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Civil society loses—and China and Russia fill the vacuum.

Award-winning Egyptian women rights defender Azza Soliman says Berlin's decision highlights 'double standards'

More than 40 dresses and embroidered objects from Jordan and the West Bank, along with filmed interviews, trace the evolution of this traditional craft during sweeping political and social changes in the region

The 119-page report, “Trapped: How Male Guardianship Policies Restrict Women’s Travel and Mobility in the Middle East and North Africa,” says that although women’s rights activists have succeeded in securing women’s increased freedom in many countries in the region, old and new restrictions require women to seek permission from their male guardian – typically their father, brother, or husband – to move within their country, obtain a passport, or travel abroad. Human Rights Watch also found that in a number of countries, women cannot travel abroad with their children on an equal b...

To portray the extent of authoritarianism of the Egyptian state, it is often said that ″even″ feminists and women′s organisations are being targeted, since feminism and women′s issues are not generally perceived as a threat by authoritarian regimes. Yet that′s a flawed premise, argues Mozn Hassan