Women RisingPub Date : 2020-06-09DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479846641.003.0039
Emanuela Buscemi
{"title":"Reclaiming Space(s)","authors":"Emanuela Buscemi","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479846641.003.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479846641.003.0039","url":null,"abstract":"Emanuela Buscemi investigates the role of Kuwaiti women activists in the Arab Spring–inspired Karamat Watan (A Nation’s Dignity) protests. This chapter focuses on how women’s activism transgressed two different arenas: the physical space in the streets and cyberspace. Younger and older women drew upon more than a half-century’s worth of activism to voice their dissent against corruption and complacent reforms. Accordingly, the Arab Spring events acted as catalysts of local political disaffection and social alienation inspiring local protests. The chapter draws on fieldwork conducted in Kuwait between 2013 and 2015, and is based on interviews with women activists.","PeriodicalId":409783,"journal":{"name":"Women Rising","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124911899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women RisingPub Date : 2020-06-09DOI: 10.18574/NYU/9781479846641.003.0021
A. Young
{"title":"On the Contrary","authors":"A. Young","doi":"10.18574/NYU/9781479846641.003.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/NYU/9781479846641.003.0021","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay Andy Young features the artist Bahia Shehab, whose work has been a vital part of the thriving art of graffiti in revolutionary Egypt. Bahia Shehab’s “One Thousand Times No Project” began as a study of representations of the word “no” in Arabic script over the past fourteen hundred years and evolved into spray-painting those negations in stenciled graffiti on the walls of Cairo’s city streets as a form of protest. Revolutionary graffiti by Shehab serve to bridge Egypt’s long and storied history with its contemporary events, break down barriers between class, literacy levels, and gender by depicting work accessible to all, and show the women’s fight for justice as part of the larger struggle.","PeriodicalId":409783,"journal":{"name":"Women Rising","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131269577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women RisingPub Date : 2020-06-09DOI: 10.7765/9781526113672
Lorenzo Kamel, Maha Ezzat Elkholy
{"title":"Waiting for the Revolution","authors":"Lorenzo Kamel, Maha Ezzat Elkholy","doi":"10.7765/9781526113672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526113672","url":null,"abstract":"A common perception of the Egyptian revolution is that women from rural areas played a passive role in the entire process. Lorenzo Kamel and Maha Ezzat Elkholy argue that these impressions are rather a simplistic way of approaching the local reality. By providing a comparative outlook on women in Upper and Lower Egypt, they show that Egypt’s rural women do not represent in any way a homogeneous group, but their growing activism has a common goal: to ignite a cultural and social revolution. In this context, they show that women’s activism and engagement in resistance and reform is not a phenomenon that should be assessed only on the basis of public campaigns, or the presence of women in public places. The “reform process” is taking place first and foremost inside the houses of millions of Egyptian women, including, and perhaps especially, the ones residing in rural Egypt.","PeriodicalId":409783,"journal":{"name":"Women Rising","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129333020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women RisingPub Date : 2020-06-09DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479846641.003.0035
Dina Wahba
{"title":"My Revolution!","authors":"Dina Wahba","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479846641.003.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479846641.003.0035","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers an account of Dina Wahba’s personal experience as someone who participated actively in the 25th January Egyptian revolution and its subsequent events in Tahrir Square. She was inspired by the idea that the “personal is political” to insert a personal story in the heart of the heated political debates. Her account stems from the realization that it is imperative to populate the debates with local voices and to personalize the struggles.","PeriodicalId":409783,"journal":{"name":"Women Rising","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122763672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women RisingPub Date : 2020-06-09DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479846641.003.0018
{"title":"Long before the Arab Spring","authors":"","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479846641.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479846641.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"The Arab Women Solidarity Association United (AWSA United) emerged as an outlet for Arab women in the diaspora to express solidarity and support for women in the Arab world. It pioneered transnational Arab women’s groups that connected Arab women in all six continents. In this chapter, Rita Stephan explores the impact of AWSA United on Arab women activists who, between 1999 and 2011, used cyberfeminism to share their ideological and political marginalization, and how AWSA United helped them foster their collective identity, strengthen their connectivity, and increase their activism.","PeriodicalId":409783,"journal":{"name":"Women Rising","volume":"03 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115845219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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