topic: women

“We used to go to another neighborhood to get water. Everyone lived with a bucket of water on their heads. We also had no light. The light...

Rafia Zakaria is a Jill of many trades, serving as an attorney, a human rights activist, a columnist, and an author. Her interests are...

As the Islamic State continues its bloodly advance across Syria, Kurdish Iraq and the region more broadly, questions about the decades-old...

This International Women’s Day marked the beginning of a large-scale campaign to eradicate gender inequality and end violence against women...

Gabonese Angèle Rawiri (1954-2010) is recognised as not only the first woman novelist from her nation, but the first novelist per se. Her...

Building on the work of her previous books Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence (2004), and Frames of War: When is Life...

It is impossible to encapsulate the life and work of someone as prolific and influential as beloved Algerian novelist Assia Djebar. Her...

A couple of nights ago, I tweeted an article —which inspired a blog post —about the dramatic rise in murders reported by the Salvadoran...