Saudi Women Driving Protest, 2000
While much focus has been placed in the past year on Saudi women’s driving endeavours, the act is not unique. …
Category Archives: Womyn
Women, Know Thy Place!
Else you will be sent to the Obedient Wives Club: All of which prompts me to propose the Obedient Husbands …
Chauvinism, Insecurities and the Real Anchormen
I don’t usually have favourite journalists, but if I do, they are generally on Al-Jazeera. The channel has a happy …
Manal Al-Sharif and the Counter-jerks
For every ardent campaigner there is a counter-jerk, and in the case of Manal Al-Sharif and her bid to place …
FemEO: For ladies who (net)work
A dreadfully belated heads-up on a fabulous initiative launched by the folks at Bayt earlier this month. FemEO provides an …
Islam and Domestic Violence
Putting the record straight in 2009 is Shaykh Hamza Yusuf: An irksome misconception about Islam is its perceived endorsement of …
Saudi ladies and their wheels
For people with only a blinkable interest in the Middle East the words ‘women’ and ‘Saudi Arabia’ conjure one response: …
Women and the New Tunisia
Although Tunisia has slipped from the Western news agenda despite yesterday’s violence, it is heartening to see that one aspect is still …
Mona Eltahawy vs. Tariq Ramadan Smack-down
I have a theory that if womankind watches Mona Eltahawy each morning, the global patriarchal structure would fall and by …
Intelligent Women? Rare as Bicephalous Gorillas
The following excerpt by the French sociologist Gustave Le Bon was composed in 1879 and is a testament to how …
