Loud & Clear

Loud Enough to Be Punished, Quiet Enough to Survive
A voice is a form of power, and when it rises from the throat,...

Palestinian Women’s Hidden Wounds: The Violence of Being Read as Resilient
They do not call it sadnessIn many Palestinian women’s accounts, sadness feels too small,...

Gaza’s Women: Unbroken Pillars of Survival Two Years On
Two years after the war, the catastrophe in Gaza is no longer an exceptional...

Palestinian Women, Unfiltered
Us Palestinian women do not wait for permission to speak. We speak in courtrooms...

The Absence of Presence and the Psychology of Representation
Following the recent protests in Sakhnin, I came across a photo on social media...

Palestinian Women and Political Imagination Beyond Genocide
Political imagination is the most fiercely contested ground in the Palestinian struggle. While international...

Fifty Percent, Conditional: Women and the Politics of Voice
Women are often counted as half, yet heard on conditions. This essay examines how...

Studying Through the War: The Story of Nebal and Mariam
When Nebal and Mariam speak about Beit Hanoun, they do so carefully, sometimes haltingly,...

Do Arabs Wear Red?
Heart disease kills more women than any other condition worldwide. It causes about one...

Unspoken Rules of Speech Around Money
The familiar figure the world recognizes when it looks at Palestinian women is one-dimensional....

From Wadi Salib to Revolution: Palestinian Women and the Struggle for Liberation
Growing up in Haifa, Wadi Salib was part of my everyday geography. This is...

Peace over Coffee
They didn’t speak the same language. In fact, they did not even share one....