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Education and ‘Wasta’: A Personal Experience

I’m 26 years old, graduated few years ago from a private university and have now decided to do my Masters. For a woman who is independent and prefers to pay her own fees at a university, I refuse to take anything, unless I really earn it. My first option for a masters degree was the Lebanese University, known that the Lebanese University is almost free of charge, you only pay your registration and can get a decent degree.

Join the olive harvest campaign 2010

Join the olive harvest campaign 2010

29August 2010

Last night I heard the screaming

Last night I heard the screaming

Loud voices behind the wall

Another sleepless night for me

Women and Self Censorship: A Conversation*.

 

… So I have a question to ask you all about women, writing and self censorship. Why do women censor themselves? Why is our relationship to writing steeped in holding back?

“Does part of it have to do with being diplomatic and being brought up to please everyone? To not be angry or forthright?”

Open Editorial

At the Palestinian Fairies Project we show the Palestinian Women’s experience for what we believe it to be: a tapestry of thoughts, feelings, memories and day-to-day realities that extend in various directions both in space and time. There are several principles that support our weaving together of the project. The first is our commitment to narrative as an essential function of the liberation struggle.

A Feminist Encounter: Sabreena Da Witch

It had been long since I had connected with where I come from, when I came across a very special feminist encounter…

Mirage

cheek to cheek

in the moist cavity

of another sacrilege

profane twins close

My Feminist School: A Life

The day I was born, my feminist future was determined. I was brought up to become a woman, and while everything around me conspired to teach me how to be one, I became a feminist instead.

 

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