XwhY: Credits

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Gender and Sexuality Reader
International Media Support (IMS) – Syria Programme
Editing and creative director: Lilas Hatahet
Artwork: Haisam Al Saiegh
Translation: Amr Khairy
In collaboration with Mustafa Haid, team lead at the time.

The reader is entirely composed of quotations and unedited texts chosen from the material published by the following partners:

Radio Arta

  • Celebrating World Women’s Day in Himo
  • Women’s Cycling Team
  • Women’s Sports in the region
  • The Success Story of Jumana in Table Games
  • International Women’s Day
  • Difficulties facing female journalists in the region
  • AANES laws regarding women rights
  • Arta participates in Media4Women campaign
  • The contribution of civil society organizations to raise awareness of women

Radio Rozana

  • Know yourself: Are you a man who supports women?
  • “With whom do I continue my life? I am lost” Share and advice Qamar
  • Do you agree to criminalizing marital rape by law?
  • Testimonies of “Anti Qaddaha – You can survive this” Campaign
  • Women and the confrontation of violence… between the injustice of society and lacking protection alternatives
  • Do you know what is homophobia and why it happens?
  • Syrian women broke the wall of silence and confronted society with their desires
  • My sister and me had the same share in inheritance… No difference between male and female
  • Forbidden to women! Syrian law against women.
  • Do you know? The Arab world outlaws homosexuality
  • Born from frustration and failure: two girls achieve a success that promises a better future
  • Did Syrian NGOs empower women to enter the labour market?
  • Women labour in al-Raqqa, harassment-dipped bread
  • Cries of Syrian women: Working is our right

Enab Baladi

  • Children prey to violence in northern Syria: between social customs and claims of liberation, any chances to save them?
  • How should the parents act if their children are sexually harassed?
  • Syrian and Yazidi trials: Why victim’s lawyers want sexual violence considered
  • Is beIN Sports spreading a culture of harassment and sexism?
  • After Shamima’s case, controversy in the UK around the government’s hold over Houl detainees’ data
  • Sexual violence as a “weapon of war”… efforts to reduce the impacts of its stigma
  • On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women: over 28 thousand victims among Syrian women
  • Grievances of women in Syria’s sectarian courts
  • Women drivers in Idlib defy society-based “mahram” law
  • Caught between rigid beliefs and toxic masculinity: Women in northwestern Syria
  • Sham Liberation governs virtue by putting restrictions on women
  • How does women in Idlib’s camps deal with the toilets embarrassment?
  • Syrian women’s representation: between zero percent and being the highest in the world
  • In Idlib: a training programme to support women in the labour market
  • Women excluded from COVID-related decision making

Syria Untold

  • The body, between event and memory
  • Mending what has been broken: Female detainees face social stigma after Syrian prison
  • Syrian women and girls, between reality and hopes
  • Sexual violence crimes and GBV in Syria
  • Nazik al-Ali: challenged ‘traditions’ and dreams of an ‘unknown’ future
  • A small café in Damascus

Syrian Female Journalists Network (SFJN)

  • A critical evaluation of how new
  • Syrian media covers domestic violence in Syria (2019-2021)
  • “Owning my body wasn’t an option, but I tried”
  • Images of the dispossession of the body, from my memoirs
  • Personal revelations between the scandalous and the concealed: they are still besieging my body and my thoughts
  • Syrian women’s path towards political participation… A supportive UN resolution based on breakdown and marginalization

Aljumhuriya

  • Ask Yamam: Get out of my head
  • Ask Yamam: swipe to the left
  • Ask Yamam: flirting
  • Aspects of sexual violence against women
  • The “cake incident” and policing women sexuality
  • Hijab in a plastic bag
  • A feminist gaze on the wrinkles of the body and humanity
  • The invisibles
  • Motherhood in our contemporary world
  • Do we have Islamic feminism in Syria?
  • Coming out: Pride month in Syrian eyes
  • From Assad’s to ISIS’ prisons: A Syrian Pride Month story
  • Transsexuality
  • How can intersectional feminism be Syrian?
  • About the common feminist agenda
  • Women and politics
  • Why doesn’t women demand their wages?
  • The hardships of leaving

Verify-Sy

  • Cyber violence against women in northern Syria

XwhY

XwhY is a reader of gender and sexuality related-content that represents the problems and challenges faced by women and LGBTQIA+ communities in Syria and the region.

xwhy cover with logo, an illustration of two people against a black background with a road and the XwhY logo in the top corner. Illustration by Haytham Al-Sayegh