TOPIC feminism
features
detox • 13 min read
DETOX | Better late than never
Women are rightfully angry, and they’re demanding to be heard.
11 July 2020
architecture • 18 min read
Detox | Lazy beginnings
Our usual recommendations, if you’re spending the weekend at home in an attempt to fend off the cold
10 January 2020
marriage • 20 min read
Someone sleeping in your bed: On feminism and marriage in Egypt
Ghadeer Ahmed | Ghadeer Ahmed on feminism and marriage in Egypt
18 August 2018
literature • 10 min read
Literary gems: Latifa al-Zayat’s The Open Door 
Ismail Fayed | A novel that enmeshes the struggle of ambitious young women with the national independence struggle
31 March 2017
International Women's Day 2017 • 7 min read
Personal status laws – Feminist testimonies from Egypt
Azza Soliman | Azza Soliman explains how Egypt employs a legal approach that restricts women’s rights
14 March 2017
International Women's Day 2017 • 7 min read
Bodily rights – Feminist testimonies from Egypt
Ghadeer Ahmed | I’ve been working on bodily rights since the revolution. Before 2011, I was a really ordinary woman.
11 March 2017
International Women's Day 2017 • 6 min read
Politics as a path – Feminist testimonies from Egypt
Kheloud Gomaa | Like most young men and women of my generation, my involvement in public affairs began with the January
8 March 2017
International Women's Day 2017 • 8 min read
Feminist testimonies from Egypt: A series
Hind Ahmed Zaki | The introduction to our series marking International Women's Day this year
6 March 2017
academia • 7 min read
Ikhtyar: A knowledge hub on gender and sexuality
Heba Afify | On a Saturday morning, seven women and three men sit on bean bags in Ikhtyar’s Abbasseya office
8 December 2015
 
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Opinion
Soheir Asaad
Tali’at: Our Struggle to Reclaim Politics
Our national struggle has yet to develop a radical, non-hierarchical understanding of liberation
16 December 2019
Hala Marshood
Tali’at: Putting feminism at the center of Palestinian liberation
Social violence has been manifested inward, typically within that smallest of ostensibly safe places
26 October 2019
Labwat
A feminist response to an ‘alternative’ reading
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Mada Masr published an article “An Alternative Reading
7 April 2015
 
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News
Aliaa al-Mahdy • 3 min read
Egyptian blogger menaced for nude photo defiling Islamic State flag
26 August 2014
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Cartoons
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Girls be like
Andeel | Woman: "Shit... a man!"
15 March 2015
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Cartoon: Socialization
Andeel | Man 1: "My wife." Man 2: "It's a pleasure."
13 October 2014
 
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