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Life as a female artist in Saudi Arabia: An interview with Light Studio


Posted by Shereen Malherbe on 02 Jun 2016 / 0 Comments
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At the recent three-day Film & Comic Convention in Dubai, I was struck by the number of young, female collective art groups from the Gulf region. One example of such a collective, Light Studio, has members who travel from Saudi Arabia to attend conventions such as this in order to sell and promote the work […]

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The “Problem” of Spinsterhood in the Gulf


Posted by samya on 17 Jul 2012 / 0 Comments
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Last month, one of my close friends in Dubai got engaged. She is 35, an accountant, and her fiancé is a doctor. I still remember how her mother used to worry about her not getting married, to the extent that she kept wondering what was going to happen to her daughter after she (the mother) […]

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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Women’s Rights in Kuwait


Posted by malika on 26 Oct 2009 / 0 Comments
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Two constitutional court cases in Kuwait raise questions of a paradigm shift in women’s rights.

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Another New MMW Contributor


Posted by malika on 20 Aug 2009 / 0 Comments
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Salam MMW readers! My name is Malika and I’m an American journalist who recently moved to the Gulf (Persian to some, Arabian to others). It’s an incredibly interesting time to be living in a region that’s still trying to determine what kind of place it wants to be. In the meantime, there are lots of […]

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Sally Quinn Peddles Offensive Stereotypes About Middle-Eastern Women On MSNBC


Posted by fatemeh on 26 Feb 2009 / 0 Comments
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This was originally written by Megan and published on Jezebel. Sally Quinn just got back from a Brookings Institute conference in Doha and, judging by her appearance on MSNBC talking about the status of women in the Middle East, she didn’t apparently learn much. Quinn peddles so many offensive stereotypes about Middle Eastern countries, the […]

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