Women’s Rights and Revolution in Yemen: A Local Perspective

Saleem Haddad* | 2 Aug 2012

The role of women in Yemen’s Arab Spring has shocked international observers. In a country where the cultural, political, and economic gaps between men and women are some of the largest in the world, women did not simply ‘join’ the protests but were a leading force behind the cultural evolution that powered the revolutionary movement. In taking their politics... 

Notes from Kansastan: Egypt & the Convenient Myth of a Failed Arab Uprising

Massoud Hayoun* | 19 Jun 2012

Tahrir Square, on February 8, 2011 Egypt — and Arabs, in general — are destined to fail. So say the Western presses, so it must be true, right? Here’s the evidence that we’re dealing with a total lost cause: 1. Egypt’s Constitutional Court dissolved the lower house of Parliament Thursday (June 14), declaring the vote “unconstitutional,”...