Sudan – women at the heart of mobilizations
Women have played a key role in the protests in Sudan since December 2018, and continue to do so since the fall of the dictator al-Bashir in April 2019. The level of women’s participation and their role in organizing daily struggles is unprecedented in the country’s...
The Me Too Movement in the Middle East
by Lara al-Kateb and Omar Abbas with contributions from Selin Cagatay, Frieda Afary, Fatemeh Masjedi and socialist feminists inside Iran The Me Too movement against sexual assault and rape has animated women throughout the world. In the Middle East too, despite...
Interview with Ali Adubisi, Director of the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights,
Below is an interview with Ali Adubisi, Director of the European Saudi Organization for Human Rights, which is currently working on defending Israa al-Ghomgham. Al-Ghomgham has been in pretrial detention in Saudi Arabia for the past three years and might be...
Class Series on What is Socialist Feminism? From Analyzing Oppression to Theorizing Liberation and Organizing
Starting Saturday November 17, 2018, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Art Share L.A., 801 E. 4th Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90013 This seven-part class series will critically examine four of the main socialist feminist theories of gender oppression: Social Reproduction, Alienation,...
Syrian Socialist Feminist Speaks at Los Angeles Left Coast Conference
There appears to be an orientalist disposition by Western society towards progressive movements in the Middle East. . . There is the assumption that aims for democracy in the Middle East by Middle Easterners, and even more so by Middle Eastern women are overly...
Women are at the forefront of challenging extremism in Idlib, Syria
The existence of extremist militant groups in Idlib province is the justification given by the regime and its Russian ally for continuing aerial assault. Yet these airstrikes, which usually target residential areas and vital civilian infrastructure, and which maim and...
Solidarity with Iranian Women Political Prisoners and Women Indicted for Opposing the Compulsory Hijab or for other Social Justice Activities
Below, the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists is providing short biographies of several of the most well-known feminist political prisoners, in order to heighten awareness of the important role of women in the current protest movement in Iran and to promote...
Migrant Women Fighting for Reproductive Rights
Editors’ Note: The article below has been submitted to the Alliance by MERJ, an organization of migrant and ethnic minority women who fight for women’s reproductive rights and wish to reach out to more Middle Eastern and North African women. May 14, 2018 We are...
How I Became a Feminist: A Brazilian Labor Leader Speaks to Iranian Women
Editors’ Note: Helena Silvestre is the National Coordinator of the Luta Popular Movement in Brazil and one of the signatories of a recent statement by a group of international socialist feminists in solidarity with Iranian women(see link below). She was inspired to...