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Aliaa Abou Khaddour

Syrian women's century-long fight for sociopolitical change

During the French Mandate, Syria's women's movement went from grassroots protest to established force, setting up schools, helping the poor, and calling for rights and votes

Sawsan Jamil Hasan 12 January 2025
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Does AI help women or simply widen the gender gap?

Artificial Intelligence is helping human endeavour in all manner of fields but the technology is no longer in its infancy and should be equalising imbalances, not accentuating them.

Joudy El-Asmar 02 July 2024
A still image from the film 'Four Daughters' Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival

'Four Daughters' explores themes of femininity under the Islamic State

Film director Kaouther Ben Hania's innovative and unconventional docudrama is part-real, part-fiction. The Tunisian family it depicts is real, as is their pain, and it is scooping up many awards.

Ibrahim Haj Abdi 09 March 2024
From Gaza to Sudan, thousands of women have been killed, and millions have been displaced. In a region engulfed in turmoil and violence, women are disproportionally affected. Lina Jaradat

In a war-torn region, Arab women carry the heaviest burden

From Gaza to Sudan, thousands of women have been killed, and millions have been displaced. In a region engulfed in turmoil and violence, women are disproportionally affected.

Sawsan Jamil Hasan 08 March 2024
Ross Raisin

Read it and reap: British novelist Ross Raisin reflects on his celebrated works

The Yorkshire-born author is today more likely to teach the craft than to engage in it. He speaks to Al Majalla about his four novels and the process of building them.

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 26 January 2024
Before the Nakba erased Palestinian cities, women were present in modern society, culture and politics. A new book proves this, refuting the false claim that Palestine is 'a land without a people'. Aliaa Abou Khaddour

How the Nakba erased great Palestinian cities, and their women, from our collective memory

Before the Nakba erased Palestinian cities, women were present in modern society, culture and politics. A new book proves this, refuting the false claim that Palestine is 'a land without a people'.

Ahmad Ezzeddin Assaad 04 October 2023
England's forward #18 Chloe Kelly celebrates their victory after a penalty shoot-out during the Australia and New Zealand 2023 Women's World Cup round of 16 football match between England and Nigeria at Brisbane Stadium in Brisbane. AFP

How women's football is becoming an arena for culture wars over feminism

Women in England and Spain are celebrating themselves through displays of feminism that have been applauded by some and criticised by others

Bryn Haworth 20 August 2023
President of Spain Pedro Sanchez, center bottom, addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Flashes of Bold UN Talk On Feminism, Masculinity, Patriarchy

Few men in power have delved deeply into gender equality on the main stage of the United Nations this month, but the ones who did went there boldly: claiming feminist credibility, selling “positive…

AP 25 September 2022
A student rally in Iran carrying placards calling for “Bread, Jobs, Freedom and Forming an Assembly of Experts”. (Supplied)

Emerging Cooperation Between Students and Feminists in Iran

The Iranian student movement has succeeded in establishing itself as a powerful social actor after it declared solidarity with the widespread protests that stormed the country in December 2017,…

Fayrouz Ramadan Zada 01 October 2021
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