by: Katherine Zoeff JIDDA — Roughly two years ago, Rowdha Yousef began to notice a disturbing trend: Saudi women like herself were beginning to organize campaigns for greater personal freedoms. Suddenly, there were women asking …
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Talk of Women’s Rights Divides Saudi Arabia
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Tawakkul Karmant, First Female Arab Nobel Peace Laureate: A Nod for Arab Spring
(originally appeared at Democracy Now!) In an interview, Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman said her Nobel Peace prize is a victory for Yemen and for all of the uprisings of the Arab Spring. Karman is a …
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Feminist Association of Tunisian Women
Feminist Association of Tunisian Women for Research and Development.
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Supporting Our Sisters in Afghanistan
As Zohra explains, “Your [US] leaders say they are here to secure Afghanistan, especially for the women. The reporters happily wrote stories about how the Taliban did not let women to go to school. And this is true; many of our women cannot even to read. But now girls cannot go to school, and where is the Taliban? It is not the Taliban who are stopping the girls. What mother would let her child to go to school if they think a bomb will drop on them? For the girls does it matter from which hand the bomb drops?”
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Interview with “Leila” on Torture in Iran
Web Exclusive: Extended interview with “Leila” on torture in Iran BY CIR | CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING | JUNE 10, 2011 PBS NEWSHOUR and the Center for Investigative Reporting mark the two-year anniversary of Iran’s …
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The Riskiest Job in Iran
By Shirin Ebadi Not so long ago, my colleague Nasrin Sotoudeh was the lawyer so many of us human rights defenders in Iran would call when our government harassed us or put one of us, …
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Essential Readings: Iran
by: Raha Iranian Feminist Collective [Image by Farhad Rajabali. Originally published at Jadaliyya] In recent years, there has been a deluge of popular English-language writings by Iranians in exile, as well as hand-wringing public policy …
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