die in Shejaiya
The Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip has seen its bloodiest day so far, bringing the Palestinian death toll to more than 500. More than 100 Palestinians were killed in a 24-hour period between Saturday …
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Occupy Gezi: The Limits of Turkey’s Neoliberal Success
by Cihan Tugal from Jadaliyya There are two telling, though widely neglected, details about what initiated and popularized the groundbreaking protests in Taksim Square, Istanbul: the protests started out as a response to the governing …
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‘For me, Palestine is paradise’: An interview with Leila Khaled
Exclusive interview with Leila Khaled Recorded on Thursday 3rd of April 2014 First published here. Frank Barat for Le Mur A Des Oreilles (LMADO): How are you Leila? What are you doing nowadays in Amman? Leila Khaled: I am …
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Decoding the Syrian Propaganda War
I’ve met beer-guzzling Syrian rebels who carried the black Al Qaeda flag, but for whom this was no contradiction: Islamist stylings in Syria are typically part performance vocabulary, part unifying norm in a riven society, part symbolic invocation of guerrilla struggle in a post–Iraq War world, and part expression of pure faith.
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Despotism or Feminism
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 of London. In this lecture, Dr. …
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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.
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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.
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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
