Duma (Dolls) is an extremely powerful documentary by Abeer Zeibak Haddad. It is regarded as the first ever film to focus on and shed light to violence against and sexual assault of women in Palestine.

Haddad's first attempt to expose this issue is a puppet theatre show she created...

I have recently watched the Klezmatics: On Holy Groundye documentary once again with joy and although I generally do not write on music and film, I was so moved by it I wanted to write a blog piece. As Joshua Nelson says in the film, the Klezmatics' music is 'the...

Whenever I try to write an academic piece on feminism in Turkey or the women of Turkey I remember the image of the women on top of the tractors, with their hand-woven beautiful headscarves, baggy trousers, and the cracks in their hands for having worked hours and sometimes days in...

Women, Islam and Mediahttp://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/17/uea-introduces-women-islam-media-first-in-uk_n_1209995.html?ref=uk-universities, UEA's new final year degree module, has received a lot of media attention and for this reason I decided to write this blog and to provide a summary of what has been said and done over the last few weeks. Some may read this...

Forced 'virginity tests' on female detainees were ruled illegal in Egypt after Samira Ibrahim's fight for justice ended with success at a court in Cairo. According to news reports Ibrahim, who was humiliated and tortured by the military, faced death threats for raising the issue, celebrated justice as she stated:...

The BBC has premiered an 'explosive' EastEnders Christmas trailer online which promises fire, explosions and fights between life and death for Albert Square residents. Nina Wadia, who plays Zainab, has said that the Christmas script "shocked the life out of her".

Over the last year one of the most...