Stories about Women & Gender from November, 2008
Jamaica: Women in Danger
YardFlex.com reports that “women and girls have been the steady target of unscrupulous men who have been recently wreaking havoc in different areas of Jamaica with their random kidnappings or attempts.”
Armenia: Inlandish
Anush Babajanyan's Photoblog posts photographs of women who stand out from the crowd in Yerevan, the Armenian capital. The blog says that while society treats them as something different, she had only respect for their individuality.
Jamaica: Criminals in Charge?
A Fe Me Page Dis Iyah wants to know if the criminals are running things in Jamaica.
U.S.: Election Commentary from Slovenia
Sleeping With Pengovsky gives his “fifty cents” on “some ironies of the US presidential elections.”
Egypt: Sexual Harassment Victim Stabbed to Death
I received an invitation to join a group named “Dr. Shaimaa Fouad … May you rest in Peace.” I did not know her and I wondered why anyone would invite me to such a group. Little did I know! Dr. Shaimaa Fouad died defending herself, writes Marwa Rakha, who tells us who the victim is.
The Middle East's Generation Facebook
What will the Middle East look like 25 years from now? That was the assignment the World Policy Journal gave Mona El Tahawy for their 25th anniversary edition. Mona decided to have some fun and imagine. This is what she came up with, mixing real people in imaginary scenarios in 2033. Who knows? They might come true!
Egypt: Sexual Harassment Victims, Keep your Mouth Shut!
On November 1, Al Masry Al Youm shocked its readers with an article about two girls who went to the police station to report a sexual harassment incident but instead, they were detained for six hours and harassed by the officers on duty.
Egypt: The Struggle to Wear Hijab on TV
Faith tackled the story published by BCC, about Ghada El-Tawil who recently returned to television, after she was sacked from her job as anchorwoman in the Egyptian National Television six years ago when she began wearing a headscarf or Hijab.
Egypt: Noha makes Egyptians angry!
On October 24, Noha made Egyptians proud when in an unprecedented case, sexual harasser Sherif Gommaa was sentenced to three years behind bars, hard labor, and was also ordered to pay 5,001 Egyptian pounds fine to Noha Roshdy Saleh for groping her in the street. Now she is making them angry. Marwa Rakha tells us why.
Trinidad & Tobago, U.S.A.: Impossible is Nothing
Trinidadian blogger Attillah Springer speaks to students in a disadvantaged area of Port of Spain, encouraging them to “defy the expectations this society has of them…because if a man called Barrack Hussein Obama can have a reasonable shot at being the President of the United States of America then by...
Jamaica: Accidental Shooting
YardFlex.com and A Fe Me Page Dis Iyah blog about the untimely death of a Jamaican schoolgirl who was accidentally shot by her father while he was trying to defend the family from bandits.
North Caucasus: Circassian girls
The Tbilisi Blues pays homage to Circassian girls, apparently among the world's most beautiful women. The blog posts some early photographs of what it calls Moss-haired Girls and says that many were to be found in the harems of Turkish sultans.
Africa: Top 45 Female African Bloggers
Afrigator's list of top 45 female African bloggers: “Ever wondered who the top female bloggers are in Africa, or which women you should be following online? We did, so we compiled the following list. For us compiling this list was an interesting excercise as we didn’t explicity know which blogs...
Jordan: Meet the Foreigners, Arab Music, and Business Ideas
The number of young expatriates coming to Jordan for different purposes, commonly to learn Arabic, has become significant. Walking around Jabal Amman, you can notice them sitting in cafes and restaurants around the area. Jordandays.tv, a web television channel from Jordan came up with a programme for their website called...
Cuba: Abortions
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez meets a young woman who has had four abortions in her twenty-three years: “I was rattled by her illusion of leaving all her problems—housing, love or immigration—in the operating room, and pointed out that they are no longer doing abortions in hospitals. The reason is that...
