The Women's War: A Utopia in Syria?

Hi, Women's War Fans! We want to share a new show, Away Days: Reporting from the Underbelly. About the show: Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society. We’re compassionately documenting the underground without wa ...  Show more

In this episode, we travel to the city of Raqqa to meet the male and female co-presidents in charge of its defense and embed with a mixed-gender military unit in the streets of the Islamic State's former world headquarters. Episode Transcript: https://www.thewomenswar.com/ Music: ...  Show more

10 years ago this month, protesters took to the streetss broke out across Syria the country demanding an end to the rule of Bashar Al-Assad. Inspired by similar protests in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and across the region, Syrians sought a democratic and just society, free from oppr ...  Show more

This is a conversation with Banah Ghadbian. She’s a Syrian activist  whose dissertation “Ululating from the Underground: Syrian Women’s  Protests, Performances, and Pedagogies under Siege” was the subject of our conversation. As usual, we ended up talking about a lot ...

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN'S DAY!

Kristen R. Ghodsee, American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, joins Breht once again to discuss her latest book, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialis ...

What role did Kurdish women play in Iran's protests last year? The death of Jina Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iranian authorities sparked mass demonstrations for women’s rights under the rallying cry of "Women, Life, Freedom." But the Kurdish minorities behind this resistance have ...  Show more