Reading List: What’s Feminism Got to Do With it? Imperialism and Sexual Violence in Palestine

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine

n Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine, Nada Elia argues that the Palestinian struggle is…

Author: Nada Elia

English

Palestine and Feminist Liberation: A Liberatory Feminism

How can we explain that Israel, despite its genocidal attacks in Gaza and its violation of international law, remains immune…

Author: Nada Elia

English

Justice is indivisible: Palestine as a feminist issue

The essay, then, will start with an overview of the challenges diaspora Palestinian activists, and our allies, have faced as…

Author: Nada Elia

English

Feminism and Palestinian Liberation Go Hand In Hand

Palestinian women and queers in the homeland are often asked by concerned Westerners how we negotiate the challenges of living…

Author: Nada Elia

English

Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others

This article explores the ethics of the current "War on Terrorism," asking whether anthropology, the discipline devoted to understanding and…

Author: Lila Abu-Lughod

English

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message…

Author: Lila Abu-Lughod

English

Empathy to fight colonial abhorrence and amnesia: global solidarity with and disability justice in Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo as moral imperative

The author argues that current colonial violence (in Palestine, Sudan, and the DRC) is not limited to death, but actively…

Author: Nelly Bassily

English

الحركة النسوية الفلسطينية بعد أوسلو: حصادٌ مرّ في تمكين الذات وفي تحرير الوطن

This article argues that the Palestinian feminist movement was increasingly shaped by NGOization after the signing of the Oslo accords,…

Author: إصلاح جاد

Arabic

إعادة مركزة فلسطين في النظرية النسوية المناهضة للاستعمار

The authors argue that Palestinian struggles have often been marginalized in decolonial feminist discourses, even within those aimed at decolonizing…

Author: نور أبو عصب and نوف ناصر الدين

Arabic

قوم بلا دولة: تشكيل الهوية الفلسطينية والعنف البنيوي في لبنان

This article examines the origins of Palestinian identity in Lebanon, tracing the cultural, political and historical dynamics of the Levant…

Author: نادين ن. صايغ؛ هايدي سارة عفّي

Arabic

التضامن النسوي كفعل مُناهض للاستعمار

This article frames feminist solidarity as an explicitly anti-colonial practice that should go beyond merely symbolic support into collective commitment…

Author: ريم بن رجب

Arabic

التضامن النسوي

The video goes over the history and conceptualization of feminist solidarity, and what it means beyond identity and shallow engagement.…

Author: حكي نسوي

Arabic

GÊNERO E SEXUALIDADE COMO ARMAS DE GUERRA

Analytical and political categories such as sexuality, gender and race have little explanatory value if considered in isolation from broader…

Author: Berenice Bento

Portuguese

Além da propaganda: pinkwashing como violência colonial

alQaws describes itself on its official website as follows: “alQaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society, a civil…

Author: alQaws

Portuguese

Feminismo, Resistência e Islã: um estudo de caso sobre a atuação das mulheres palestinas no Fatah, Hamas, Jihad Islâmica Palestina e Movimento Islâmico de Israel

This work presents, analyzes and discusses, from a postcolonial feminist lens, the role of Palestinian women within the main organizations…

Author: Natália Morari Ochôa; Silvia Ferabolli

Portuguese

Feminismo que não se manifesta quando mulheres em Gaza morrem de fome durante o cerco não é feminismo.

‘This is not a call to action, but a call to participation. A call for a feminism that is not…

Author: Nadine Quomsieh

Portuguese

Des féminités mobilisées et incarcérées en Palestine

This academic article examines how the bodies of Palestinian women are targeted in Israeli prisons. It highlights the use of…

Author: Stéphanie Latte Abdallah

French

Pourquoi la Palestine est une question féministe et anticoloniale

This article denounces "white feminism," which reduces the suffering of Palestinian women to a matter of "rescue" by Western patriarchy,…

Author: Rama Salla Dieng

French

Solidarité féministe avec la Palestine

his text analyzes how a certain brand of feminism confines the Palestinian question to a simplistic dichotomy (savage men vs.…

Author: Jade Almeida

French

Leila Khaled : « Le 7 octobre a prouvé au monde entier l’importance de la lutte »

An interview with Palestinian freedom fighter Leila Khaled in which she reaffirms that resistance is a legitimate response to the…

Author: Leila Khaled, Synne Furnes Bjerkestrand, Bayan Abu Ta'ema

French

¿Qué luchas de mujeres decide ver Occidente? Orientalismo, feminismo e invisibilización en Palestina, Irán y el Sáhara Occidental

In recent years, some women’s struggles in the Global South have been widely celebrated in the media, on social media…

Author: Jaldía Abubakra

Spanish

Por qué el genocidio en Palestina es una cuestión feminista

Carolina Bracco, a political scientist and researcher specialising in Arab and Jewish cultures, examines the reasons behind the silence of…

Author: Carolina Bracco

Spanish

La lucha interseccional de las mujeres palestinas: historia, feminismo y desafíos actuales

Intersectionality has been essential to understanding the struggles of women of colour. Therefore, when analysing Palestinian feminism, it is essential…

Author: Mayra Eltit Fuentes

Spanish

Violencia sexual y reproductiva en Palestina: las mujeres como blanco estratégico del genocidio

Far from being ‘collateral damage’, sexual and reproductive violence against Palestinian women forms part of a long-standing colonial strategy. The…

Author: Carolina Bracco

Spanish

Reading List: What’s Feminism Got to Do With it? Imperialism and Sexual Violence in Palestine

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine

Palestine and Feminist Liberation: A Liberatory Feminism

Justice is indivisible: Palestine as a feminist issue

Feminism and Palestinian Liberation Go Hand In Hand