Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Why, at a time when,  according  to Oxfam, "more women and children are killed in Gaza by Israeli military than any other recent conflict in a single year", should Israel suddenly care about the fate of Iranian women ? At a time when the entire world is aghast and nauseated at the Israeli  savagery in Gaza  and the rest of  Palestine , and as the Israeli army – fully funded and equipped by the US, UK  and  Germany  – is acting like a mad beast attacking  Lebanon ,  Syria , and  Yemen , with repeated provocations against Iran, why would Israel turn to Nafisi and how she assembled, as she claims, a few young Iranian women to read Vladimir Nabokov's  pornographic novel  with them? 

“ Two tyrants, Reza Shah and Ayatollah Khomeini focused on policing women’s bodies as the site of their respective ideologies of power and domination, with the bodies of women as the ideological battleground of their patriarchal practices. “What we are witnessing in Iran in the imposition of mandatory veiling is, of course, the reverse of what we see in much of Europe and North America where Muslim women are systematically harassed if they choose to wear the Muslim hijab.  For decades not a single day passes without a racist, misogynist, bigoted violent attack on Muslim women in Europe and the US.” How they became an ideological battleground

Middle East and North African countries carried out most global executions last year Meanwhile in  Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan …