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Women and Politics in Post-Jina Iran
Mona Tajali 19/06/25
Nearly a year after the eruption of the Woman, Life, Freedom protests across Iran in September 2022, Sedigheh Vasmaghi, a renowned theologian, former politician and poet, publicly removed her hijab in a self-published video. The act was a (...)
The Kurdish Freedom Movement, Rojava and the Left
Thomas Jeffrey Miley 21/09/20
The revolution in the Kurdish region of Syria called Rojava has generated significant enthusiasm among broad segments of the left in Europe and North America. The heroic resistance by Kurdish forces in Kobane, Syria during the siege by the (...)
Jordan’s June 2018 Rising
Sara Ababneh 09/07/18
From May 30 to June 7, 2018 Jordanian protesters took the world by surprise. What had started as protests over a taxation draft law and an increase in gas prices quickly led to a popular rising against the neoliberal path on which the state has (...)
The Reawakening of Nahda
Graham Usher 04/05/11
Casbah Square in Tunis has the feel of the morning after. Strewn around the plaza are the odd, drooping Tunisian flag and other relics of the mass demonstrations that forced the fall of the ex-dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January and (...)
Struggling for the Rule of Law : The Lawyers’ Movement
Daud Munir 13/08/09
In March 2007, when President (and General) Pervez Musharraf suspended Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, Pakistani lawyers took to the streets in large numbers. It was a dangerous street where they were met with batons, barbed wire, (...)
A long way from redressing gender inequality
Camilo Gomez-Rivas 19/08/08
"And now no one wants to get married,” says Muhammad, describing the reaction among men at his mosque to Morocco’s 2004 reform of personal status law. “Everyone is afraid to.” Muhammad’s village of Taghouzight is remote. In the upper reaches of the (...)