CNN Middle East Senior Reporter, Octavia Nasr, was inpired by @nasawiya’s live tweets from the conference to dedicate a show to “Arab feminism.” However, the report mistakenly cited the conference as organized by the Feminist Collective – which we clearly stated it was not. The conference is organized by Bahithat in collaboration with other organizations [...]

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Arab women are more likely to win political rights than secure personal and civil status rights, said participants at an international conference on Arab feminism, held at the American University of Beirut Oct 4-7, 2009.
Attracting a strong turn-out that was overwhelmingly female, the conference was organized by the Lebanese Association of Women [...]

Feminists from the Arab World: Talking to Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi, Omaira Abou-Bakr and Hoda al-Saadi

Women’s issues and feminist movements are discussed by scholar-activists from Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Hayeon Lee , October 11, 2009

The first of its kind, a conference entitled, “Arab Feminisms: A Critical Perspective” – organized by the Lebanese Association of Women Researchers, [...]

By Dalila Mahdawi
Daily Star staff
Thursday, October 08, 2009
BEIRUT: Academics, activists and researchers gathered at the American University of Beirut (AUB) Wednesday for the third and last day of a major conference to discuss Arab feminisms. The conference, “Arab Feminisms: A Critical Perspective,” was organized by the Lebanese Association of Women Researchers (also known as [...]

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علا التصفيق وانطلقت «هيصة» حماسية عندما اختتمت الباحثة الشابة، زينة زعتري، ورقتها تحت عنوان «نهضة نسوية عربية: إمكانيات وضرورات». لم يكن صعباً فهم السبب، لكن الهمس، الذي دار بين الحاضرات والمشاركات في مؤتمر «النسوية العربية: رؤية نقدية»، أكد البديهي المُضمَر. فقد بدت زعتري «جريئة» ومتقدّمة [...]

BEIRUT: A groundbreaking three-day conference on Arab feminisms got under way at The American University of Beirut (AUB) on Monday, with dozens of academics discussing the contemporary schools of feminism in the region.