• Home
  • About MMW
  • MMW Contributors
  • Resources

Libyan women

News

“Woman vs Islamist” – Duelling Protests, Flag Switching and Zero Sum Games


Posted by tasnim on 25 Sep 2012 / 0 Comments
Tweet



The last few weeks in Libya have been tragic, depressing and hopeful by turn.  For months the militia situation in the country had been brewing, with increasing calls for disarmament and unification under a national army on the one hand, and on the other, calls for patience by those making the argument that the armed […]

Read more →

The “Symbolic Step” of Women’s Political Participation in A New Libya


Posted by tasnim on 28 Nov 2011 / 0 Comments
Tweet



Libya’s new interim government, which was announced on November 22, has been tasked with preparing for elections scheduled for next June, when voters will select an assembly to write the new constitution. As expected, given the challenges of rebuilding the country after four decades of dictatorship and nine months of war, the choice of ministers […]

Read more →

The Libyan Woman’s New Libya


Posted by Guest Contributor on 15 Nov 2011 / 0 Comments
Tweet



This piece was written by a Guest Contributor, Summar Shammakhi. The interim Libyan leader, Mustapha Abdul Jalil declared Libya liberated on the 23rd October. The content of his twenty or so minute speech was a tribute to the February 17 revolution. He thanked all the brave men and women, all the martyrs, all the injured […]

Read more →

Libya’s Girl Executioners and Gun-Brandishing Newscasters


Posted by tasnim on 06 Sep 2011 / 0 Comments
Tweet



Nisreen Mansour al Forgani, centre, with fellow Gaddafi female militia members. She is now under armed rebel guard in a Tripoli hospital. Picture: AFP Gender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war, as we see male political and military leaders taking the most visible roles in armed conflicts, promoting the tendency to see the […]

Read more →

The Symbol of Eman al-Obeidi


Posted by tasnim on 04 Apr 2011 / 0 Comments
Tweet



On March 26, Eman al-Obeidi burst into the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli and told reporters that fifteen of Gaddafi’s militiamen had detained her for two days and raped her. She named one of them as the son of a high-ranking official, and pleaded for her friends, who she said were still held captive. After a […]

Read more →

An Interview with Yusra Tekbali on Libya


Posted by yusra on 24 Mar 2011 / 0 Comments
Tweet



MMW Contributor Yusra Tekbali was in Libya during the outbreak of the February 17 Revolution. She was evacuated to Malta, and now speaks to us from The United Arab Emirates, where she is attending Insight Dubai, a conference on Muslim Women’s issues sponsored by Dubai Women’s College. Krista and Azra interview her about her experiences. […]

Read more →

The Woman who Wasn’t There: Aisha Gaddafi in the Press


Posted by yusra on 17 Sep 2009 / 0 Comments
Tweet



With the recent release of the suspected Pan Am 103 bomber, the 40th anniversary of Gaddafi’s coup, and improving relations with the west, Libya’s been in the news a lot lately. Next week,  Colonel Muammar al Gaddafi (Libya’s quirky dictator, known as much for his peculiar fashion sense as his outrageous statements) will make his […]

Read more →

Sexual harassment of Libyan women is holding us back


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 05 Jan 2009 / 0 Comments
Tweet



A recent Reuters article vaguely described sexual harassment in Libya by blaming it on “antiquated male attitudes that decades of gender equality reforms have failed to dislodge.” While it is true that Libyan law sets the foundation for female equality, it was never properly enacted. To say that there have been “decades of gender equality […]

Read more →