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Iraq: Endless Crises & a Short Skirt

According to the student’s mother, a physician working in Kirkuk, the event was entirely student-led.…

War’s Legacy as a Daily Threat to Sudanese Refugee Women in Uganda

War’s Legacy as a Daily Threat to Sudanese Refugee Women in Uganda

The testimonies of the nineteen women interviewed for this investigation reveal a stark gap between…

The Tragedy of Rayan Al-Najjar: When “Honor” Migrates with the Family

Khaled Al-Najjar appeared to continue exercising authority even from afar. Having orchestrated the killing and…

“Manara Man”: A Self-Appointed Moral Guardian With a Hand Ready to Strike

The real danger in the Manara incident is not only the man who struck the…

The “Migration” of Batoul Alloush: Speech, Power, and Disappearance 

Batoul reduced her new reality to a single word drawn from the realm of religious…

Kuwait’s War on Citizenship: Women Among the Main Targets 

People’s lives have thus been reduced to a state of anxious waiting and one haunting…

Digital Sexual Harassment Targets SRHR Activists in Egypt

Direct messaging (DMs), Mai points out, is often the main channel of interaction with such…

How many Adlas must we lose before we act?

I believe the writer Nadine Jaber did not intend Ghadi to be merely Adla’s lost…

Twice Victimized: How Lebanon’s Legal System Treats Survivors of Sexual Assault

“No one cared about what happened to me or about my psychological state. Something broke…

Abduction, Kidnapping, or Forced Disappearance: Different Faces of Violence Against Syrian Women

It seems to me that what is happening in Syria today to minority women cannot…