Ep 1 - Universalism, Secularism and Islamism:...

Coming into this project, my goal was to mould my final perspective on what kind of feminism should exist in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa based on the experiences of the women I spoke to. So for this final concluding episode, I wanted to summarize my takeaway ...  Show more

In the first episode of the podcast, we discussed how the two opposing nodes of feminism in Arab societies often present a difficult choice for Arab women. They are forced to reconcile the kind of feminist they are with the kind of feminist are they expected to be and this can of ...  Show more

A decade after the uprisings that changed the political landscape of many countries in North Africa and the Middle East, Kim Chakanetsa looks at what impact the Arab uprisings had on the lives of women in Egypt and Syria.

Mona Eltahawy is an Egyptian-American author and ...

Dans l’imaginaire collectif, la France aurait consacré sur son territoire la pleine l’égalité entre les genres, et les pays musulmans seraient des espaces oppressifs où règnent de façon continue le sexisme et l’homophobie. Evidemment, les rapports femmes-hommes au Maghreb et a ...

In this afikra FWD, Hasheemah Afaneh talked about 'Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring 20s' by Raphael Cormack. Cormack unveils the rich histories of independent, enterprising women like vaudeville star Rose al-Youssef (who launched one of Cairo’s most important newsp ...  Show more

Marilyn Booth speaking on her new book. This book is an intellectual biography of early Arabic feminist Zaynab Fawwaz (c.1850-1914) and a study of her life in Ottoman Syria and Egypt, in the context of Arabophone debates on gender, modernity and the good society, 1890s-1910. Chap ...  Show more