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Author: Jennifer Holleis and Razan Salman

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A boy on a balcony looks through railings on which clothes are drying (photo: Mahmoud Khattab/Zumapress/picture-alliance)

Women in the Arab world

More violence, less income: Arab women bear the brunt of COVID-19

A new survey by Arab Barometer adds numbers to the narrative that COVID has led to a harsher reality for women in the Middle East and North Africa. By Jennifer Holleis and Razan SalmanMore

Ten years after the Arab Spring: Arab women's rights, a genuine lifestyle revolution?Femicide and coronavirus in the Maghreb: Algeria's ongoing war against women – #WeLostOneOfUsSexual violence in Egypt: Battling against a culture of silenceViolence against women: Femicide on the rise in TurkeyCOVID-19 pandemic in Libya: Conflict and coronavirus – Libyan women pay the higher price
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    Derna – difficult search for missing migrants

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    Tehran dismisses university lecturers

  4. Human rights in Asia

    Tajik women turn to polygamy to survive

  5. Ataturk's republic turns 100

    Turkey's enduring identity crisis

  6. Eklektik BerlinIstan meets Anatolian folk

    DJ Ipek's space-time continuum in sound

  1. Sex life in Saudi Arabia

    Lifting the veil

  2. Sex education

    The Arab Spring's greatest success?

  3. Bashar al-Assad in China

    Will Xi Jinping help to end Syria's isolation?

  4. Edward Said's "Orientalism"

    The Orient beyond Cliché

  5. Sex tourism in Egypt

    A bride for the summer

  6. Prostitution in the Islamic Republic of Iran

    Open-minded, loving... and desperate

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