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March 8, 2013 - The Revolution Is Female

As-Safir

The revolution is feminine—every retreat from the civil state strikes women first: Saudi women on the Shura Council who can't attend without a male guardian.

مداخلة ندوة الكرامة

Intervention at the Dignity Symposium

The people want the fall of the regime—but rulers fell, not systems, and whoever won power was the most centralized, most ideological force.

المرأة العربية زمن الردّة

Arab Women in Times of Reaction

As-Safir

Arab women are the scapegoat of Arab defeats—which are male defeats. The backlash is temporal, not cultural, though it invokes both as alibis.

Modern Arab Feminism

Arab women's rights are the first concession to fundamentalism—and since 1929, Nazirah Zayn al-Din's question stands: "Do you want to unfurl your flags over your women's faces as a substitute for the kingdoms you have lost?"

An Intelligent Man’s Guide to Modern Arab Feminism

Al-Shidyaq saw the repression of female instinct as the foundation of male domination—and Nazirah Zayn al-Din asked: "Do you want to unfurl your flags over your women's faces as a substitute kingdom for the kingdoms you have lost?"

Feminizing Politics

Al-Raida

Feminizing politics is not numerical representation but freeing politics from the patriarchy that produces authoritarianism—and the intellectual construction of Arab feminism remains an unfinished project.