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Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring

Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad

Abstract

Images of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a provocative group of scholars, activists, and artists to highlight the first-hand experiences of these remarkable women. In this relevant and timely volume, Stephan and Charrad paint a picture of women’s political resistance in sixteen countries before, during, and since the Arab Spring protests, which first began in 2011. Contributo ... More

Keywords: Arab Spring, Arab women’s activism, artists, marginalized voices, activists, protests

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2020 Print ISBN-13: 9781479846641
Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: January 2021 DOI:10.18574/nyu/9781479846641.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Rita Stephan, editor
North Carolina State University

Mounira M. Charrad, editor
University of Texas, Austin

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Foreword

Introduction

Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad

Part I What They Fight For

1 Barefoot Feminist Classes

Rula Quawas

2 The Labor Strikes That Catalyzed the Revolution in Egypt

Nadine Naber

3 From a Smear Campaign to the Kuwaiti Parliament

Aseel Alawadhi, Translated by Samyah Alfoory

4 Palestinian Queerness and the Orientalist Paradigm

Amal Amireh

5 “With All My Force …”

Lina Abirafeh and Ghida Anani

6 “Ne Touche Pas Mes Enfants!”

Ginger Feather

7 Two Nonviolence Campaigns Initiated by Women in Syria

Mohja Kahf

8 Refusing the Backseat

Aminah Ali Kandar

Part II What They Believe

9 “Women Are Complete, Not Complements”

Mounira M. Charrad and Amina Zarrugh

10 A Patriotic Christian Woman in the Syrian Parliament

Maria Saadeh, Translated by Samyah Alfoory

11 Iraqi Women’s Agency

Nadje Al-Ali

12 Hidden Voices, Hidden Agendas

Sana Sayed

13 The Egyptian Revolution and the Feminist Divide

Samaa Gamie

14 Algerian Feminists Navigate Authoritarianism

Maro Youssef

15 Failing the Masses in Syria

Asaad Alsaleh

16 Time to Seize the Opportunity

Fatma Osman Ibnouf

Part III How They Express Agency

17 Long before the Arab Spring

Rita Stephan

18 Aliaa Elmahdy, Nude Protest, & Transnational Feminist Body Politics

Karina Eileraas Karakuş

19 Sensing Queer Activism in Beirut

Nisrine Chaer

20 On the Contrary

Andy Young

21 Half Syrian Sufi Blogger

Michela Cerruti

22 The Light in Her Eyes

Nurulsyahirah Taha

23 Writing Lebanese Feminist History

Nicole Khoury

24 Um Sahar, the Adeni Woman Leader in al-Hirak Southern Independence Movement in Yemen

Kevin A. Davis

Part IV How They Use Space to Mobilize

25 Marching with Revolutionary Women in Egypt

Margot Badran

26 Memories of Martyrs

Amina Zarrugh

27 Mapping the Egyptian Women’s Anti–Sexual Harassment Campaigns

Theresa Hunt

28 A Village Rises in the First Intifada

Manal A. Jamal

29 Revolutionary Graffiti and Cairene Women

Soumia Bardhan and Karen A. Foss

30 Celebrating Women’s Day in Baghdad, the City of Men

Zahra Ali

31 Waiting for the Revolution

Lorenzo Kamel and Maha Ezzat Elkholy

32 New Media/New Feminism(s)

Nelia Hyndman-Rizk

Part V How They Organize

33 Genesis of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Fez, Morocco

Fatima Sadiqi

34 My Revolution!

Dina Wahba

35 Women’s Political Participation in Bahrain

Marwa Shalaby and Ariana Marnicio

36 Strategies of Nonviolent Resistance

Manal al-Natour

37 Driving Campaigns

Namie Tsujigami

38 Reclaiming Space(s)

Emanuela Buscemi

39 “The Factory Of The Revolution”

Layla Saleh

40 Arab American Women and the Arab Spring

Emily Regan Wills

End Matter

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

About the Contributors

Index