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Tag: women


  • Sisterhood in climbing. Meet Asma from Afghanistan

    Sisterhood in climbing. Meet Asma from Afghanistan

    “We can’t go to school, university, work, nor can we play our favourite sports. We had no choice but to leave our country”. Interview with a climber from Afghanistan.


  • Feminist Qawwali or just plain advertising?

    Feminist Qawwali or just plain advertising?

    Did you think a battle of the voices is a Western invention? Musical skirmishes had been organised in northern India and Pakistan before it was cool


  • Lebanon: women win record number of seats in parliamentary elections

    Lebanon: women win record number of seats in parliamentary elections

    May’s parliamentary elections in Lebanon were groundbreaking. They are a hope for real change and a better future for a country in crisis. As many as 88 young people (between 25 to 35 years old) and 155 women were among the number of 1043 candidates. These are the historical numbers


  • Al-Busaidi: Meet the first female football commentator in the Arab World

    Al-Busaidi: Meet the first female football commentator in the Arab World

    Not a single adjective or representation nor any of her numerous (ten, to be exact) former employments could sufficiently and properly introduce the unique individual that is Rumaitha al-Busaidi. Undoubtedly this young activist’s energy could easily fuel at least a few people around her and still keep her going.


  • They took what was at hand and kicked out the cartels. Meet Mexican women from Cherán

    They took what was at hand and kicked out the cartels. Meet Mexican women from Cherán

    Drug cartels, gangs that engage in illegal logging, corrupt politicians and police passivity. This was the everyday life of the Mexican town of Cherán, inhabited by the indigenous community of Purépecha. Today the people of Cherán live on their terms. All thanks to the women who took matters into their own hands at the right…