Mona Kareem

Kuwaiti activist arrested in a Bedoon protest “We just want to be like Kuwait” is a sentence that one might often hear from people of ...

In my previous  post , I wrote about the recent meeting of the United Nation’s Human Rights Council about Bahrain. Recommendations “demanded...

Last week, many Kuwaitis were either shocked or thrilled by a YouTube video showing a group of young actors getting attacked by some unk...

Image from I. Piccioni-A. Tiso/Molo7 Photo Agency The issue of statelessness in the Gulf is as old as the post-colonial oil states f...

A year ago, many Bedoon activists wouldn’t have been able to answer questions about the status of their counterparts in the United Arab E...

Since the 1990s, Saudi women have been demanding the right to drive cars, travel alone, and abolish the male guardianship system. The str...

تفتح الرواية، تبدأ بخطاب حب للسيد الرئيس حسني مبارك، ثم تقرأ 8 صفحات عن رجل اسمه نعيم. الصفحات الأولى تأتي مسرحية أو وصفية (يقول الراوي ب...

Mona Eltahawy’s article “ Why do they hate us ?,” published in Foreign Policy Magazine’s special issue on women, has a catchy title.  When...

Kuwaiti artist Shurooq Amin is in shock after her exhibition of paintings was shut down without an explanation. Reports say that men ...

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