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Why body positivity has become another way to control women

The shift from “fix your body” to “love yourself” is framed as feminist progress, but Esra Saleh explains how oppression is merely repackaged.

Esra Saleh

20 January, 2026

Selver Buyukkeles, 28, member of Mor Cati (Purple Roof) Women's Solidarity Feminist group, poses during an interview in Hatay on March 6, 2023, one month after a massive earthquake struck southeastern Turkey

Turkey-Syria earthquake

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Turkey's feminists help rebuild lives after the earthquake

Alessandra Bajec

16 May, 2023

The Patient

gender inequality

Live Story

The Impatient: A tapestry of gender inequality and struggle

Aisha Yusuff

26 April, 2023

An Unlasting Home

Kuwait

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An Unlasting Home: Interrogating identity and belonging

Hafsa Lodi

19 April, 2023

South Asian woman burnt out

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Why South Asian women are emotionally burnt out

Rabeea Saleem

28 March, 2023

FGM protests

FGM

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Female genital mutilation is still an issue and on the rise

Yomna Abdo

06 February, 2023

algeria protest

Algeria

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Algerian activists blame patriarchy for surge of femicides

Basma El Atti

01 November, 2022

Kamila Shamsie: Best of Friends

British-Pakistani

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Best of Friends: Dissecting a precarious female friendship

Hafsa Lodi

28 September, 2022

Men Dont Cry

The New Arab Book Club

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Men Don't Cry: The conflicted dualities of immigrant life

Aisha Yusuff

14 September, 2022

Women's rights and nationality laws [Getty Images]

MENA

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MENA's nationality laws continue to deny women equal rights

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Tasnim Nazeer

08 September, 2022

Cairo

For gender justice in Arab countries, abolish colonial laws!

Yousra Samir Imran

01 August, 2022

Malika Youstadraf's Something Strange, Like Hunger

The New Arab Book Club

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Malika Moustadraf's 'Something Strange, Like Hunger'

Ramona Wadi

27 July, 2022

Fem

The epidemic of femicide knows no borders

Ayman Khwaja

25 July, 2022

Jordanian women protesting outside the Parliament building to condemn the recent murders of women throughout the region.

Gender Based Violence

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Arab women demand action after femicides bleed society dry

Lara Bellone d’Altavilla

08 July, 2022

Moroccan women arrive to sit an exam on May 6, 2018, in the capital Rabat, to become a notary in Islamic law, known locally as an "Adoul", after the position was opened to women for the first time in Morocco [Getty Images]

Morocco

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Moroccan women petition to reform archaic inheritance law

Basma El Atti

08 July, 2022

Palestinian women west bank wall - Getty

The double oppression of Palestinian women

Emad Moussa

02 April, 2022

The words 'A woman was harassed here' is seen stenciled onto a raised stone flower bed in a street

Morocco

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'Psst psst': The problem of street harassment in Morocco

Yasmina Achlim

21 March, 2022