Sexism and the Objectification of Women Acros...

Tarvaa travels to the underworld, and Jesus opens the blind man's eyes. ★ Support this podcast ★ 

Bernard of Clairvaux calling thousands to leave their homes where they are praised and known and named by all to find themselves on the long and lonely road. Likewise Jesus, calls us to discover that we too are lame and poor and blind and cripple on the long and lonely road if we ...  Show more

Hawraa Al Hassan’s Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba’thist State: Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, 1968-2003 (University of Edinburgh Press, 2020) is unique because it both explores discourse concerning women and how women themselves used literature to create ...  Show more

Achasah and Sue are the founders of the 'Women who Thrive' community which was established in Dubai to give women a chance to speak their truth, and share their vision with others who are on similar paths. In this episode, Achasah and Sue speak to us about how they started Women ...  Show more

In this Conversation, we talked to Hoda Elsadda about her research on Arab literary history from a gender perspective where she attempts to answer the question: if gender is a category of analysis, how would we rewrite the history of the Arab literary tradition?

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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