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‘I watched the bombs fall. I watched the mothers’: how do we grieve the children of Gaza?
ByHala Alyan September 3, 2025

Palestine is not a metaphor. And yet – I’ve superimposed every experience of my own mothering these last months on to PalestineThe last time I carried a life, I got to hear her heartbeat exactly three times before it stopped. It was my fifth pregnancy….

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Jobless, homeless and helpless without a man: Afghan women expelled by Iran into hands of the Taliban
ByFarshid Aram and Rad Radan, for Zan Times August 4, 2025

Those who fled Afghanistan fearing gender apartheid have been forced back to live in a society in which, without a male ‘guardian’, they cannot work or rent a home, leaving them in poverty and open to abuseSafia* thought she had finally found safety …

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Afghanistan | Ayatollah Ali Khamenei | Benjamin Netanyahu | Donald Trump | Gaza | Gender | Global development | Iran | Iran's nuclear programme | Israel | Israel–Iran War | Middle East and north Africa | Migration and development | Nuclear weapons | Palestinian territories | Petrol prices | Refugees | Society | South and central Asia | Taliban | Women | Women under the Taliban | Women's rights and gender equality | World news

Jobless, homeless and helpless without a man: Afghan women expelled by Iran into hands of the Taliban
ByFarshid Aram and Rad Radan, for Zan Times August 4, 2025

Those who fled Afghanistan fearing gender apartheid have been forced back to live in a society in which, without a male ‘guardian’, they cannot work or rent a home, leaving them in poverty and open to abuseSafia* thought she had finally found safety …

Read More Jobless, homeless and helpless without a man: Afghan women expelled by Iran into hands of the Taliban
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Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s ‘rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy | Mona Eltahawy
ByMona Eltahawy June 19, 2025

As his troops slaughter civilians in Gaza, he claims to be standing up for Iranian women’s autonomy. He is far from the first warmonger to do soThe Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has invoked the Iranian regime’s heinous women’s rights reco…

Read More Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s ‘rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy | Mona Eltahawy
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei | Benjamin Netanyahu | Donald Trump | Feminism | Gaza | Iran | Iran's nuclear programme | Israel | Israel–Iran War | Middle East and north Africa | Nuclear weapons | Palestinian territories | Petrol prices | Women | World news

Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s ‘rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy | Mona Eltahawy
ByMona Eltahawy June 19, 2025

As his troops slaughter civilians in Gaza, he claims to be standing up for Iranian women’s autonomy. He is far from the first warmonger to do soThe Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has invoked the Iranian regime’s heinous women’s rights reco…

Read More Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s ‘rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy | Mona Eltahawy