Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

 Assad is preventing the return of refugees

Erased From History Related A poem

  From colonialism to Covid-19

 How Women Communists Challenged the Colonial Order

“ Not only did they inhabit the unseemly world of the nightlife district (stigmatised as a moral and literal stone’s throw away from Ezbekkiya’s red-light district), these women also came from poverty and were often uneducated - only learning to read in order to rehearse (and pioneer) Egyptian theatre - a far cry from bourgeois feminism.” Review of Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt’s Roaring '20s

  A policeman measures the distance between a woman's knee and the bottom of her bathing suit. Washington DC, 1922. Library of Congress, USA. Think of France banning burkini and the headscarf, for example. 

How Winston Churchill and the British government attacked the Greek Resistance and sowed the seeds of civil war