I have never felt as alienated to a man’s body as in the oil wrestling arena.

IraQueer – a new online home for the LGBTQ+ community of Iraq and Kurdistan

Mashallah News spoke to Alex Shams about the lesser-known positive effect of the 1979 Iranian revolution on women’s education and university enrolment.

“Palestine: Women First” is a photography project on the key role of young Palestinian women in their nation’s struggle. Mashallah News got a chance to speak to the photographer, Mati Milstein, who himself is both Israeli and male, and to one of the activists, Diana.

Turkish cartoonist Ramize Erer has been drawing attention for 30 years to, among other issues, the relationship between men and women in Turkish society.

La caricaturiste Ramize Erer dessine depuis 30 ans. Elle est connue pour son regard libre et acerbe sur les relations homme-femme en Turquie.

I wake up every morning looking forward to getting harassed in Cairo. A day without being whistled at like cattle is a day unlived in this city. Right?

.باصحى كل يوم الصبح وأنا مستنية بفرغ الصبر إن حد يتحرش بي في شوارع القاهرة. التحرش في القاهرة مصر

Samar Hazboun about filming and documenting violence against women and a shelter house in Palestine

It was fall when the first Arab Spring painfully blossomed. It was fall when the first Arab Spring painfully blossomed. This was in Algeria, in October 1988, and ended with bloodshed a few years later. The October Riots was probably the most significant event since the country’s independence in 1962. To this day, no political […]