Gender Equality

Women’s Mobilization in Arab Social Movements: What Gains, What Pain?

Women’s Mobilization in Arab Social Movements: What Gains, What Pain?

The post-2019 Arab social movements have provided unprecedented opportunities for women's mobilization and the politicization of citizens on gender issues. However, challenges persist.

 11 July 2023
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Adile Sultan, A Mystical and Rebellious Ottoman Princess

The work of the mystical poetess Adile Sultan is also very important in this context because it helped Turkish women to begin questioning the prohibitions imposed on them, as well as to progress in the development of their personal life strategies.

 22 September 2022

Women of Art: A Long-Distance Run of Endless Stages

Women artists in the southern shore of the Mediterranean, due to the specific realities of their countries, have also had to deal with cultural neo-colonialism in a general context in which the achievements of the last fifty years are threatened.

 22 September 2022

Judith Butler, Catalonia International Prize 2021

On 27 April 2022, the American philosopher Judith Butler received the Catalonia International Prize for her contributions in the field of non-violence.

 22 September 2022

The Decade of the Female Filmmakers of the Arab Uprisings

Filmmakers such as the Lebanese Nadine Labaki, the Tunisians Kaouther Ben Hania and Hinde Boujemaa or the Algerian Mounia Meddour have brought universal and current stories to the screen, defying the strict socio-political norms that govern the Arab...

 22 September 2022

Networking to Change Mentalities

There is a well-known imbalance between the academic training of women and their presence in the business world as entrepreneurs. In general, businesswomen consider that they have enough skills to carry forward their own enterprise but they usually f...

 21 September 2022

Le mouvement du féminisme islamique au Maroc : nouvelles voies vers une déconstruction de l’archaïsme des représentations socioculturelles

Depuis de nombreuses années, le féminisme musulman livre un combat contre l’oppression sexiste et dans de nombreux cas, comme celui du Maroc, cette lutte est née dans un contexte de colonisation, au sein des mouvements nationalistes et contestat...

 21 September 2022

Gender and Youth Emancipation: Silent Strategies for Social Change in the MENA Region

Ten years after the revolutionary movements that shook the MENA region, the young women of these countries have become the spearhead of the transformations that affect the immovable foundations of their societies: adult-centrism and patriarchalism.

 21 September 2022

Muslim Women: Strangers by Nature?

Given that the fight for equality between men and women goes beyond any religion, politics or culture, governments should focus on taking egalitarian legal measures and enable access to education for women, who will have greater capacity to choose fr...

 21 September 2022

The Fight for Women’s Rights Online and Offline

The 10th anniversary of the signing of the Istanbul Convention in 2021 caught the world amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting complex political scenario. Covid-19 twisted the old power structures and highlighted the lack of humanitarian resour...

 20 September 2022

Taking Up Space

The platform She Speaks Science offers a series of stories with a plot and characters that motivate and appeal to the imagination of girls and young women to get closer to science.

 20 September 2022

Communicating the Mediterranean with a Feminist Perspective

The conference “Communicating the Mediterranean with a Feminist Perspective”, held on 4 and 5 November 2021 in Barcelona, was a great opportunity to bring together women journalists from both shores of the Mediterranean.

 20 September 2022

Debates and Demands. What Do We Feminist Journalists Talk About When We Meet?

The meetings of the networks of women journalists and communicators of the Mediterranean began in 1991, and since then participants have talked above all about freedom, the degree of freedom that has enabled their protagonists to do journalism and ac...

 20 September 2022