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 …

Gender

Maya Mikdashi raises several points about the gendering of protests and how significant (and delicate) the study of gender is, specifically in relation to the Arab world. She acknowledges that when protests occur and are studied, they are quickly sexualized or gendered when women are involved. Female participants are referred to as ‘female protestors’, furthering …