The Me Too Movement in the Middle East
by Lara al-Kateb and Omar Abbas with contributions from Selin Cagatay, Frieda Afary, Fatemeh Masjedi and socialist feminists inside Iran The Me Too movement against sexual assault and rape has animated women throughout the world. In the Middle East too, despite...
read moreInterview with Ali Adubisi, Director of the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights,
Below is an interview with Ali Adubisi, Director of the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights, which is currently working on defending Israa al-Ghomgham. Al-Ghomgham has been in pretrial detention in Saudi Arabia for the past three years and might be...
read moreClass Series on What is Socialist Feminism? From Analyzing Oppression to Theorizing Liberation and Organizing
Starting Saturday November 17, 2018, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Art Share L.A., 801 E. 4th Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90013 This seven-part class series will critically examine four of the main socialist feminist theories of gender oppression: Social Reproduction, Alienation,...
read moreSyrian Socialist Feminist Speaks at Los Angeles Left Coast Conference
There appears to be an orientalist disposition by Western society towards progressive movements in the Middle East. . . There is the assumption that aims for democracy in the Middle East by Middle Easterners, and even more so by Middle Eastern women are overly...
read moreWomen are at the forefront of challenging extremism in Idlib, Syria
The existence of extremist militant groups in Idlib province is the justification given by the regime and its Russian ally for continuing aerial assault. Yet these airstrikes, which usually target residential areas and vital civilian infrastructure, and which maim and...
read moreSolidarity with Iranian Women Political Prisoners and Women Indicted for Opposing the Compulsory Hijab or for other Social Justice Activities
Below, the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists is providing short biographies of several of the most well-known feminist political prisoners, in order to heighten awareness of the important role of women in the current protest movement in Iran and to promote...
read moreMigrant Women Fighting for Reproductive Rights
Editors’ Note: The article below has been submitted to the Alliance by MERJ, an organization of migrant and ethnic minority women who fight for women’s reproductive rights and wish to reach out to more Middle Eastern and North African women. May 14, 2018 We are...
read moreHow I Became a Feminist: A Brazilian Labor Leader Speaks to Iranian Women
Editors’ Note: Helena Silvestre is the National Coordinator of the Luta Popular Movement in Brazil and one of the signatories of a recent statement by a group of international socialist feminists in solidarity with Iranian women(see link below). She was inspired to...
read moreInterview with a Turkish Socialist Feminist
Despite the repressive and authoritarian government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, on International Women's Day, March 8, 2018, tens of thousands of women courageously marched in Istanbul to oppose patriarchy and violence against women. Below, we reprint an ...
read moreFree Leila Hosseinzadeh and Other Iranian Students Who Are on Trial for Demanding Democratic Rights
It was the leftist students at Tehran University who stood in solidarity with the nationwide protests and chanted “Reformist or principalist, this story has come to an end!”, a powerful slogan that challenged party-centric establishment politics and immediately became...
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