Women in struggle
An@rchisme et non-violence 2
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Published on 21 June 2025
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Darayya, a Syrian town in the outskirts of Damascus where renowned peaceful activists such as Ghiath Matar and Yahya Sherbaji were born, stands as a symbol of the Syrian nonviolence movement. Also part of this civil grassroots movement is a group of women known as Darayya´s Free Women, who (…)
Published on 21 June 2025
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The Syrian uprising saw, in parallel to the revolutionary work on the ground, the formation of a constellation of political groupings that vied to become its political representation. Yet, while women were active in the popular movement since its early days, their representation in the political (…)
Published on 21 June 2025
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School teacher Suad Nofal was among the first demonstrators to take to the streets in Raqqa, at the beginning of the uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in 2011. She also took part in the first demonstrations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the jihadist group that (…)
Published on 21 June 2025
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When the women of Mazaya cried “I am no longer a liability, I am an asset” two years ago, it may have seemed like a shout into the void. Amid the howling of war and the restrictions of a conservative community, women’s voices are rarely, if ever heard. Today however, the Mazaya Center with its (…)
Published on 21 June 2025
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Women wearing a niqab, a type of full veil, walk under a billboard erected by the Islamic State (IS) group as part of a campaign in the IS controlled Syrian city of Raqqa on November 1, 2014. Arabic writting on billboard "We shall be triumphant, in spite of the global coalition". AFP (…)