Arab FeminismArticles

Hamza Bensouda examines how Morocco’s women’s movement built coalitions across ideological divisions and sustained pressure for family-law, constitutional, and anti-violence reform.

Written after Lebanon’s October 2019 uprising, Carmen Geha asks how women’s visible leadership in protest can become substantive power without being absorbed as symbolic representation.

This regional legal review compares constitutional guarantees, nationality, family law, violence protections, labor, and criminal law across Arab states, making visible both reform and persistent discrimination.

Built from reports by groups in thirty countries, Musawah’s global study argues that unequal Muslim family laws are historically constructed and therefore open to reform grounded in faith, rights, constitutions, and lived reality.