4 ChangeAsifa, My Child: a poem by Bardi Raina
Monday, April 16, 2018
Badri Raina. Posted on ZNet on April 14, 2018. Asifa, my child, I wish I was not writing about you But holding you to my chest. Asifa, I…
Gravequake and Death by Stoning – two poems by Ziba Karbassi
Monday, April 9, 2018
Gravequake The song of the nightingale Is not up for sale. Tell your black crows tell Your black crows Caw Caw The song of the nightingale Is not…
Bread, water and roses: The guerrillas of Shengal (Sinjar)
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Marcel Cartier. Posted on The Region on April 4, 2018. Powerful, sobering and heart-wrenching images are once again to be seen from the Yazidi heartland of Shengal, otherwise…
Iran: Prison sentence for Maryam Shariatmadari for taking off her hejab
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Maryam Shariatmadari, one of the women of Enghelab Street, who took off her compulsory hejab as protest on 23rd February 2018, following the weeks of protest across in…
The Women’s Movement in Turkey
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Ecehan Balta and Arielle Concilio. Posted on Left Voice on February 28, 2018. Arielle Concilio of Left Voice spoke with Ecehan Balta of the socialist collective Başlangıç Kolektifi…
Climate & Capitalism Interview with Zafer Ülger: Ecological crisis and capitalism in Turkey today
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Zafar Ugler and Arielle Conclio. Posted on Monthly Review on March 5, 2018. Originally on Left Voice. Zafer Ülger is a member of the Başlangıç socialist collective in…
Turkish War Planes Strike Northern Syria As Assad Continues Bombing South
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Ellen Frances. Posted on Huffington Post on March 17, 2018. BEIRUT, March 17 (Reuters) – Thousands of civilians streamed out of their towns on Saturday to escape battles…
Sara R. Farris, In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism – Book Review
Friday, March 16, 2018
Catherine Rottenberg. Posted on Jadaliyya on February 12, 2018. Farris’ new book In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism illuminates the particular ways in which…
In Spain, Women Launch Nationwide Feminist Strike Protesting “Alliance of Patriarchy & Capitalism”
Saturday, March 10, 2018
Amy Goodman and Maria Carrion Posted on Democracy Now on March 8, 2018. In Spain, women have launched the first nationwide women’s strike in Spain’s history to mark…
Emancipation Comes Through the Rejection of Capitalism: interview
Friday, March 9, 2018
Tithi Bhattacharya and Amy Goodman Posted on Znet on March 9, 2018 From Afghanistan to the Philippines to Mexico to Spain, women across the globe are taking to…
Patterns of civilian and child deaths due to war-related violence in Syria: a comparative analysis from the Violation Documentation Center dataset, 2011–16
Friday, March 2, 2018
Posted on Lancet Global Health volume 6, number 1. Background Since March, 2011, the Syrian civil war has lowered life expectancy by as much as 20 years. We…
Patriarchies East and West
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Judith Whitehead. Posted Monthly Review on February 1, 2018. Sara Farris, ln the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017), 272 pages,…
The Wounds of Afrin, the Promise of Rojava: an Interview with Nazan Üstündağ
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Nazan Üstündağ. Posted LeftEast Februry 14, 2018. LeftEast interviewed sociologist and feminist Nazan Üstündağ on Afrin, Rojava and the social stakes of the resistance to Turkey’s current military…
Hejab, Islamic totalitarianism and the opposition in Iran
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Jaleh Ahmadi. This article was first published in Iran Bulletin-Middle East Forum number 1, 2004. We are posting it in Middleast4Change because of its relevance in the current…
Iran: Observation on the protests of December 2018: Part 2, Prospects and Pitfalls
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Ardeshir Mehrdad. Part 1 of this article discussed what features distinguished the latest wave of protests from all previous ones. In Part 2 we discuss its actual…
How Iran uses a compulsory hijab law to control its citizens – and why they are protesting
Friday, February 9, 2018
Moujan Mirdamadi. Posted on The Conversation February 9, 2018. Protests against Iran’s mandatory hijab law – which requires all women to wear it in public – have sprung…
Global Burden of Disease 2016
Sunday, September 17, 2017
The medical journal Lancet (volume 390, number 10100, Sep 16, 2017, p 1083-1464) has published a series of articles on global health 2016 that shows the changing pattern…
The Saudi Arabian Trillions
Saturday, September 2, 2017
Malise Ruthven. Published on London Review of Books volume 39, no 17, September 7, 2017. It made perfect sense that the first port of call on President Trump’s…
The Revolutionary Imagination: Rosa for Our Times
Friday, July 28, 2017
Mark Harris. Posted on Counterpunch on July 21, 2017. “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”—Rosa Luxemburg It was 98 years ago that the brilliant…
The reproduction crisis and the birth of a new “out of law” proletariat (an interview with Silvia Federici)
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Silvia Federici and Francesca Coin. This post first appeared on Left East on July 10, 2017. Feminist philosopher, political economist, and activist Silvia Federici on the transformation reproductive…
Cholera in Yemen: war, hunger, disease…and heroics
Friday, July 21, 2017
Editorial, Lancet Infectious Diseases, August 2017. The harms done by war are many and complex. Death, injury, and displacement are the most obvious, but infection is also closely…
Proving paternity: A prolonged struggle for thousands of Egyptian mothers
Monday, June 5, 2017
Mai Shams El-Din, Mada. For mothers who choose to file paternity lawsuits, proceedings can take years. “I wrote this post just to say that I will not give…
The Experience of Local Councils in the Syrian Revolution
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Walid Daou Tranlated by Ghassan Makarem Posted on April 4, 2017 on Al Manshur “We are not less that the workers of the Paris Commune… They lasted 70…
To the barricades: Has protesting become too easy?
Friday, May 12, 2017
Isaac Chotiner Slate. Book Review: Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. Interview with author Zenep Tufekc. First posted on Slate May 8, 2017….
Reality and the U.S.-Made Famine in Yemen
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Kathy Kelly. This article was first posted on Counterpunch on March 22, 2017. This week at the Voices for Creative Nonviolence office in Chicago, my colleague Sabia Rigby…
Imperialism in the Twenty First Century: Book Review
Monday, March 13, 2017
Michael Roberts blog. A review of imperialism in the Twenty First century by John Smith, published by Monthly Review Press John Smith’s book is a powerful and searing…
Women: Middle East ranks ‘last’ on gender equality
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
The New Arab. Women in the Middle East have faced patriarchal prejudice and deeply-rooted discrimination in efforts to bridge the gender chasm and improve female participation in public…
Mahalla textile workers call off strike as strike leaders face disciplinary hearings
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Mada Masr, Al Arabiya. Over 2,000 workers from the state-owned Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in Mahalla called off their partial strike on Wednesday. Five of the strike…
Palestinian women in the Occupied Territories: an interview with Laila al-Hamdani
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Libcom.org Interview with Laila al-Hamdani describing the role of women in the Occupied Territories as well as the central role they played during the first intifada. Q. Perhaps…
Our testimony to death
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Doha Hasan, Al-Jumhurya. Somewhere, there are scattered corpses along a road that looks completely destroyed, with blood around orange bags holding still bodies. You see destroyed buildings that…