Syria Opinion: "Women Have Been Essential in the Uprising" (Allaf)

"My People Are Rising" by Mohja Kahf

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For the last 10 months of the Syrian revolution, many skeptics have repeated the tired refrain that women have been absent from the uprising and that it seems to be a male-dominated (read “Islamist-leaning”) protest movement. Such generalizations, meant to discredit the revolution, do much injustice to the women who have lived the uprising from the start at the side of their compatriots.

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