The 50%…

March 2026 Bulletin

They called it “the other half.” We call it the pulse.

Fifty percent is not a statistic. It is the hand that kneads the dough at dawn, the voice that sings freedom in the morning, the grandmother who remembers a village erased from the map, and the girl who carves her name on a classroom desk in rebellion. In our country, region, and context, women are not a footnote to history. They are its authors, memory keepers, and first responders.

Decades long, our realities have been measured against borrowed vocabularies: “empowerment,” “equality,” and “feminism” delivered in policy papers and dictated as resolutions. As if for our women to be heard in Nablus’s streets, Jerusalem’s alleys, or the villages of al-Naqab, they must use the language of conference rooms.

What if our truths shatter those (theirs) frames? What if gender here is a daily negotiation with land, labor, memory, faith, and survival? The 50% is no celebration bulletin or tallies of scars. It wrestles complexity’s heart. 

Here, voices glorify women as unyielding pillars, others unravel the toll of being one. Narratives of tenderness meet those of rage. This bulletin invites you to rethink. Unlearn equality’s Western mask for legitimacy, and question why our struggles need international stamps.

Our feminism, if we name it so, blooms from occupation’s thorn, exile’s wind, patriarchy’s chain, capitalism’s grind, love’s bloom and loss’s shadow, olive harvests and prison visits. Rooted in soil, bound to kin, … yet unfinished, flawed, and always alive. Fifty percent? Half the breath, the whole epic.

Welcome to a conversation that needs no permission.