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Artists Decolonizing Colonial Depictions of Women from the Middle East and North Africa
“The Postcard Women’s Imaginarium” is a project that uses women's artwork to offer an alternative narrative to colonial-era postcards that framed MENA women as “exotic.”
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A Closer Look: Women in the Saudi Filmmaking Industry
As Saudi Arabia’s film industry expands, women see new opportunities.
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Abu Dhabi Exhibition Reflects Conversations on Feminism in the Region
The first-of-its-kind show highlights the experiences of women in West Asia, North Africa, and South Asia while examining the intersectionalities of race, migration, and class.
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Exhibit Gives Voice to Women Artists From the Arab Gulf Region
The exhibit coincides with the #LanAsket (“I will not be silenced”) movement against gender-based violence and harassment.
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Saudi sisters who fled from their families are granted asylum after months in Hong Kong
The development in their case comes after a months-long saga in which the women, who said they fled to escape an abusive family and restrictive society, hid out in Hong Kong and stayed in various safe houses out of fear they could be intercepted and forced to return home.
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January 20, 2012 | Hoda Elsadda |
International
Egypt—The Revolution Will Continue
January 25 marks the anniversary of the onset of protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Here, Hoda Elsadda, an Egyptian women’s rights activist and professor at Cairo University, assesses women’s gains, potential losses and determination to move forward—as evidenced by last month’s 10,000-woman strong protest march.
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October 10, 2011 | Abigail E. Disney |
International
Woman of Peace—Leymah Gbowee
The producer of "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" and of a PBS series premiering Tuesday this week, "Women, War and Peace," writes of her friend Leymah Gbowee, who along with sister Liberian, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and pro-democracy campaigner Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Women at the Front—Two Reporters Join a Sisterhood
At danger spots in the Middle East and elsewhere, CNN reporters Sara Sidner and Arwa Damon lend their particular perspectives, in a tradition of war correspondents who happen to be women.
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June 28, 2011 | Marcia G. Yerman |
International
Yanar Mohammed—Iraqi Women's Vigilant Champion
The democratic spirit of the Arab Spring uprisings is alive and well in the determination of women protesters in Iraq, who are seeing their rights slip away under the current administration.
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May 11, 2011 | Noushin Darya Framke |
International
Osama Is Dead! Will the Healing Begin?
Iranian-American writer Noushin Darya Framke: it's time to move on from the "war on terror."
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Female Faces from the Liberation Square
As Egypt prepares for a referendum on Constitutional amendments—one that was scheduled for Saturday but may be delayed in the face of significant opposition from young organizers among others—the author, an expert on Egyptian women and development, reflects on the youthful leaders of the revolution.
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A Palestinian Midwife Who Defies the Odds
Feeza Shraim overcame violence and Israeli embargoes in the Gaza Strip to bring new life to her damaged homeland, as independent journalist Nida Khan recounts before Shraim receives her award from A...
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Out of the Ash Cloud: An Al Jazeera Festival Premiere
An American filmmaker reflects on screening her documentary on Muslim women religious leaders at the Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival in Qatar.
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Honoring Helen Thomas
In the wake of veteran reporter Helen Thomas's resignation from the White House Press Corps after her controversial comments, photojournalist Jenny Warburg and urban educational leader Linda Belans honor Thomas's trailblazing career as a journalist.
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July 02, 2009 | Sahar Driver |
International
Movement or Revolution? Learning From Developments in Iran
Yesterday in Iran, presidential challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi called the government illegitimate and asked for protests to continue. Iranian-American commentator Sahar Driver tells us that, whatever happens in the near future, the reform movement has already achieved significant gains.
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Obscure Beginnings to Justice for Abeer
While most of the country was focused on the election aftermath, former U.S. soldier Steven D. Green was quietly arraigned today at a U.S. courthouse in Louisville, Kentucky, three blocks from the Show n’ Tell Lounge advertising “girls, girls, girls.”
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Military Justice System Fails One More Victim of Sexual Violence
The life stories of Jessica Brakey and Abeer Al-Janabi unfold a half a world apart. Yet the former Air Force Academy cadet and the dead Iraqi girl are both powerful symbols of women’s experience of sexual assault. The legal tales of both are curiously juxtaposed this fall in the military’s sprawling criminal justice system.