Humorous response to disappointing Egyptian elections result
Humorous response to disappointing Egyptian elections result
As only 8 women made it to the seats of the newly elected Egyptian parliament, discouraged voices are heard across the country. One reaction is this commentary cartoon ‘Welcome to the new Egyptian parliaMENt by Ebtisam Barakat at jadiliyya.com
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Qatar is set to play a pioneering role in the development of women’s sport in the Middle East and Africa region, top officials involved with the Doha’s 2020 Olympics bid said yesterday.
Less than three months after Saudi Arabia said it would permit women to participate in the London 2012 Olympic Games, it has reportedly reneged on their agreement, barring women from entering the Games.
Behind concrete walls and out of sight of men, Saudi women wearing shorts and short-sleeve shirts meet three times a week to play soccer in an all-female club in Saudi Arabia's port city of Jeddah. Cheering them on is Jeddah King's United coach and striker Reema Abdullah, who also is leading a campaign in the ultra-conservative Muslim country to allow women to participate in sports and compete internationally.
SOCIALDIFFERENCE-ONLINE is a publication of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference at Columbia University, an advanced study center that promotes innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the role of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in global dynamics of power and inequality. Jadaliyya ezine brings an interview with the editors on Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent special issue, Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama Rao.
A shadow report on Jordan’s implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women showed that there is still a gender gap in the Kingdom because some laws foster gender-based discrimination, according to Senator Amneh Zu’bi.
