Articles

Ny Tid: 17.01.2013 – Av NOUSHIN AHMADI KHORASANI
Teheran, Iran. Siden den iranske konstitusjonsrevolusjonen i 1906 har kvinnenes hijab vært et av de største politiske utfordringene i landet. I Irans moderne historie har «endringen i kvinnenes klesdrakt» vært en viktig sak mellom ulike politiske retninger. Vi ser for eksempel at for den første sjahen i Pahlavi-dynastiet i 1935, Reza Shah (1878-1944), og vestlig orienterte intellektuelle, sto forbudet mot hijab i 1930-Ã¥rene som en sentral (...)

FeministSchool: Malala’s black curls on white bandages covering wounds imposed by Talibans’ bullets are beautiful.
No! Malala’s black curls are even more beautiful when they show on white bandages covering wounds imposed by Talibans’ bullets.
News was read. Pictures quickly disappear from the front page and new information arrives.
Nasrin Sotoudeh’s frail body began a new hunger strike to get in person visits with her children and her husband; her body will weaken further.
No! Nasrin (...)

FeministSchool: The following article is written by Basma Abdelaziz. She is Egyptian psychiatrist and writer:
Historical overview
Although the old Egyptian civilization, it seemed that women enjoyed somehow gender equality, Egypt has been ruled at different stage be a several queens: Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, Cleopatra and others, women were not only queens but also gods; Isis and Maet the god of justice.
Ordinary women had the same tights as men as regarding different aspects of life: (...)

Feministschool: The Egyptian uprising that began on the 25th of January 2011 has gone through several important stages. The 18-day revolutionary moment led to the resignation of then-President Hosni Mubarak and the temporary shifting of powers to the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF). Since then, there have been many notable incidents that have demonstrated the reality of an on-going process of revolution rather than a short, finite event. The periodic clashes with the military and (...)

Anna Vanzan, University of Milano,Italy
Pakistan Journal of Women’s Studies: Alam-e-Niswan, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2012, pp.1-10, ISSN: 1024-1256
Abstract This paper, drawing upon discussions and dialogues with Muslim women, examines the concept and meanings of ‘feminism’ and ‘Islamic feminism’. These Muslim women, including some recent Western women converts, not only reinterpret the holy texts by applying new hermeneutics to them and claim their right to use the veil in a public space but they also (...)

Feminist School:It was in November 2011 when I called Mehraveh on her birthday. What I wanted to ask was if she has found a chance to talk to her mother in private and have a conversation about the matters that girls entering their adolescence crave to talk about, but instead I told her if she needs some vitamins, she should let me know. A few times in the course of our short conversations I had an urge to tell her that once in a night filled with solitude and strange feeling of crossing a (...)

Kommentar, Uten grenser-spalten 20.01.2012
Kvinnebevegelsen utfordrer Iranske kvinner utfordrer institusjonene hvor religion og politikk er sammenvevd. Vi forandrer på våre «krav om likestilling».
19.01.2012 17:45 – Av Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, Teheran Iran
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani: Forfatter og utgiver bosatt i Teheran. Kjent aktivist i kvinnebevegelsen og arrestert flere ganger. Noushin skriver eksklusivt for Ny Tid.
nytid: Teheran, Iran. Debatten om islam, kvinnerettigheter og sekularisme (...)

Feminist School: The following story is written by Mina Siegel on US Tehran Embassy Occupation Anniversary.
My brother dropped me off in front of the American embassy in upscale Takht-e-Jamshid Avenue and told me he would see me at one o’clock across the street in Hotel America’s restaurant for lunch. I walked to the closed gate of the embassy and asked the young Marine behind the gate where I should go to renew my visa. He smiled and turned his head to his right side and pointed to the (...)

Feminist School :The following poem is written by Mansoureh Shojaee and Kirsten Barfield which describes the autumn of Bloomsbury:
We are both in the heart of Bloomsbury
On the cold stones,
Under old trees,
In front of Virginia’s windows…
We are both in the heart of Bloomsbury
Far from our motherland
Near to the birthplace of our literature
In front of Virginia’s windows….
Here, in the heart of Bloomsbury
Autumn is coming
Through the colour of leaves
Through the colour of trees (...)

Feministschool: Seymour Hersh was on the Bryan Lehrer show. Making my coffee, I tried to block myself from hearing what I did not want to hear. I knew what to expect: They will bomb Iran. Not a big one. Just a cute mini one, a mini nuke! And they will drop it just on the nuclear facility. Ah, they will be smart, too. Smarter than those they dropped on Iraq and killed some 200,000 people. Ah, and safe, too! Yes, that was the problem. Iraq’s bombs were not cute and were not safe, just smart, (...)