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It rained profusely on the front of the car windows. It was 6:03 AM, and Beyoncé was blasting through the speakers, as we drove along the empty 403 Highway from Toronto to Chicago. “Feminist”, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie declared on the soundtrack, “a person who believes in the social, political, a..

In this interview for STATUS/الوضع, host Mohamad Ali Nayel speaks w..

Weeks before the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, Indian theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty published her book, Feminism without Borders, in which she discusses the hegemony of Western feminism and its deadly transnational effects. In doing so, Mohanty did not reveal a truth that other feminists..

Call for Papers

“Reflections on Palestinian Women and Cinema”

Editors: Shahd Wadi and Júlia Garraio

The deadline for submission is March 31, 2014

In 2011 we organized a cinema and debate-cycle entitled ‘Palestinian Women and Cinema’ in Lisbon and..

H.G. Carrillo is the author of the excellent Loosing My Espanish, which is why I jumped at the chance to enroll in his Fiction Writing course at the George Washington University. On the first day of class, as I was looking through the syllabus, this caught my attention:

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On 10 September 2013, the Quebec government led by the Parti Quebecois introduced its Charter of Quebec Values, that it hopes to implement in that Canadian province. If passed, the charter would..

Nicola Pratt, "The Gender Logics of Resistance to the `War on Terror`: Constructing Sex-Gender Difference Through the Erasure of Patriarchy in the Middle East." Third World Quar..

Palestinian rap trio DAM dropped their latest video “If I Could Go Back in Time” a week ago at a press conference in Ramallah. Working in

The following interview with Jadaliyya Co-Editor Maya Mikdashi was conducted by Eugenio Dacrema for the Istituto per gli studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), on whose website it was originally published on 21 June 2012. In the ..

This week Foreign Policy published a “Sex Issue.” They explained their decision to feature a special issue with these words

Foreign Policy`s first-ever Sex Issue…is dedicated…to the consideration of how and wh..

Women`s rights and the regulation of gender and sex norms in the Arab world have long been put under the spotlight by local and international activists in addition to local and international politicians and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). This year, the ongoing upris..

Last month the Lebanese judiciary repealed an article of the penal code commonly referred to as “the honor crime” law. Years of pressure from activist groups and national and international human rights non-..

On the surface, the question “What is a Citizen?” seems easy to answer. A citizen is a person who is endowed with legal rights by, and duties to, the country of which one is a citizen. Thus, a U.S. citizen is someone who is allowed to vote in U.S. state and federal elections, to serve in the U.S..

[The Baladi Campaign was launched by a group of women activists from across Saudi Arabia after the Saudi government announced in March that it would deny women their right to political participation in the upcoming September 2011 elections. The government justified its ban on female voters on th..