The West Bank, and Palestine as a whole, faces a broken political system, rife with problems of representation and corruption. But addressing the issue of women in politics has the potential to revolutionize the way that politics are conducted overall.
Marriages of convenience, or even forced marriages, can thrive, essentially undetected, as those fleeing across the border are “integrated” into Syrian society, and into homes and pre-existing structures
As women flee the violence in Syria, they face abuses as refugees in the Middle East with some Arab men demanding marriage for them in order to “protect their virtue and honour”
Syria’s media war is being waged with gory images from the ground. But preconceived notions about subservient Middle Eastern women could lead the world to assume that there have been no women active on the ground in Syria. This is simply not true: we’re just not looking hard enough.
In this series of photographs by Yemeni photographer Bushra Almutawakel challenges the notion of identity in the Muslim world and illustrates how women could vanish into darkness and invisibility, step by step, under fundamentalist pressure and the full niqab.