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The Swedish Experience 13 Apr 2013 | 06:57 am
The Swedish VAW act Besides being third best in countries’ list and the home of Abba, Sweden has created a best practice model for combating violence against women (VAW). Earlier this year, a genero...
Spring Blossoms 4 Apr 2013 | 06:14 pm
Published in “Women after the Arab awakening”, a Wilson’s center Winter publication 2012, P.8: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/women_after_the_arab_awakening_0.pdf Filed under: Opinion...
My Contribution for International Women’s Day 12 Mar 2013 | 08:02 pm
Saudi women have been a common denominator in most socio-political equations. Decades of institutionalized guardianship system and gender segregation have rendered women vulnerable with limited auton...
A legacy to remember 21 Jun 2012 | 02:04 pm
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - For many people in Saudi Arabia, Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz was the symbol of iron-fisted national security. His policies showed a loyal and fierce commitment to the protection ...
On the lashing sentence of a Saudi woman driver “The Guardian piece” 30 Sep 2011 | 01:38 pm
This is the original piece I’ve sent to the Guardian before publishing, the link to the published article is at the end In a sudden turn of events, Shaimaa Justaneyah, one of the female drivers who c...
Go Saudi women:) 7 Sep 2011 | 10:51 am
Filed under: Opinions & Thoughts
Saudi political prisoners long for justice 4 Aug 2011 | 04:42 am
For years, the plight of prisoners of conscience (POC) in Saudi Arabia has been escalating. In the absence of balances and checks, it is not surprising that the legal system fails repeatedly in delive...
Your highness: If you put your kohl on one day, remember us…! 13 Jul 2011 | 02:22 pm
This is a translated letter from the mother of the prisoner “Fahad Al-Saeed” to his royal highness, The Prince… I wondered once about the meaning of a homeland, about its mercy, its compassion for it...
Saudi women drivers take the wheel on June 17 17 Jun 2011 | 03:59 pm
A simple two-line email - sent to me at the beginning of May from a mysterious account named ”W2Drive” – was all it took to put Manal Al-Sharif and I on the same path. A group of Saudi women were now ...
The women in Black 14 May 2011 | 10:51 am
When I was a little girl I was inspired by a stranger, an anonymous woman who showed up once in Gazzaz shop in Jeddah. My mother used to shop frequently there and to take us along, that young woman w...
