After a few months of hiatus, Sawt Al Niswa (Women’s Voice), our feminist magazine is back.

This time, it’s bigger, better and online, serving the Arab region and the world.

Originally launched on March 8, 2009 by a group of Lebanon-based feminist women to coincide with International Women’s Day, Sawt Al Niswa (SAN) appeared in three monthly editions, before the editorial staff realized they had to make some changes to be able to keep it running.

“We had very limited resources,” explains SAN editor Sara Abu Ghazal, “but we knew it had a lot of potential because it was highly in demand, and people kept asking us to make it available online. So after much thinking and tweaking, we decided to turn into an e-zine to make it more accessible, more frequent, and more interactive without burning ourselves out in the process.”

SAN will be updated regularly with posts, articles, features, opinion pieces and commentaries in both Arabic and English.

The website is designed to function as a pool of knowledge. It hosts the various social and political commentaries by women, while questioning the kind of feminist discourse they want to speak and express themselves through.

The voice(s) within the website contribute to the construction of an Arab feminist discourse, reflecting a spectrum of Arab reality (ies), the same way Nasawiya and friends in the region reflect on Arab feminism attempts.

Sawt Al Niswa welcomes submissions investigating any topic from a feminist lens by writers, artists and activists in the Arab World, be they articles, reports, opinion pieces, photo and/or written essays, and artwork.

Please contact the editors at editor[@]sawtalniswa.com for more information about submissions and guidelines.

We’ve designed a special website for this landmark event, so please visit it to learn more!

Feminism is today undergoing a worldwide re-assessment: What have been its achievements? Where has it failed? Has it remained necessary to the development of society, or has it outlived its usefulness?

Join us at AUB for the talks! More information coming soon.

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