Silenced Voices: Bedouin Lebanese Cultural Identity through Young Women’s Lenses
Six Bedouin women become co-researchers using photography to document their own identities, challenging urban stereotypes and reclaiming the right to ...
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The Lost Innocence of Playing: Why Games are Becoming the New Cultural Battlefield Between the Far Right and its Opponents
Steve Bannon studied World of Warcraft players before he built Breitbart's alt-right pipeline. Ten years after GamerGate, games are still ...
Punk, BDS, and Manga: How Palestinian Resistance Connected Japan’s Fragmented Movements
Japanese BDS campaigns forced companies to cut weapons ties with Israel. Palestinian solidarity now connects punk, feminist, anti-nuclear, and anti-colonial ...
The Joke That Isn’t: Inside Egypt’s “Hahaha Jihad” Against LGBTQ+ People
Threats, tracked locations, coordinated pile-ons: this is what it costs to be visibly queer online in Egypt
Giving Italy a Sound It Has No Category For: An Interview with Palestinian-Italian Singer TÄRA
TÄRA's debut EP Zefiro dropped on Nakba Day. She calls her genre Arab&B, making music for Italy's unrepresented, and she's ...
Diaries of an Academic of Color: On the Limits of Academic Spaces, and Life in Two Places
As Beirut is bombed, an academic speaks about justice and extractivism as she is caught between war at home and ...
Online and Offline Violence are Two Sides of the Same Coin for LGBTQI+ in Egypt
In Egypt, LGBTQI+ people face escalating abuse where online harassment, state complicity, and social hostility intersect, turning digital attacks into ...
Diaries of an Academic of Color: All Shades of Anger – Notes from an Arab Woman in European Academia
In the shadow of Gaza’s genocide, an Arab academic navigates funding, contracts, and collaboration while confronting the quiet violence of ...
For LGBTQ+ People in Egypt, the Internet is Both a Lifeline and a Trap
Social media offers connection for queer Egyptians, but also exposes them to surveillance, entrapment, and harassment under expanding cybercrime laws
From Bab al-Hara to the Umayyad Dream: How Nostalgia Shapes Syria’s New Moral Order
From TV drama to self-Orientalizing political myth, Syria’s revivalist imagery performs purity, masculinity, and belonging while erasing plural histories and ...
Teta’s Hair: A Story of Palestinian Women’s Resilience, Resistance, and Renewal
Across generations of women, curls become threads of survival, love, and Palestine’s unyielding memory.
The Depth of the Gaze: A Conversation with Habiba Djahnine on Algerian Feminist Cinema
The Algerian feminist’s cinematography creates a space for exploring trauma and memory in Algerian society through workshops led together with ...
Between repression and instrumentalization: The double-edged portrayals of Iranian women
A conversation with Iranian feminist activist Firoozeh Favardin on the false binaries imposed on Iranian women's acts of protest.
Inshallah a boy: a middle-class woman’s fight against the system
Following the sudden death of her husband, a Jordanian woman finds herself confronting an oppressive male-world.
“Between Banat”: Queer Arab critique and transnational Arab archives
Queerness, homoeroticism, femininity, sexualities between Arab women as reviewed in transnational Arab literature, art, and film, are addressed in Mejdulene ...
