Mona Kareem

It took Western media a few weeks after the toppling of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to bring up the  question  of women’s rights in re...

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The question of how the Arab uprisings have and will affect the lives and rights of women in the region is particularly significant in the ...

Ali Abdulemam is a Bahraini blogger whose Bahrain Online Forum  was blocked in his country. For his activism, Abdulemam was imprisoned in...

Riyadh Alsalih Alhussain Translated by Mona Kareem [Riyadh Alsalih Alhussain (1954-1982) was born in the Syrian city of Dara’a on Mar...

Prior to the Arab uprisings, street art in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait was seen as a funky, yet westernized, form of expression. Over the past ...

Samah Hijawi and Diala Khasawnih – A Journey As Kuwait was being ‘liberated’ in 1991, angry nationalist ghosts were hunting Palestinian...

In the western Yemeni town of Haradh, on the border with Saudi Arabia, Ethiopian migrants sleep out in the open near a transit center wher...

Since the first days of the Egyptian revolution, sexual harassment was a focus for Western media. Although the issue is important, it was ...