Digital storytelling: A tool for healing and restoring dignity for survivors of violence
Read Time: 5 minutesIn a world still plagued by gender-based violence, the voices of women survivors often remain muted or oppressed. The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign forms a global framework for raising awareness, highlighting and empowering women’s voices, and promoting strategies to counter violence. Narrative storytelling refers to the way people use stories to […]
Like The Phoenix rising from the ashes: Domestic violence survivors, heroines of real legends
Read Time: 14 minutesOnce upon every time, there are hushed voices, burdened hearts, and unfairly condemned souls that all have no desire to feel joy or live on. They convinced her that: “the shadow of a man is better than the shadow of a wall” and that “having a man is a mercy even if he were blackened […]
Women’s Roles between the Home’s Anvil and Work’s Hammer
Read Time: 4 minutesMany questions come to mind when we hear the words “Men & Women”: Are both equally demanded to do home chores or parenting? Do both get equal pay? Culture and tradition impose roles on women who are expected to behave in line with these roles. What is a role, then? According to advanced socio-cultural theories, […]
Gender is not sex! And gender is not just for women!
Read Time: 6 minutes“Gender is not sex! And gender is not just for women!” With this phrase, a Syrian feminist activist who specialized in gender issues started her speech by clarifying the social and economic consequences and legal aspects of gender, especially in the work environment. This introduction opens the door to the most controversial discussions in Syrian […]