Kafa, Jinsaya, Nasawiya

Ahmed Al-Rawi, “Framing the online women’s movements in the Arab world” (Feb 2014). This article discusses popular online protests spearheaded by Arab women in an effort to break down social and institutional barriers preventing women from speaking out and expressing their concerns without having to fear persecution. Amongst these concerns were: “lack of employment opportunities, corruption, …

Gender in the Politics of Uprisings

Ahmed Al Rawi’s publishing, “Framing the online women’s movements in the Arab world”, was brilliantly written. While it was a research paper, and those are expected to be objective, I truly appreciated the manner in which it was written in. Like Maya Mikdashi’s articles highlighted, most studies pertaining to feminism are done so in a …