Suchergebnisse

Edited by Suad JosephSyracuse University Press, 2000

Our Heedless WarsTo Beirut, which I no longer love and which I never finish leavingDirected by Randa Chahhal

Edited by Mai Ghoussoub and Emma Sinclair-WebbSaqi Books, 2000

In July 2003, as the Lebanese ministers met for their weekly session to discuss taxes, electricity, and cellular phone companies, two women were standing alone in the scorching heat, at the steps of the cabinet headquarters, desperately trying to get a word with anyone inside. But no one would let them in. The only response they got to their screams and shouts was to be dragged away by the security forces, before any of the ministers even knew they were there. They had walked from around the corner, from where a group of families were holding one of their weekly sit-ins before the National Museum, in one of their many efforts to keep their cause alive - that of the missing - their sons, husbands, and brothers.

Every Saturday night, at around three o'clock in the morning, Music Hall's long velvet crimson curtains draw open, leaving way to a slim, tall figure that takes position in a bare set up, standing under a single spotlight. As the first percussion beat rips through the silence of anticipating viewers, the figure's hips take a bold swing left, and then another right, setting off a series of sexually-teasing belly dance moves.

When lovers of the 'Arab nation' proudly hail the 'glorious' common denominators bringing together the Middle Eastern and North African countries, they obliterateanother number of less glorious facets, one of which is the appalling conditions prevailing in prisons. Indeed, a quick look at the state of prisons in those countriesreveals practices of torture, arbitrary and illegal detention, disregard of the detainees' right to defense and sometimes even death. In some countries, arbitrary arrests have even been legalized, mainly to target certain groups; in others,physical punishment is prescribed by law.

Gender and Politics in Sudan, by Sondra Hale - Westview Press, 1996

Islam, Gender, and Social ChangeEdited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John L. Esposito- Oxford University Press, 1998

By Arundhati RoyLondon: Flamingo, 1997.

When Work Doesn'l Work Anymore by Elizabeth Perle McKennaDelacorte Press, 1997

Follow your Heart - By Susanna Tamaro

By Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitousi

On May 16th, 1999, Sheikh Jaber AI-Ahmed AI-Subah, the Emir of Kuwait, issued a decree granting women the right to vote and run for public office, "in appreciation of the effective and important role played by Kuwaiti women." With Kuwait having the only elected parliament in the Gulf, this move heralded a substantial step in the process of "democratization". Nevertheless, the Kuwaiti experience with democratization took a different turn, on November 30th, 1999, when the Kuwaiti parliament rejected this decree, depriving women thereby from their full constitutional rights, the right to become first-class citizens in their own country.