Yasmin Ali In one episode of CSI Miami, the group of skilled detectives have to deal with a crime at a neighborhood under ‘planned’ gentrification. The government was evicting inhabitants from their homes, paying half the property price and selling it to a development company to build a hotel. The law-respecting squad then finds itself [...]
One argumentative fallacy I remember from the Introduction to Logic class I took 10 years ago was called: “Ad hominem” which means “To the man.” It is a false, incorrect way of arguing that we use very commonly when we go after the person presenting an argument in an attempt to discredit them using irrelevant [...]
by Sonya Knox Let’s say you were raised in Lebanon in a pretty traditional family – even though your father worked in the Gulf for a while and you have a cousin who studies in Paris and comes home wearing unusual, artistic, clothing – but your mom has pretty much done what’s expected and what’s [...]
Rania Ig. My coworker is a sexist guy. He thinks that women can’t drive because they can’t focus. “It’s in their genes” he explained to me. He later told me about his “scientific” theory that explains what it is in women’s vision that doesn’t allow them to focus on the road ahead. He also said [...]
by Lina Myritz International solidarity is crucial because the plight of Gaza’s 1.5 million impoverished and isolated inhabitants is not a domestic problem, not a natural disaster, not a mistake. It is the perfectly logical consequence of generations of ugly craftsmanship on the part of foreign diplomats, politicians and businessmen – all profiteering from the [...]
As much as the talk was refreshing to the ears and jolting to the mind, it remains vital that Suha Bshara should consider contributing from a gender perspective, so she sets the example we look for in our Arab heroines.
Why is it more complicated to keep her original family records unchanged? Why is it more confusing if the child was registered in either or both his/her parents’ name? Why is it more difficult to give the child either or both of his/her parents’ nationalities?
Why would Rovina be so animalistic to an extent that she stabs someone to death? There are 2 options. Either she is a sick human being (which is fair enough, is a probability and happens). Then the question would be how come there was someone who is so sick minded in this family’s house and they never took notice? Either she was a perfectly sane woman from Philipines who came all the way from Manila to Ain Saade to earn a better living and was faced with some factors which have led her to go totally insane outrageously ending the life of another human being.
C.Partamian Writing about language and its relevance to our work as feminists, the first thing that crossed my mind was my inability to express most of my thoughts regarding gender in my own language; furthermore, when, a deliberate effort was made to translate our texts to “Fus7a,” I felt that the language became a barrier [...]
