Nawal el Saadawi: Writer and Revolutionary (2016)
We live in one world under patriarchal capitalism. I am opposed to anything that divides us. The differences between people and cultures that literature erases, theory generalizes and abstracts. This is how Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi articulated her personal philosophy and life choices during a September 2014 meeting with Chinese women writers at Beijing Normal […]
Women and the Arab Spring: A Transnational, Feminist Revolution (2016)
Spanning the Middle East and North Africa region and using real cases, this chapter traces the trajectory of euphoria, backlash, and persistence that has marked women’s participation in the Arab Spring transnational revolution. The chapter reveals how in revolutions, as in wars, norms and values are suspended “for the duration” in order to accommodate necessary […]
Creativity and Resilience in the Syrian Revolution (2016)
R/evolutions: Global Trends & Regional Issues In Syria, a country cowed into silence and compliance for forty years, a revolution broke out in march 2011. In digital and plastic arts, in videos, still images and films, in novels and short stories, organic intellectuals inside and outside their country crafted works that emerged out of the […]