Tag: women
Freedom on Trial: 100 Days for Betty Lachgar
It’s been 100 days since Moroccan feminist and LGBT+ advocate Ibtissame Betty Lachgar (also known as Betty) has been behind bars—detained for what her sister describes as a t-shirt, a prosthetic arm on the brink of collapse, and a broader battle for freedom of conscience, expression and bodily autonomy. This blog unpacks the case, the ...
DOME 2025: Fractured: Between Truth and Lies by Reem Abou-Samra
a political scientist, educator, and poet whose work explores Muslim American identity, belonging, and political thought. With over 15 years of teaching experience and current research on cultural return among Muslim millennial women, she brings a powerful blend of scholarship, creativity, and community engagement to every space she enters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UPhuiQvnXI JOIN DOME
From Stigma to Strength: Navigating Divorced Identity as Arab American Muslim Woman and Political Arena – Micho Assi
As a divorced, single mother and immigrant, I'll share my personal journey of navigating the challenges of feeling 'not enough' in multiple roles - not enough American in some spaces , not enough as a woman in other spaces , not enough as a divorced parent. Yet, through pain and struggle, I've transformed these feelings ...
Arab Women at Work– Simone Fattal’ NY Exhibition. by B Nimri Aziz
Retrospective Exhibition of Simone Fatal-- MoMA PS1, NY Even in New York, it’s not often one has an opportunity to view a sculpture exhibit on the scale of Simone Fattal’s 50-year retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art PS 1. It’s a splendid assemblage of work—247 items— from a prolific artist generously distributed over spacious ...
Arab Women Authors Narrate More Than Women’s Experience
Arab Women Authors Narrate More Than Women’s Experience, 05/25/18 by BNimri Aziz A flood of women’s memoirs seems to have landed in the literary marketplace, along with quasi memoirs for children. Not only confessionals and more discoveries about our gender and its vicissitudes, but revelations of rebellious girls of past generations, (Brazen: Rebel Ladies who ...
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