Direkt zum Inhalt springen

Hauptnavigation

  • Politics
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Topics
  • Deutsch
  • English
  • عربي

Gender

All topics
  • Two women are standing in a house lounge, looking into the shadow.
    "Fighting the Flow" by Algerian author Saïd Khatibi

    The weight of colonial memory

    Saïd Khatibi's "Fighting the Flow" explores French colonialism's violent legacy in Algerian society after the War of Liberation. The novel poses the question: can individuals liberate themselves from their past?

  • A family walks through a market
    Reform of the Moroccan family code

    A struggle over Quranic principles

    Feminists in Morocco are eagerly awaiting a planned reform of the family code. Experts and the public have been consulted, but the king and the commission have yet to reveal the proposed amendments.

  • Iranian Kurdish singer Hani Mojtahedi
    Kurdish singer Hani Mojtahedi

    Myths re-imagined

    Kurdish singer Hani Mojtahedi and German electro legend Andi Toma of Mouse On Mars have collaborated on an album that also pays homage to Mojtahedi’s grandfather, a Sufi master

  • Still from the film "My Favourite Cake" with Lily Farhadpour, Esmail Mehrabi
    Cinema in Iran

    Unveiled women conquer the silver screen

    More and more Iranian films are breaking taboos – the results are being met with amazement both in and outside Iran. "My Favourite Cake", which premiered at the Berlinale in February, is just the latest example

  • Publishers and editors Iclal Ayse Kucukkirca and Handan Caglayan
    Women's movements in Turkey

    "We women have learned a lot from each other"

    From the Kurdish women's movement to the labour movement and Muslim feminists: the German anthology "Women's Movements in Turkey" builds a bridge between activism and academia. A conversation with the editors Iclal Ayse Kucukkirca and Handan Caglayan

  • Women sit and stand beneath white umbrellas in the sun at a Women Wage Peace/Women of the Sun event on 4 October 2023
    War in the Middle East

    Women for peace

    Israeli and Palestinian women have joined forces and are calling for a negotiated solution to the Middle East conflict. They say it is the only alternative to the murderous war

  • Headshot of a women (Sedigheh Vasmaghi) wearing glasses and a headscarf
    The Iranian theologian and feminist Sedigheh Vasmaghi

    A revolution in Islamic law

    With her work, Iranian feminist and legal scholar Sedigheh Vasmaghi is putting an end to male dominance in Islamic jurisprudence, striking at the very heart of the Islamic Republic.

  • Headshot of a woman with shoulder-length brown hair (Najat Abed Alsamad)
    Najat Abed Alsamad's "Kein Wasser stillt ihren Durst"

    Searching for life

    Najat Abed Alsamad's award-winning novel, "La Ma'a Yarwiha", has been published in German translation as "Kein Wasser stillt ihren Durst" (No water quenches her thirst). In it, she tells the story of a young Druze woman who roundly rejects the traditional rules imposed on her by her parents and relatives and begins a long fight for her freedom

  • Young women have been defying the Iranian regime's crackdown
    Iranian protest literature

    Ehtesham-Zadeh and the inner revolution

    "Zan", Suzi Ehtesham-Zadeh's short story collection, tells of Iranian women during the uprising in Iran, and of women in exile grappling in diverse ways with their identity and roots. A book about women, life and freedom that has arrived at exactly the right moment

  • Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi
    Death sentence for Rapper Toomaj

    Tehran's legitimacy crisis

    The rapper Toomaj Salehi has been sentenced to death in Iran. His case shows how the regime is fighting to maintain its power, and against whom

  • Makeshift school in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip
    Children in Gaza

    School just a distant memory

    Children in the Gaza Strip have not been to school since the start of the war. Israel is systematically destroying the Palestinian education system, UN representatives warn

  •  Supporters of the Popular Mobilisation Forces burn a rainbow flag during a protest in Tahrir Square in Baghdad
    Dangerous Instagram?

    Iraqi LGBTQ+ community loses safe space

    It was always double-edged, but in Iraq, social media was often a comparatively safe place where the local queer community could meet. Recent amendments to Iraqi law are changing all that

Pagination

  • Current page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • …
  • Next page

Footer

  • About Us
  • Imprint
  • Privacy Policy
  • Declaration of Accessibility