Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Middle East'
A Family Home Torn Apart in Syrian Government Shelling: Home is Where the Heart Is
by Aloosh Devrim -Syria- Araa, a 37-year-old mother, dashes through the house, hysterically inspecting one room after the other. She is shivering in panic. She tries to collect as much as she can from the shattered household items. Here and...
In New Egypt, Women Fear the Return of Legal Female Genital Mutilation
by Manar Ammar -Egypt- “I was weeping and called on my mother for help, but the worst shock of all was when I looked around and found her standing by my side. It was her, yes. I could not be...
In Syria, the Worst Seems Yet to Come
by Aloosh Devrim -Syria- Farewells are generally emotional but not as great as we experienced this evening. It had not been a social visit with family friends. The family of four, including two handsome boys, had escaped the military witch-hunt...
New Egypt Inherits Old Egypt’s Sexual Violence
by Manar Ammar -Egypt- The sexual assault on CBS news correspondent Lara Logan at the hands of 200 Egyptian men in Tahrir Square the night former president Hosni Mubarak resigned came as no surprise to any woman who has been...
Condoms in Bahrain: Sex Workers’ Only Protection Against HIV/AIDS
by Suad Hamada -Bahrain- Savatri used a condom for the first time in her life when she was forced into prostitution a few months ago. Fortunately, the 34-year-old Indian woman was instructed by the managers of the brothel to insist...
The Hard Way Out: Divorce by Khula
by Suad Hamada - Bahrain - Fadhila is only allowed to go to the toilet after asking permission from her husband, she also puts up with his frequent demands for sex - even when she’s menstruating – but neither is...
Another 5 years of Karzai: An Afghan-American Perspective from Kabul
by Wazhmah Osman - Afghanistan/USA - I was born in Kabul, Afghanistan during the good years, in the early seventies. Among my fondest memories is walking to and from school holding the hand of my stylish mother who was then...
Transsexuals in the Middle East Await the Wave of Change
by Suad Hamada - Bahrain - Hell is what most Arabs think of when the word “transsexual” comes into any conversation since many mistake it with homosexuality, which is a sin in Islam. Most transsexuals prefer to remain anonymous since...
This Way Up: A Meditation on Growing Old Along the Israeli/Palestinian Border
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Growing old in a nursing home is rarely an enviable fate. For the Palestinian Christian residents of the Catholic–run Our Lady of Sorrows nursing home, old age is particularly disheartening. Located in East Jerusalem,...
Bahrain Offers Women No Protection from Spousal Rape
by Suad Hamada - Bahrain - Getting a divorce and custody of one’s children is very difficult in Bahrain, even in cases where a husband sexually attacks his wife. The issue was exposed to the public last year, when an...
Dependent on Desalinisation, Bahrain Faces Water Conflicts
by Suad Hamada - Bahrain - Adhari was at one time a legendary site that attracted many tourists to the tiny desert island of Bahrain. Named for a beautiful girl whose tears flowed endlessly because she could not marry her...
Lemon Tree: The Struggle of One Woman Caught in the Middle of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
by Jessica Mosby - USA - United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made nineteen trips to the Middle East in the last two years in hopes of securing a regional peace accord. But as the Bush administration comes...
Arabs Fear Global Financial Crisis Despite Official Assurances
by Suad Hamada - Bahrain - “Arab and Gulf Banks will be completely safe from the global financial crisis.” That is what many Arab officials are announcing these days, but ordinary people are not reassured and fail to understand how...
Documenting the Surge: US Soldier's Films Expose the Realities of the Iraq Occupation
by Jennifer Fenton - USA - "We have an entire generation of people in their twenties and thirties who have never gone through a war…the media and government have gotten so good at the creation of messages, people don't know...
Even Oil Can’t Put Food on the Table
by Suad Hamada - Bahrain - They live in the richest states in the world but cannot afford to buy essential commodities because their countries were busy promoting oil related investments, rather than securing profitable food and agriculture industry. •...
Madcap Adventures and Serious Cultural Discussions: Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Revealing the ending of a film is downright mean, but it’s obvious that Oscar-nominated director Morgan Spurlock does not find Osama Bin Laden in his latest documentary film Where in the World is Osama...
According to Harold Bloom, “What we are seeing is…the fall of America”
by Eva Sohlman - Sweden - Harold Bloom, Yale literature professor and cultural critic, is one of America’s most prominent and provocative intellectuals. Unabashedly, he has always spoken up for what he calls “the fight for truth and beauty” making...
The Beauty Academy of Kabul
by Jessica Mosby - USA - When thinking of Afghanistan, it is difficult not to be overwhelmed by despair. Violence claimed over 6,000 lives in 2007 alone. The quality of life for women continues to decline as a result of...
Postcards From Tora Bora: Looking for the Afghanistan of Yesterday in the Ruins of Today
by Jessica Mosby USA When you think of Afghanistan, smiling women in shift dresses attending college is not the first image that comes to mind. Decades of violence has devastated the country, leaving little more than bomb craters, crumbling buildings,...
The Role and Influence of the US President in Germany
by Vera von Kreutzbruck Germany The next president of the United States of America will undoubtedly play a major role in the international arena – as all US presidents have in past decades. But the important question is how much...
Rachel Corrie Sparks Controversy
by Sarah Wyatt USA In 2003, Palestinian activists mourned the passing of an American, a woman whose brilliance returns to life in My Name is Rachel Corrie. The production is based on the writings of Rachel Corrie, the 23 year-old...
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