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international women’s day
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Children of the unknown
[Editor’s note: This investigation has been nominated for the 2020 Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press. It was originally published in Arabic on 16 May, 2019. The reporting was carried out with the support of the Network of Iraqi Reporters for Investigative Journalism (NIRIJ), under the supervision of Kami al-Melhem.] 13-year-old Hibatullah stood in a long queue with a group of women…
Language and sexuality
[Editor’s note: This article is part of Al-Jumhuriya’s “Gender, Sexuality, and Power” series. It was also published in Arabic on 29 November, 2018.] Whether we take language to be an invisible, faithful scribe of reality, and of the collective symbolic and psychological system of any given meeting of humans, or whether it manufactures its own social reality subsequently; that’s to say, whether we suppose…
Sochi: No place for feminists
[Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Arabic on 1 February 2018] “As a feminist movement, you should go to Sochi,” said a Western feminist activist to us prior to last week’s ‘Syrian National Dialogue Congress’ in Russia. When I asked her why in God’s name we would do such a thing, she replied, “What if there are no women? What if women’s rights…
When Aleppo’s widows speak
I returned to it, and was determined to rebuild my relationship with it. Was I broken at the time? Why? I don’t know, and perhaps it doesn’t matter. What matters is these earnest intentions of mine were one-sided, as I would learn. From the end of 2014 to the end of 2015, the city was not a place, in the wider sense of the term,…
“May there be relief”: On food in Adra Women’s Prison
[Editor’s note: The below article was produced as part of Al-Jumhuriya’s 2017 Fellowship for Young Writers. It was originally published in Arabic on 11 January, 2018.] It’s two o’clock in the morning, the lights are turned off, and I’ve been in a deep sleep for two hours now. Although nighttime in prison is not much different from daytime, even if it could be said to…
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