The protests that we observe as Jina’s Revolution or the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi”-Revolution in Iran have been taking place since September 2022. Following the state femicide of Kurdish-Iranian woman Jina Amini by the hijab police in Iran, rage at the Islamic Republic’s misogynistic rule spread throughout the country. At Jina’s funeral in the Kurdish city […]
Feminism has more than a century of history in North Africa and the Middle East. In fact, if the 16th of March 2023 marked the centenary of the establishment of the Ittihad al-Nisa’ al-Misri (The Egyptian Feminist Union, EFU), which was the first independent and explicitly feminist organization in the Arab world, led by Huda […]